Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-05
KINGMAN Gets
PROMOTION To
CHIEF ENGINEER
Has Served Government for 43
Years-Takes the Rank Of
Brigadier General.

SAVANNAH, Oct 4.-Colonel Dan
c. Kingman, United States engineer
in charge of the Southeastern Di-
vision, with headquarters at Savan-
nah, has been officially advised that
his name has been sent to the Senate
by President Wilson to succeed Cen
eral William T. Rossell as chief of
the Corps of Engineers of the United
States army. Colonel kingman will
take the rank of Brigadier General.
His successor in charge Of the Sa
vannah District will be Lieutenant
Colonel Edward Burr. now attached
to headquarters in Washington.
Il fel very much gratified," said
Colonel Kingman, who has served in
the engineering corps continuously
for 43 years out of possible 81, and
FOR the last 80 years in one corps.
when | started in there were only
two men below me, and ] have seen
great many better men than I go out
There are titles and positions in the
military service that have a value
to the officers which can not be valued
In money. To an officer in the engi-
neering corps the position Of chief
Is one of these"
time he graduated from the United
States Military Academy at West
Point has been one of notable achieve
ment. Born at Dover y. H. March s,
1852, he came of sturdy New England
stock whose lineage runs back to the
early centuries. His father was John
w. Kingman, Of New Hampshire,
whose ancestors came to America and
settled In Massachusetts in 1885. John
Kingman graduated from Harvard
University in the class of 1913 He
studied law in the office of Daniel
Webster and was admitted to the
bar in Boston. During the Civil War
he was acolonel in command Of the
Fifteenth New Hampshire Volunteers,
and afterwards associate justice Of
the United States Court of the Ter
ritory of Wyoming, which was first
organized in 1869,
Graduating from West Point, stand
ing second in his class, in 1875, the
young engineer who now Is TO head
that branch of the service was first
appointed second lieutenant in the
Corps of Engineers of the army. In
1879 he became first lieutenant, and
was raised to the rank of captain in
1885. He was subsequently elevated
to major in 1897, lieutenant colonel in
1905 and colonel in 1908. He has held
that rank continuously since.
In 1906 Colonel Kingman came to
Savannah as engineer of the South
Atlantic Division. This gave him a
stretch of seacoast to look after from
Norfolk down around the point Of
Florida and up past Tampa to the
mouth of the Suwanee River. In ad
dition TO this, he has served as a
member of boards of engineers in
works Of river and harbor improve
ment from the Pacific TO the Atlantic
and from the Great Lakes down to
the Gulf.
What he has done for the harbor
at Savannah and at other points In
Georgia is too well known and too re-
cent to need further enumeration.
The fact that he was strongly in
dorsed by organizations and CONNER
cial bodies at Savannah, Augusta and
Brunswick is in itself strong evil
dence of the debt which the people Of
these three cities feel they owe him.
His work in improving the Savan-
nah River between this city and Au-
gusta has opened the way for re-
vival of river commerce and brought
about the establishment of a new
steel barge line A depth of 80 feet
Is now available in the harbor at
Savannah, and for the last few months
Colonel Kingman has been bending
us efforts toward securing for SaVan
rah a turning basin in which tho
largest vessels might turn with ease.