. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. ute, at Troy, NewYork, and was there graduated, in 1861, with the degree of C. leaving the Rensselaer Institute he engaged actively inhis profession, commencing as rodman on the NesquehoningValley Railroad, and becoming eventually an assistant engineerand topographer, in which latter capacity he made an elaboratetopographical map of the middle and southern anthracite coal-fields, with their various outlets to market. In June, 1862, hewas detailed as an assistant on the repairs of the Lehigh Canal,which had been damaged almost to oblite
. New York state's prominent and progressive men;. ute, at Troy, NewYork, and was there graduated, in 1861, with the degree of C. leaving the Rensselaer Institute he engaged actively inhis profession, commencing as rodman on the NesquehoningValley Railroad, and becoming eventually an assistant engineerand topographer, in which latter capacity he made an elaboratetopographical map of the middle and southern anthracite coal-fields, with their various outlets to market. In June, 1862, hewas detailed as an assistant on the repairs of the Lehigh Canal,which had been damaged almost to obliteration by the greatfreshet of that month. In the spring of 1863 he entered theservice of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad, which had justbeen leased by the Pennsylvania Railroad, and, attached to thestaff of the general manager, attended to various miscellaneousduties to which he was detailed. In 1865 he became engineer ofbridges on the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, planningthe International Bridge over the Niagara River at Black Rock 18. ^^.-^^s^ ALFRED P. BOLLER 19 and the Cattaraugus Viaduct — works never carried out becauseof the collapse of the railroad company in the same year. In the fall of 1865 he entered the service of the Hudson RiverRailroad as chief engineer, which place he resigned to go intothe iron business with Samuel Milliken (Milliken & Boiler) asagents of the Phoenix Iron Company in New York and Eng-land. In 1870 he became vice-president and engineer of thePhillipsburg Manufacturing Company, which lasted until thepanic of 1873. During the existence of that company numerousraihoad and highway bridges were built by Mr. Boiler. Since the failure of that concern, Mr. Boiler has been practis-ing as engineer and contractor up to the present time, with hisoffice for over twenty-five years at 71 Broadway, New this time he has been engaged on much miscellaneouswork : as consulting engineer of the Zaza Raihoad, Cuba; of thePort au Prince (horse)
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