Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Alfred Noble
Civil Engineer
Centurion, 1905–1914
Proposed by
George Gibbs and Theodore Cooper
George Gibbs and Theodore Cooper
born
August 7, 1844
Livonia, Michigan
Livonia, Michigan
died
April 19, 1914
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
elected
December 2, 1905
Age sixty-one
Age sixty-one
buried
Woodlawn Cemetery,
Bronx, New York
Bronx, New York
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
