Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-31
PROF. L. G. VOSE.
Brilliant Educator Passes Away d
Brunswick After Brief Illness.

Brunswick, Me, March 30.-(SpeciaD
Prof George Leonard Vosc, professor
of civil engineering at Bowdoin College
from 1872 to 1882. and at Massachu-
sets Institute of Technology from
1882 to 1886, died early this morning
after Il very short illness with heart
trouble and other complications.
Prof. Vose was born in Augusta,
Me-, April 49, 1881. the son of Hon.
Richard II. and Harriet Chandler Vose.
He received a portion of his education
at the Augusta High school and part
in Salem, Mass. In 1S4S he entered
the office of Samuel Mott, a civil en-
sineer in Boston. and after u year
went to the Lawrence Scientific school
at Cambridge. Mass. After leaving
that school he was employed in vari-
Gus capacities on the Kennebec and
Portland railroad in Maine, the Al
buny and SusnuChanna in New York,
the Warren and Bristol in Rhode Is
land, the Louisville and Nashville in
Kentucky and Tennessee, the Stan
stead. Shefford and Chambly in Cana
da, the Northern Cross from Quincy
to Galesbury. H.. now q. part of the
Chicago Burlington and Quincy sys-
TEN, the Hannibal and St. Joseph in
Missouri and the Nova Scotia from
Halifax to Windsor.
He was associate editor of the Amer
lean Railway Times. published in Bos-
ton from 1860 to 1864. The next eight
years he was employed in Maine and
New Hampshire, living at Salem,
Mass, ana Paris, Me. During the ten
years ne was at Bowdon he taught
many Wellknown men, among them
Commander Robert E. Peary, Dean
Alfred r. Burton of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Charles D.
Jameson. a well known engineer loca-
ted in China. and others.
He was twice married, first in 1855
to Abby, the daughter of Rev. Zenas
Thompson. by whom he had four chill
drcn, and then in 1872 to Charlotte b.,
tie daughter of Hon. Charles and
-Persis Sibly Andrews of Paris. One
son by his first wife, Richard II. Nose
of Colina. Mexico, is living. The fun
eral will be held Friday morning.
Burial will be at Salem, Mass.
After retiring from his professorship
u
Technology, Prof. Vose practically re-
tired. .although frequently called upon
as an expert in consultation work
Since 1886 he had resided at Concord,
Mass, Paris, Me, and Brunswick, hav-
ing lived here for the last seven years.
He was well known as an author of
text books and articles on engineering
subjects, among his best known works
being:
1S57--Handbook of Railroad Con-
struction.
1S5S-Paper IN Railroad Engineering
1S63-Paper on Glacial Theories.
1S66-Orographic Geology or The
Origin and Structure of Mountains
1S13-Manual for Railroad Engineers
and Engineering students.
lSi5-Papcr on The United States;
Coast Surves'
1S7S-tlementary Course of Geo
metricaI Drawing.
1SS2-Safety in Railroad Travel
lSS4-Notes on the History of Early
Transportation i'll Massachusetts
lsS7-~Bridgc Disasters in America.
The Cause and the Remedy
1SS!-Memoirs of George w. Whist
Ter.
Funeral services will be conducted
by members OF the Bowdoin College
FACULTY at King Chapel at $50 Friday
morning and the remains will be taken
TO Salem, Mass, on the noon train for
burial.