Civil Engineer
Centurion, 1895–1902
Born 20 June 1838 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died 24 November 1902 in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Buried Laurel Hill Cemetery
, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Proposed by William Rich Hutton and Charles Macdonald
Elected 2 March 1895 at age fifty-six
Century Memorial
The career of Joseph M. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, was a marked one. For more than twenty years after his graduation at the Rensselaer Polytechnic, the cherished Alma Mater of so many Centurions, he was engaged in various grades of engineering work on the Pennsylvania Railroad. As an architect he was associated with the design and construction of the Main Building and Machinery Hall at the Exposition of 1876, a novel construction at the time. His latest engineering labors were connected with the Commission that recommended the subway system in process of building in this city. He was for many years President of the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and of the Institution of Civil Engineers of London, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Edward Cary
1903 Century Association Yearbook
