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JEROME NEWMAN
NEWMAN, JEROME, Civil Engineer, San
Francisco, California, was born
in that city, April 16, 1862, the son of Edward Newman and Johanna (Bendan) Newman. He
married Louise J. Moore at Tacoma, Wash.,
September 24, 1892, and they have two children, Grace and Edward Newman.
Mr.
Newman graduated at the University of California
in 1883, and afterwards spent three years in scientific study at the Polytechnic
School at Charlottenburg, Germany.
Returning
to San Francisco, Mr. Newman was in
the service of the Southern Pacific Railroad for a year,
and for two years more was engaged in general work. In 1890, as Assistant engineer of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, he had charge of the double tracking of a portion of
that line near Tacoma, remaining
with the company until 1893. In 1895 he
was engaged as bridge draughtsman with the San Francisco & San Joaquin
Valley Railway, later becoming chief draughtsman with this
company until 1900, when he entered the service of the Southern Pacific Company
in San Francisco as office assistant to the Chief Engineer.
In
1904 Mr. Newman was office engineer of the Salt Lake Railroad on the
construction of 300 miles of line between Daggett, Cal.,
and Caliente, Nev.,
and the next year returned to the service of the Southern Pacific. In 1907 he became construction engineer of
the North Coast Railway in eastern Washington,
and from 1907 until 1912 served as office assistant to William Hood, Chief
Engineer of the Southern Pacific. In
1912 Mr. Newman was appointed Assistant State Engineer in charge of the
important office of harbor improvements at San Francisco.
Mr.
Newman is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a thirty-second
degree Mason and a Shriner.
Transcribed by Betty Vickroy.
Source: Press Reference
Library, Western Edition Notables of the West, Vol. I, Page
778, International News
Service, New
York,
Chicago, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Atlanta. 1913.
© 2007 Betty Vickroy.
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