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ADOLF H. KOEBIG, JR.
KOEBIG, ADOLF H., Jr., Civil Engineer, Los Angeles, California, was born at San Bernardino, California, August 5, 1886. He is the son of A. H. Koebig, Sr., and Helene M. ((Kieffer) Koebig.
He received his primary education in the public schools of San Bernardino and Harvard Military Academy, located at Los Angeles. He attended the University of Southern California in 1901, and for two years subsequently was a student at Leland Stanford University in
California. He then went to Amherst College to specialize in geology and mechanics.
Upon the completion of his studies he returned to Los Angeles, where his father had been in business for a number of years, and was immediately appointed assistant engineer of the Los Angeles Harbor Company, then engaged in heavy construction work. During the year that he continued with the company took an active part in building the harbor at San Pedro, Port of Los Angeles.
Leaving the harbor company, he went into business with his father under the firm name of Koebig & Koebig, acting as his chief lieutenant, and for about three years was busy in various important construction works.
Early in 1909 he was appointed Reinforced Concrete Engineer and Inspector for the Los Angeles Board of Public Works and remained in that capacity for eight months, resigning to become assistant engineer of the Ramona Power and Irrigation Company. At the beginning of 1910 he became assistant engineer to his father in the work of the Chucawalla Development Company, a vast irrigation project in California, Arizona and Nevada, in which the elder Koebig is the consulting engineer. Mr. Koebig is a member of the Engineers and Architects’ Association of Los Angeles and the University Club.
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Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Press
Reference Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page 473, International News Service, New York, Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta.
1913.
© 2010 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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