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Male, born 1890-08-15, died 1935-11-13
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Washington State Highway Department
Résumé
Engineer, Washington State Department of Highways, Olympia, WA, -1935; Elwell served as a significant bridge designer for the State of Washington. He left his position due to illness in 1935.
Relocation
Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Elwell came to the US as a youth and attended high school in Zanesville, OH. He got work in WA State on a surveying team in Yakima, WA, in 1908. He worked throughout WA State in the 1910s-1935.
He entered a Milwaukee, OR, sanitarium in 07/1935, and died there on 11/13/1935. He was buried in the Masonic Cemetery in Tumwater, WA.
Parents
He was the son of Lewis Morton and Martha Jane Kirkwood Elwell, both American citizens residing in Scotland.
PCAD id: 6421
| Name | Date | City | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| State of Washington, Highway Department, Deception Pass Bridge, Deception Pass, WA | 1934-1935 | Deception Pass | WA |
