Alfred P. Boller

Alfred Pancoast Boller (born February 23, 1840 in Philadelphia , † December 9, 1912 in East Orange ) was an American civil engineer, known as a bridge builder.

Boller studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . From 1863 to 1866 he was with various railroad companies, most recently with the Hudson River Railroad Company. He gave up to become agent for New York of the Phoenix Iron Company and then vice president and engineer of the Phillipsburg Manufacturing Company. From 1871 he was a consulting engineer in New York. He made some of the largest bridges in the United States at the time, including several drawbridges over the Harlem River (bridge on 7th Avenue, 8th Avenue, Madison Avenue) in New York. Also the Albany and Greenbush Bridge, the Arthur Kill Bridge, the bridge over the St. Louis River in Duluth, the bridge over the Thames River in New London. He was the chief engineer of the New York Elevated Railroad. In 1898 he founded an engineering office with Henry W. Hodge in New York, Boller & Hodge (later Boller, Hodge & Baird). They designed and built bridges (such as the bridge over the Arkansas River in Little Rock, various bridges in New York, the railroad bridge over the Monangahela River in Pittsburgh and over the Ohio River in Mingo Junction, the Montreal River Viaduct, the bridge over Connecticut River near Saybrook and the bridge over the Mississippi in St. Lonin), advised on buildings such as the Singer Building and the Metropolitan Life Tower , advised the city of New York, the US government and many railroad companies, including in Central and South America and in the Caribbean.

He was vice president of the American Society of Civil Engineers .

literature

• Obituary in the Minutes of the Proc. of the ICE, January 1914, first page, digitized , complete