3 C I R C L E O F I N F L U E N C E Not only did Joseph Earnshaw influence the city of Cincinnati, he also influenced the development of local individuals, including his brothers, engineering partner Thomas Punshon, and Daniel Carter Beard, pictured left, who founded the Boy Scouts of America in 1910.After graduating from Worralls Academy in 1869, the 19-year-old Beard promptly began working in Earnshaws engineering and surveying office. In his 1939 autobiography titled Hardly A Man Is Now Alive, Beard stated, Earnshaw looked over my papers and signed me up on his force at nothing in a week. In the beginning 20this position was in the nature of an apprenticeship, although it was not called by that name, for he received nothing for his services at first.21 When Beard started in Earnshaws office he had visions of immediately being set to work directing large and important engineering projects such as the construction of the trans-continental railroad or building great bridges over the nations major waterways. 22Instead Beard was employed as a rodman supplied with a sledge-hammer and a bundle of oak stakes, not even entrusted with the end of a surveyors chain. 23Beard describes the work he performed as work that hurt, and many times he felt like sitting on the hillside and crying with mortification, had he not been ashamed to do so. 24Looking back at the several years he worked for Joseph Earnshaw, Beard called it the best training of his life. It taught him democracy, personal fitness, and wellbeing, and to not only endure the hardships of the trail but to enjoy them.25Most importantly, Beard learned to take care of himself under any and all conditions, and to respect men, not for their social position, but for their character.26The lessons Beard learned while driving stakes into the hot and dusty limestone ground, under the boiling sun are represented in his 1882 book, American Boys Handy Book, and are the backbone beliefs of the Boy Scouts of America, which Beard founded in 1910. 27T H E E A R N S H AW B R O T H E R SJosephs brothers Henry and John B. were also prominent figures in Cincinnati during the second half of the 19th century. Henry (1826-1886) also worked alongside his father and brother surveying Spring Grove Cemetery in 18