Everett Edgar King

Everett Edgar King (born January 17, 1877 in Warren , † July 16, 1968 in Urbana , Illinois ) was an American railroad engineer .

Life

Family and education

Everett Edgar King, born in the small town of Warren in the US state of Indiana, son of John Walter King and Margaret Ellen Foreman King, turned to studying civil engineering after completing compulsory schooling . King acquired in 1901 the degree of Bachelor of Science at the Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute in the State of Indiana. In 1910 he received a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University , in 1911 he graduated with a Master of Civil Engineering (MCE) from Cornell University .

Everett Edgar King, Christian Science and Republican , Freemason and Rotarian , married Anna May Owen on October 8, 1903. King died in Urbana in the summer of 1968 at the age of 91.

Professional background

King had worked as a civil engineer for the Ferrocarril Central Mexicano in Mexico City since 1901 , and in 1902 he changed to the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad Company in Cincinnati in a self-employed capacity . Since 1903 he was employed as a civil engineer for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company in Chicago . In 1907 he followed a call as Professor of Civil Engineering at the Oklahoma Territorial Agricultural and Mechanical (A&M) College in Stillwater , 1910 he resigned.

After a one-year post - graduate course combined with an assistant position at Cornell University, he went to Ames as Professor of Railway Engineering at Iowa State College . In 1918 he moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Professor of Railway Engineering , and in 1945 he retired .

Everett Edgar King was one of the foremost railroad engineers in the United States of his day. He was an elected member of the American Society of Civil Engineers , the American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association, the Association of American Railroads (Signal Section), the American Society for Engineering Education , the Tau Beta Pi, the Phi Kappa Phi, the Theta Tau, the Sigma Xi, and the Alpha Sigma Phi.

Fonts

• Rapid transit in Chicago. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1911
• Railway signaling. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1st ed., New York, 1921
• A test of the durability of signal relay contacts. University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., 1932
• Non-pressure treatments of round northern white cedar timbers with creosote. A report of an investigation. University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill., 1948

literature

• Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women. : Volume 28 (1954-1955), Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1955, p. 1465.
• Who's Who in America: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women. : Volume 33 (1964-1965). Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1964, p. 1098.
• Who was Who in America. Volume 5: 1969-1973. Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, NJ, 1973, p. 397.

Web links

• Everett Edgar King in the database of Find a Grave (English)