San Francisco
County
WALTER
LEROY HUBER
Walter
Leroy Huber, civil engineer, was born in San Francisco California, on January
4, 1883; son of M.F. and Celia (Dill) Huber. He received the degree of B.S. in
Civil Engineering from the University of California in 1905.
Mr. Huber was assistant engineer
with J. D. Galloway, San Francisco, 1905-06; chief structural designer with
Howard & Galloway, 1906-08; chief engineer for supervising architect,
University of California, 1908-10; district engineer for United States Forest
Service, in California and Nevada, 1910-13; in private practice since 1913 and
in partnership with Edward M. Knapik since 1941. Mr.
Huber has engaged in hydroelectric, hydraulic and structural work and
valuations throughout the Western United States; consultant on Hogan, Big
Tujunga, Morris, and many other dams; consulting engineer for State Department
of Public Works, California, on many projects, including San Gabriel Dam No.
One, and Central Valley Project; consulting engineer for California Debris
Commission on arch dams; member of Board of Consulting Engineers of United
States War Department on flood control projects on Los Angeles, San Gabriel and
Santa Ana Rivers, including Prado, Sepulveda, Brae, Fullerton and Santa Fe
dams. He was structural engineer on the 4-story underground garage occupying
all of Union Square, San Francisco; special consultant on the earthquake
resistant design of many large structures; member of Advisory Committee to
Bureau of Building Inspection, San Francisco, 1930-37; regional engineering
advisor to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1932-33; special consultant to
United States War Department on structures, water supplies, etc.; engineer for
Hammond General Hospital, DeWitt General Hospital and other military works;
1942-43; engineer for shop buildings, Hunters Point, Dry Docks, United States
Navy, 1944.
Member of California Forest Study
Committee, California State Chamber of Commerce, 1926-38, and Governor’s
Advisory Engineering Committee on California State Water Resources Development,
1932; regional water consultant for National Resources Planning Board, 1934-43.
He holds membership in the American
Society of Civil Engineers (director, 1922-24; vice president, 1926-27;
president, 1952-53); American Concrete Institute; Seismological Society;
Society of California Pioneers; California Historical Society; Phi Sigma Kappa,
Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, and Chi Epsilon; Sierra Club (director 1915-48; vice
president, 1922-24; president, 1925-26; honorary vice president, 1948 to date);
Commonwealth, Engineers, and American Alpine Clubs. Mr. Huber is the author of
papers on mountaineering, building and dam construction, earthquake effects on
structures, etc.
On November 11, 1941, Mr. Huber
married Alberta Mann Reed. Their home is at 19 Presidio Terrace, San Francisco,
California.
Offices: 1 Montgomery Street, San Francisco 4,
California.
Transcribed By: Cecelia M. Setty.
Source: “Eminent Californians 1953”,
by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Page 333, C. W. Taylor Publ.,
Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2014 Cecelia M. Setty.
San Francisco County Biographies