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HENRY MICHAEL DOUGHERTY
DOUGHERTY, HENRY MICHAEL, Civil Engineer, Los Angeles, Cal., was born in Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 2, 1877, the son of John Dougherty and Clara (Covert) Dougherty. He married Lucy Winifred Taft at Burlington, Vt., in June, 1902. They had three children, John Taft, Margaret Lois and Dorothy Anne Dougherty. (The first two survived.)
Mr. Dougherty received his education in private schools in the East. In 1894, he entered the Univ. of Penna., remaining there two years, and in 1897 was appointed a Cadet at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y. Graduating, Feb., 1901, he entered the Army with the rank of Second Lieut., and served until May, 1903, then resigned, following the loss of his suit for mandamus to compel the then Secretary of War to rank officers of the Artillery Corps according to the law of 1901.
Entering civil life, Mr. Dougherty, as Engineer in Charge for the N. Y. Continental Jewell Filtration Co., supervised the building of Oak Lane Reservoir, at Philadelphia; building of the Charleston, S. C., Dry Dock and other construction at the Charleston Navy Yard. In 1908 he became associated with J. G. White & Co., Inc., general consulting and contracting engineers of New York, and first represented them in the construction of the Idaho-Oregon Light & Power Co.’s development at Copperfield, Ore. In 1909 he was sent to California in charge of betterment construction for the San Joaquin Light & Power Co. Upon completion of this he constructed the Midway Gas Co.’s natural gas pipe line from the Midway oil fields of California to Los Angeles, 110 miles, and one of the principal enterprises under way in Southern California in 1912-13, which, upon completion, will form an important industrial improvement.
He is member, American Association of Civil Engineers and Los Angeles Athletic Club.
Transcribed
by Joyce Rugeroni.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 509,
International News Service, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles,
Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2010 Joyce
Rugeroni.
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