. The railroad and engineering journal . S_2^^^^£=^ J-lV-c~J CaiJE ■■■Jinn. THE WITHEROW BLOWING ENGINE. Cotton & Iron Company, Florence, Ala.; the others will soonbe shipped to Middleborough, Bristol, and other places. OBITUARY. CoLONEi- William H. died suddenly in Cleveland,O., December 31, of heart disease. He was born In Chester,N. H., in 1828, and after an ordinary school education and ashort course in engineering he found employment as a land sur-veyor in Wisconsin, then a new country. From Wisconsin hewent to California, and after engaging for a short time in min-ing, in 1849 he
. The railroad and engineering journal . S_2^^^^£=^ J-lV-c~J CaiJE ■■■Jinn. THE WITHEROW BLOWING ENGINE. Cotton & Iron Company, Florence, Ala.; the others will soonbe shipped to Middleborough, Bristol, and other places. OBITUARY. CoLONEi- William H. died suddenly in Cleveland,O., December 31, of heart disease. He was born In Chester,N. H., in 1828, and after an ordinary school education and ashort course in engineering he found employment as a land sur-veyor in Wisconsin, then a new country. From Wisconsin hewent to California, and after engaging for a short time in min-ing, in 1849 he made surveys for a wagon road across the RockyMountains. In 1853 he had charge of a party which surveyedthe first line across the Sierra Nevada for a Pacific the war broke out he entered the Fourth Wisconsin Reg-iment, but was appointed to the Engineer Corps, where he re-mained throughout the war, being employed constantly in pre- prominent member of the American Society of Civil En-gineers, and was highly esteemed by his associates. Selah Chamberlain,
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