Résumé

Civil Engineer, Illinois Telephone Construction Company, Chicago, IL, 1904-1906.

Engineer and Assistant Superintendent of Construction, James Stewart and Company, New Orleans, LA, 1906.

Superintendent of Construction, General Fireproofing Company, New Orleans, LA, 1907.

Assistant Engineer, City of Chicago, IL, Chicago, IL, 1908-1909.

Superintendent of Construction, Robert W. Lytle and Company, Chicago, IL, 1909-1910.

Town Site Engineer, Texas City Company, Texas City, TX, 1910. This area was developed intensively after 1893, when the Myers Brothers Investment Company of Duluth, MN, operated by Benjamin F., Henry H. and Jacob R. Myers, along with fellow Duluth residentCaptain Augustus Benjamin Wolvin (1857-1932), purchased 10,000 acres of land near Shoal Point on Galveston Island for use as an ocean-going port. They produced a township plat for Texas City on 05/17/1893 and began dredging near the site in 1894. By 1898, the Duluth syndicate developed a railroad spur line to serve their new port. In 1905, the US Federal Government named Texas City an official port of customs sites, and by 1908, a larger oil refinery, that of the Texas City Refining Company, opened a new facility here. Residential real estate was platted here to provide homes for port and refinery workers by about 1910. (See U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District, Draft Evironmental Impact Statement for Texas City's Proposed Shoal Point Container Terminal, Volume 1, [Galveston: US Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston District, 2002], p. 3-127.)

Partner, Putnam-Stone Construction Company, General Contractors, Pasadena, CA, 1911-1916.

Superintendent of Construction, Mesmer and Rice, Los Angeles, CA, 1916-1917.

Assistant Engineer, Wright Martin Aircraft Corporation, 1917-1918.

Designing Engineer, Edward L. Mayberry, Jr., Architect and Engineer, Los Angeles, CA, 1918-at least 1922. (See John William Leonard, Who's Who in Engineering, 1922-1923, [Brooklyn: John W. Leonard Corporation, 1922], p. 1022.)

Professional Activities

Member, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Member, Society of American Military Engineers.

College

Coursework, Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, c. 1895-1897,

B.S., Civil Engineeing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, 1901.

Parents

His parents were Joseph Watson Putnam and Helen Elise Peabody.

Spouse

He married Katherine Lee scobey, 04/22/1908, in Chicago, IL.

Children

He and Katherine had one daughter, Barbara.

• Bay Saint Louis, MS (Architect's Birth)
  Bay Saint Louis, MS 39520

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