Male, born 12/1884, died 10/05/1918

Associated with the firm network

Whitehouse and Honeyman, Architect and Engineer


Professional History

Partner, Whitehouse and [Bruce R.] Honeyman, Architect and Engineer, Portland, OR, 1908-1909; Whitehouse and Honeyman attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the same time; Captain, U.S. Army Engineers, 313th Engineer Regiment, 88th Infantry Division, France, 1917-1918;

Education

Portland Academy, Portland, OR, c. 1902; B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 1906;

Personal

Honeyman was born and raised in Portland, OR; in 1900, the family lived at 63 North 20th Street in Portland, in a house that they owned; at the time, they were prosperous enough to maintain a cook and servant, both Swedish immigrant women. Bruce attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, returning to Portland in 1906; According to the 1910 U.S. Census, the family (minus Walter) continued to live at 63 North 20th Street; Bruce and Ruth had married and their spouses lived there as well, and Kenneth Honeyman also resided with them. They had taken in a Flemish boarder and had one servant. Burce and Marian Honeyman moved to Saint Paul, MN, c. 1912, a city in which she had roots; he died prematurely of pneumonia in France during World War I and was buried at the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Plot E, Row 23, Grave 30, Romagne, France.

His father was Walter J. Honeyman, (born 09/1849 in Scotland-died before 1910), who emigrated to the U.S. in 1881. By 1900, he had been naturalized. His wife was Jessie M. Honeyman, also Scottish, (born 06/1852), who came to the U.S. one year after her husband. Walter and Jessie had 6 children, 4 of whom were alive in 1900. The eldest, Arthur (born 07/1880), had been born in Scotland, as well. After the clan had reestablished itself in Portland, OR, Bruce, Ruth A. [Barker] (born 06/1887 in OR) and Kenneth (born 09/1889) came in succession.

He married Marian B. Honeyman (born c. 1887 in MN); her father had been born in IL, her mother in IN.

Honeyman had a son and daughter.

Honeyman--an engineer--practiced with Morris H. Whitehouse in Portland, OR, briefly during 1908-1909;


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