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sent the rising city Of Roanoke to the
world, both there and on his maps. AT
this time he was requested by State au-
thority to write treatise on the eoono-
milo geology of Southwest Virginia,
which was published by the Commerce
Of Agriculture. He was appointed by
the general council of American Engi
neering Societies in 1890 as q member of
the reception committee OF the British
Iron and Steel Institute, and other for
eign societies, and Is now issuing his
twenty-fr st edition of the Resources and
Railway Facilities of Southwest Vir-
ginia.
Oscar Saabye,
division engineer of the Norfolk and
Western for the Roanoke division, was
born in Denmark in 1852. He took the
degree of master of arts at the Univer-
sity of Copenhagen, in 1870, and the
degree Of civil engineer from the Mill
tary Academy of Royal Engineers in
1874. He visited and heard lectures at
the principal engineering school OF
Europe for two years. lie came to
America twelve years ago, and since
that time has been engaged in railroad
engineering, both in locating and con-
structing some of the most prominent
railroads of the country, among Thorn
the Missouri Pacific, Atkinson, Topeka
and Santa Fe, and Union Pacific. lie
was engineer in charge OF the construc-
ton of the extensive terminals and
dock buildings in Jersey City, built by
the Central railroad, of New Jersey, in
18S8s0. He came to Virginia year
ago, and is now in charge of maintain
ance of way of the Roanoke division of
tho Norfolk and Western railroad. He
was elected member of the American
Society Of Civil Engineers last October.
C.G. Cushman,
was born in Piscataquis county, Maine,
in 1861, where he lived until 1881, when
he moved to Brldgeton in the same State
and served an apprenticeship as ma
chinist until the spring OF 1886, when he
entered tho Maine State College, grad
uating with the class of 80 with tho de-
gree of Mechanical Engineer. After
leaving college he was employed in the
engineering department of the Trenton
Iron Company, of Trenton, N. j., until
October Of last year, when he came to
Roanoke to engage in the business Of
general iron contractor. At the Novem-
Der meeting of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers, Mr.. Cushman
was made member Of that society.
Libert Chandler,
city engineer of Salem. emigrated from
England in 1857 and was employed on
the Ordinance Survey Of Great Britain"
'gineering at University College, Toronto,
and was for some time employed on
roads and harbors in Ontario. He held
positions of assistant engineer on the
Intercolonial railway; division engineer,
North Shore railway, and division eng
ineer on the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa
End Occidental railway, all in Canada;
assistant engineer on ct. Paul, Minnea-
polls and Manitoba railroad, division
engineer on the International and Great
Northern railroad, Texas; chief engineer
of Quebec Central railway. He was
employed on Jacksonville, Tampa and
Key West railroad, Florida, afterwards,
and for some years was division engineer
of Louisville and Nashville railroad,
Alabama.
Aaron Ward Morris
was born at Undercliff, on tho Hudson
river near the village of Cold Spring, in
the year 1854. He is the grandson OF
the poet, General George z. Morris,
associate of N. p. Willis, both of liter
airy fame. His father was graduated at
West Point. and in 1856 died in the SER
vice of his country while United States
Army officer.
Mr.. Morris received technical ed uca-
the Government service. He was con-
nected with various railroad enterprises
from 1875 to 1886, among which may be
mentioned the New York and Eric,
Shenandoah Valley, Hudson Suspension
Bridge and New England and the Ohio
Central. He was the engineer in charge
and superintendent of the celebrated
Crimora mines some years since, and
has been identified with the develop.
ment of the Shenandoah Valley from
Harper's Ferry to Roanoke. In 1899 he
returned to his native State, where he
became attached to tho department OF
public parks as an engineer in charge OF
the central park and other parks
throughout the city. a little over year
ago he took up his residence in Bristol
where he is engaged in regular engineer
ing, both civil and mining, and is idcn-
titled with the most important engineer
ing projects of that section. lie has fol
his associate an engineer of skill, K. M
barley, Of st. Louis. They are doing
an active business under the firm name
of Morris & barley.
w. L. Marshall,
chief engineer of the Bldefield Water
Works and Improvement Company, has
been in the profession ten years and
been principally engaged in railroad
work in the Southern and Western
States, having been connected with the
following roads: Richmond and ALE.
ghansy at Richmond, Virginia.; Georgia
Pacific in Alabama and Georgia; Mem.
phis, birmingham and Atlantic in
Mississippi; the Gould system in Mis-
souri, and Arkansas; Richmond and Dan
vile system in North Carolina. Before
coming with the Bluefield Water Works