George Bomford [SEP] place of death
the Civil War.
Death.
George Bomford died in Boston, Massachusetts 25 March 1848 while on army business and was buried in a tomb in the family mausoleum on the "Kalorama estate" in Washington, D.C. In 1892, due to construction of Massachusetts Avenue on the site of the estate, the remains of George Bomford, his wife Clara, and son Henry Baldwin Bomford, were moved to Rock Creek Cemetery and placed under one headstone.
Notes.
- "National Genealogical Society Quarterly" (NGSQ)
case attorney to Colonel George Bomford's use of the estate for his own purposes.
Bomford was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1841. In 1842 he became inspector of arsenals, ordnance, arms, and munitions of war. He held both positions until his death in 1848.
In 1811, Bomford developed the first heavy coastal defense howitzers that would come to be referred to as Columbiads.
Career Columbiad gun.
The heavy coastal defense howitzers designed by Bomford combined attributes of the gun