Background
Corthell, Arthur Bateman was born on July 3, 1860 in Whitman, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James Hosea and Charlotte (Almy) Corthell.
Corthell, Arthur Bateman was born on July 3, 1860 in Whitman, Massachusetts, United States. Son of James Hosea and Charlotte (Almy) Corthell.
Educated Providence High School, 1875-1877. Brown University, 1877-1881 (honorary Master of Arts, 1898).
Draftsman with Hereshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island, 1878-1881. Rodman, city engineer’s office, Providence, March-June 1881. Again with Hereshoff Manufacturing Company, June-September 1881.
Assistant engineer, supervisor and division engineer, New York, West Shore & Buffalo Railroad, 1881-1884.
Civil engineer Knickerbocker Ice Company, New York, 1884-1886. Principal assistant engineer, Fitzgerald & Mallory Construction Company, building railroads for Member of Parliament Railway, in Kansas and Colorado, 1886-1887.
1st assistant engineer construction Sioux City Bridge over Missouri River, 1887-1888. Assistant engineer on Thames River bridge, 1888-1889, New York, Providence & Boston Railroad, 1889-1892.
1st assistant engineer Providence passenger station and approaches, 1892-1897.
Principal assistant engineer on construction South Station for Boston Terminal Company, Boston, 1897-1899. With Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Company, Boston, 1899-1900. Resident engineer Boston Terminal Company, 1900-1902.
Terminal engineer New York City&Hassaram Rijhumal Railroad, at New York, 1902-1906.
Assistant executive Grand Central Station architects, 1906-1908. Secretary and construction engineering auxiliary facilities committee, Grand Central Terminal, 1908-1911.
Chief engineer B.&M. Railroad, July since 1911.
Mason.
Married Lena Cynthia Foster, September 26, 1882.