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

oouudEys 1908, ana DullE the western
end OF 125 miles of the Atlantic and
Danville railway, as chief engineer. He
Is now general manager and chief en-
gineer Of che DanvSile and East Tonnes
see Railroad Company-the road now
being built between Danville. Va, and
Bristol, Tenn. He is member OF the
American Society of Mechanical En-
gineesr, aad two or three foreign en-
gineer societies.
N. s. Lutx.
OF Lynchburg, Is a graduate in civil en-
gineering Of the Polytechnic Institute,
OF Massachusetts, class of seventy-two.
He has been engaged In locating and
constructing the following railroads:
Southwest Pennsylvania railway. Lew
isburg and Spruce creek railway, Tyrone
and Clearfield railroad, Pennsylvania
railroad, Old and New Portage railroad,
New River railroad, Shenandoah Valley
railroad, New York, West Shore and
Buffalo railroad, South Pennsylvania
railroad, bloomsbury and Sullivan rail
road, Baltimore and Drum Point rail
road and the Fairmont Park Gravity
railroad. He was employed in the con-
struction OF the Twenty-fifth ward gas
capacity of 100000 cubic feet in
twenty-four hours. He has also done
considerable town surveying and bridge
building.
Gustaf Bottiger
was born in Stockholm, Sweden, August
10, 1856. He took course in civil
engineering and architecture at the
Royal Polytechnicums of Stockholm
and Gothenburg, Sweden from 1871 to
1877. He was an engineer on the gov
ernm ent roads in Sweden and Russia
from 1877 to 1880, and engineer in
charge in 1880 and 1881 of Lila Biorn.
mossen Tallas railway. January, 1881,
and 1882 he was division engineer on
the Denver and Rio Grande railway,
Utah Territory; in 1882 and 1885 chief
draughtsman of the South Pennsylvania
railroad; in 1885 to 1887 assistant engi-
neer in charge of buildings on the
Southern division of the Illinois Central
railroad; in 1887 to 1889 chief draughts-
man OF the Norfolk and Western rail-
road, Clinch Valley extensions; In Feb
ruary, 1889, he opened an office in
Roanoke to conduct an engineering and
architectural business. Since that time
he has had in charge q great part of the
best buildings going up in Roanoke. He
is member of the Swedish Society Of
Civil Engineers and of the Engineers
Club Of Philadelphia.
G. NJ. Thompson,
OF Roanoke, is graduate of the Massa-
chuseets Institute of Technology at
Boston, and is q member of the Amer
lean Society of Civil Engineers. He
has followed his profession for eighteen
years and has been engaged on the fol-
lowing railroads: IIousac Tunnel, as
division engineer of constructions; Mys-
tic Valley railroad, as locating engineer;
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more railroad, as principal assistant
engineer; Eastern railroad, as principal
assistant engineer; Texas Mexican rail
way, as locating engineer: Mexican
Central railroad, as engineer and super
intendont, roadway department.; Boston
and Lowell, as chief engineer; Washing
ton and Potomac, as chief engineer.
At present he is on the Norfolk and
Western as division engineer mainten.
ance of way of the Western general
division.
Clarence Coleman,
of Roanoke, was born April 4th, 1S49, al
Jerdone Castle. Louisa county, Virginia
He was educated at tho Virginia Mill
tary Institute and Washington and Lee
University, and commencement the prac-
tice Of engineering in the year 1870 as
assistant engineer on tho Houston and
Texas Central railray, the first railroad
built through the State of Texas. After
wards he was engaged on the geological
surveys in orthwestern Texas, and
was consulting engineer to the Dallas
and Wichita railroad; assistant engineer
on the Richmond and Allegheny rail
road; assistant engineer on the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railway; engineer for
the Virginia Sulphur Mines Company;
engineer for the Arminius Copper Mines
Company; engineer of docks and bridges
on the Iousatonic railroad in Connecti-
cut. He built the terminal docks and
transfer bridges at Wilson's Point or
Long Island sound, and was chief en-
gineer of the Santa Fc Southern railway,
Of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ho is now
engaged in private practice in Roanoke
j. t. Ingersoll
was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He took
special course in civil and mining engi
neering at Cornell University and en-
tered the employ of Warner & Swasey
the builders Of the Lick telescope. lie
came to Virginia in 1882 to take charge
of mining operations in Augusta county
He camo to Roanoke in 1882 and was
employed by the Grocer Steel Company
and later by tho Southwest Virginia
luproVeuenC company. ue entered the
employ Of the Norfolk and Western
railroad on surveys in the Flat Tor
coal field in 1885, and ran the first
transit limo over the mountain where
the Elkhorn tunnel is now located. He
was afterward right-of-way engineer OF
the Clinch Valley division of the Nor
fork and Western railroad. Leaving
there he was engaged for two years, in
connection with Mr.. WEIGH, in the
operation of Rorer iron mines. He was
engaged during the year 1890 in making
examinations and reports on various
mineral nrOnnrtinS in Snuthunct Nir