T H E J O S E P H E A R N S H AW E N G I N E E R I N G C O M P A N Y , 1 8 6 0 - 1 8 9 5Much of the early work performed by Joseph Earnshaw, and the Joseph Earnshaw Engineering Company, was surveys, particularly in the downtown basin of Cincinnati. As Cincinnati grew, properties within the city had to be surveyed before private and public properties could be constructed. The Earnshaws took on an abundance of survey work. The firms clients were private, public, and governmental, the largest being the city of Cincinnati. In 1848, Joseph Earnshaw assisted the city surveyor, Randall Ricky, with the survey of the merchant L.L. Hardings property, which was located on the north side of Front Street between Race and Vine Street. The job paid $2.50. 69Another of Joseph Earnshaws early surveys was for Hamilton County Surveyor J.H. Gilbert on June 3, 1862, establishing the border between the county and Clermont County. 70Earnshaw also did a survey for Israel Ludlow, a former Cincinnati surveyor, subdividing his property located west of Spring Grove Cemetery in the Northside neighborhood just north of the Mill Creek and the Cincinnati Hamilton Dayton Railroad. 71Through these early surveys, Joseph Earnshaw built his reputation within the community of civil engineering in Cincinnati, allowing him to establish the Joseph Earnshaw Civil Engineering Company in 1880. Thomas B. Punshon had a hand in many of these early surveys, and though he wasnt made partner until 1895, his name is on many of the survey plats during this time period, proving he was already vital to the Joseph Earnshaw Engineering Company.As a surveyor, Joseph Earnshaw was in the right place at the right time: Many of his surveys were conducted within Cincinnatis basin and developing areas of Mt. Auburn, Clifton, Clifton Heights, OBryonville, Mt. Adams, Walnut Hills, Mt. Lookout, and within the Mill Creek Valley, showing the progression of the development of Cincinnati. Many original landowners needed surveys as they subdivided their land for further development. Earnshaws clients included E.T. Kidd, owner of the Cincinnati Gazette Company; Robert Hosea, a wholesale grocer; John Kilgour, vice president of Franklin Bank; and Jason Evans, owner of Evans and Company and a prominent banker. 72Newly developed transportation innovations of the second half of the 19th century enabled residents, not just the citys elite, to escape the congested 26