Editing John A. Roebling (section)

==Death==
[[File:Roebling family plot, Riverview Cemetery, Trenton New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|The Roebling family plot in [[Riverview Cemetery (Trenton, New Jersey)|Riverview Cemetery]]]]
In 1867, Roebling started design work on what is now called the [[Brooklyn Bridge]], spanning the [[East River]] in New York. On June 28, 1869, at [[Fulton Ferry (ferry)|Fulton Ferry]], while he was standing at the edge of a dock, working on fixing the location where the bridge would be built, his foot was crushed by an arriving ferry. His injured toes were amputated. He refused further medical treatment and wanted to cure his foot by "[[Water cure (therapy)|water therapy]]" (continuous pouring of water over the wound). His condition deteriorated. He died on July 22, 1869, of [[tetanus]] at the home of his son on [[Hicks Street]], in [[Brooklyn Heights]].<ref name=obit>{{cite news |title=John A. Roebling, the Engineer |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E05E2DC133AEF34BC4B51DFB1668382679FDE |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 23, 1869 |access-date=2015-11-09 }}</ref> It was 24 days after the accident.<ref>McCullough, David, ''The Great Bridge'', 1982, p. 91</ref>  His son [[Washington Roebling]] was later named chief engineer of the project, but due to his further incapacity to work after suffering from [[Decompression sickness|'the bends']] while in a caisson on the river bed, his wife [[Emily Warren Roebling]] took over the project and it was completed in 1883. John Roebling is buried in the [[Riverview Cemetery (Trenton, New Jersey)|Riverview Cemetery]] in [[Trenton, New Jersey]].