The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-04-05

The Engineers and Architects Assoc
citation, organized yesterday, has enrolled
among its members many Of the eminent
men in these professions in the South,
and below are interesting sketches OF
some OF the most prominent:
s. IL. Mosiey,
OF Bedford City, is graduate of the
Virginia Military Institute at Lexing-
ton. class Of 80. His first practical
work in his profession was in the
engineering department of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad, on the New
port News extension. In 1851 he was
employed on tho National Mexican
railroad and remained there two wears.
Inc next two years he spent in the
service OF the Southern Pacific railway.
and then became assistant division
engineer on the Georgia Pacific road
In 1856 he was in charge of the location
OF the Richmond and Chesapeake rail-
road. In 'S7 and SO he was resident
engineer OF the three C's railroad. He
Is now the senior member of the firm of
>. Is. Mosley & Co., engineers and con-
tractors, Bedford City. He had CHARGE
of the erection of the water works ut
Max Meadows, Vinton and Hinton. w.
Va.
w. II. Burch,
civil and mining engineer, of Wythe-
vile, is an Englishman. Some wears
since he was associated with the en-
gineers in charge of the sewerage and
paving works of the metropolitan
BOARD OF works, of London, England,
for the districts Of Croydon, Lewisham
and Greenwich. Since he has been in
America he has been employed in rail-
way, mining and city work. He is now
city engineer of Wytheville, and on
gineor for the Wytheville Development
Company and tho Electric Street Rail-
way Company.
w.P. Beck,
OF Bluefield, w. Va, was born in Rich
mond, September 80, 1868. He received
common school education, and grad
uated from the Richmond high school
in 1887, taking course of drawing and
civil engineering at the Virginia Me-
chanical Institute, night school of
technology, graduating in 1888 in tho
above course with high honors.
The first position he held was that OF
assistant draughtsman of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railway and afterwards
was assistant engineer Of the Richmond
and Chesapeake railroad. Subsequently
he was resident engineer on Major
Glnters extensive suburban improve
monts near Richmond. at present he
is employed as principal assistant engi-
ncer OF tho Bluefield Water Works and
Improvement Company.
Maj. e. II. Boyd,
of Wythcville, is native OF that place.
lie successfully passed the examination
IN mineralogy and geology at the Uni
versity OF Virginia in 1874, and was
Immediately appointed by Col. VIM. p.
Craighill and his civil assistant, Mr. N.
ii. Hutton, TO take charge of the Slack
Water Survey of the upper waters of
the kanawha and Now rivers, employ
ing his knowledge of geology to find
solid rock foundations for dams and
locks, in what was proposed by the
United States Government as q possible
canal and slack water transportation
limo between tho James and Ohio rivers.
This work was quite laborious and ex-
ceedingly difficult, and was regarded
by the chief engineer as tho first sue
cessful attempt to positively locate the
full series of those proposed locks and
dams on solid rock He was appointed
by Prof. w. z. Blake, of New Haven, to
assist in making an exhibit of Virginia
minerals at the centennial exhibition in
1876. While in Philadelphia he was
elected q member OF the American In
stitute of Mining Engineers, at the in
stance OF DR.. Il. Sterry Hunt and others.
Before that body, at that time, he read
his first paper on the mining resources
OF Southwest Virginia. Very soon after
this he was appointed a member of the
Virginia commission to tho Paris Expo
sition of 1878. He published his book
on the Resources of Southwest Virginia
in 1881, which was favorobly received
by the press and people of this country
and England. Tho map Of Southwest
Virginia, which accompanied that book
has been enlarged since, from time to
time, so that very soon it will comprise
the entire State,a which time treatise
on the economic geology of the State
will be issued. He was elected mem
Der Of the American Society of Civil En-
gineers in 1881, and of the American
Neurological Society of Columbia Coll
lego in 1888. He was appointed MEM
Der of the Historical Commission of yir-
ginia BY tho General Assembly and
Governor of Virginia, to make The ex-
hibit of Virginia history and resources
at tho National exhibition at New Or
leans in 1854; and was the first to pre-