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John Lockwood, C.E.
| Name | John Lockwood, C.E. |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Broadway 58 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Wasser- und Gaswerksbau |
| Anmerkungen | Ass. Mem. Am. Soc. Civil Engineers. Hydraulic and Gas Engineer and Contractor for the Erection of Water and Gas Works. |
| Quellenangaben | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 303] |
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| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Firmendarstellung |
| TEXT | The field of enterprise for works requiring the highest quality of engineering talent and skill is of vast dimensions in America, and the steady and marvellously rapid growth in wealth and population during the last thirty or forty years has afforded the capital and an imperative demand for the erection of public works of generally great magnitude in every town and city of any importance. The professional talent of the country has fully kept pace with this demand, and prominent among the comparative few who have by sheer force of merit become celebrated for the success with which they have invariably accomplished every undertaking is Mr. John Lockwood, the widely known and popular hydraulic and gas engineer of No. 52 Broadway. Mr. Lockwood has devoted his attention for many years to the perfection of a plan for the protection of property and has devised a scheme consisting of the utilization of salt water and the erection of a system of towers which it is thought by competent authorities will prove a pronounced success, and a bill has passed the Legislature incorporating a company with power to make contracts with the city government. The full details of this scheme are contained in a circular which will be furnished on application to Mr. Lockwood, at whose office the plans, etc., may also be seen. It is now upwards of forty years ago since Mr. Lockwood embarked upon that career in which he has made such an enduring record and has left so many monuments of his ability and energy. During the above period he has carried to a successful completion upward of thirty of the most important public works in America, and which require but bare mention here to illustrate the high character of the field in which Mr. Lockwood has so usefully labored. Among others are works erected by himself at Frankfort, Ky.; Dayton, O.; Columbus, O.; Zanenville, O.; Sandusky, O.; Chilicothe, O.; Newport, R.I.; Dallas, Texas; New Albany, Ind.; Madison, Ind.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Milwaukee, South Side, Wis.; Janeaville, Wis.; West Troy, N.Y.; Jefferson City, N.O., La.; Fort Worth, Texas; Steubenville, O.; Indianapolis, Ind.; Kings Co., N.Y.; New Brighton, S.I. [kein solcher Staat bekannt; ein New Brigthon nur in New York, Pennsylvania und Minnesota]; Cats-kill, N.Y. The above list is only a partial one, but demonstrates the grasp that Mr. Lockwood possesses as a practically experienced and fully versed hydraulic and gas engineer, superintending as he has the operations of armies of laboring men and mechanics and the expenditure of millions of capital. Mr. Lockwood's high attainments in his profession have been duly recognized in the scientific world, and he is an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, popular and respected generally among his fellow members. Apart from Mr. Lock-wood's representative as an engineer, he has been active and useful to a very notable degree in public life, and his services are worthy of permanent record. A native of New York City, Mr. Lockwood's profession naturally drew him to the western field, where his services were so frequently called into requisition, and it was during President Lincoln's administration that he was honored with the appointment of postmaster of the city of Milwaukee, Wis., and the onerous duties of which position he ably and faithfully discharged. He also had extensive vested interests in that city and was unanimously elected President of the First National Bank of Milwaukee, in which position of trust he manifested financial talent of a high order, and protected the interests of the stockholders and the public, the bank being one of the most solid and successful institutions in the West. He was appointed by Congress as one of the commissioners to organize the Texas and Pacific Railroad, which commission was held in New York some ten years ago. Mr. Lockwood is equally prominent in nearly every city in the Union. He is still hale and hearty, in the prime of life, and possessed of an aggegation of wisdom as regards the erection of water and gas works which renders it advisable for corporations and companies to consult him, and from his carefully drawn plans and estimates form an accurate idea of their undertaking and its cost. He contracts to erect the most extensive and difficult works, and no more honorable, reliable, and successful engineer can be found in the ranks of the profession. |
| QUELLE | [New Yorks great industries (1884) 303] |
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