1. Jared Mansfield was an American teacher, mathematician and surveyor.
10 Facts About Jared Mansfield
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Jared Mansfield's career was shaped by two interventions by President Thomas Jefferson.
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Again at Jefferson's appointment, Jared Mansfield served as the Surveyor General of the United States from 1803 to 1812, charged with extending the survey of United States land in the Northwest Territory.
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Jared Mansfield was born in New Haven, Connecticut, son of a sea captain, Stephen Jared Mansfield of New Haven and Hannah Beach of Wallingford, Connecticut.
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Jared Mansfield entered Yale in 1773, but his father died suddenly near the end of his freshman year.
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Jared Mansfield's Essays included sections on determining longitude and latitude, which would be useful in improving precision in surveying.
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Jared Mansfield was told to "survey Ohio and lands north of the Ohio River", with later extensions to Indiana Territory and Illinois Territory.
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In 1816, Jared Mansfield was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
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Jared Mansfield returned to West Point in 1814 as professor of mathematics and natural and experimental philosophy, continuing in this position until his retirement in 1828.
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Jared Mansfield arranged for Thomas Jefferson to sit at Monticello for the painter Thomas Sully, and the resulting full-length portrait now hangs in the USMA Museum.