Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Theodore Voorhees
Civil Engineer
Centurion, 1891–1916
Proposed by
John M. Toucey, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, and George S. Greene Jr.
John M. Toucey, Cornelius Vanderbilt II, and George S. Greene Jr.
born
June 4, 1847
New York (Manhattan), New York
New York (Manhattan), New York
died
March 11, 1916
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
elected
November 7, 1891
Age forty-four
Age forty-four
buried
Saint Paul’s Episcopal Churchyard,
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
Century Memorial
Theodore Voorhees, president of the Reading, was one of the ablest railroad men in the country. Through study and through long experience, he had equipped himself for the handling of problems of transportation. One of the distinguished graduates of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, it was through the engineering department that he rose to eminence in the management of railways.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1917 Century Association Yearbook
