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J. A. Britton

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Joseph Albert Britton (1839–1929),[1] most commonly known as J.A. Britton, was a builder of bridges in Indiana. He created many works that survive and are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.[2][3]

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According to a Historic American Engineering Record record, Britton was born in 1839 near Rockville, Indiana.[1] He learned carpentry from his father, but began his career as an attorney with a practice in Lawrence, Kansas.[4] In 1879 he returned to Parke County and switched his focus to carpentry and bridgebuilding.[4] After Britton's primary regional competitor J. J. Daniels retired in 1904, Britton was engaged to build most of the bridges in Parke County between 1904 and 1917.[4]

Throughout his 33-year bridgebuilding career Britton built approximately 40 bridges in three Indiana counties: Parke, Putnam, and Vermillion.[1]

Work credits

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Cox Ford Bridge

Works (credit) include:

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Narrows Bridge (Indiana)
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Family

J. A. Britton's son, Eugene Britton, built the Bowsher Ford Covered Bridge, a single span Burr Arch truss covered bridge structure, in 1915.[5][6] On February 18, 1909, Eugene Britton was elected a director of the newly formed National Reserve Bank of the City of New York.[7]

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