Civil Engineer
Centurion, 1905–1914
Born 7 August 1844 in Livonia, Michigan
Died 19 April 1914 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by George Gibbs and Theodore Cooper
Elected 2 December 1905 at age sixty-one
Proposer of:
Century Memorial
Alfred Noble, a famous engineer, as a youth served for three years in the Army of the Potomac. Graduating as civil engineer from the University of Michigan in 1870, he was shortly put in charge of improvements in the St. Mary’s Falls Canal and River. He was next General Assistant Engineer of the Northern Pacific, and later Chief Engineer of the Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was a member of the Nicaragua Canal Board of ’95, of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and of the Board of Consulting Engineers of the Panama Canal, and President of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1903. A modest, able man, his name expressed his character.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1915 Century Association Yearbook