Background
Grunsky, Carl Ewald was born on April 4, 1855 in San Joaquin Company, California, United States. Son of Carl Albert Leopold and Clotilde Josephine Frederica (Camerer) Grunsky.
Grunsky, Carl Ewald was born on April 4, 1855 in San Joaquin Company, California, United States. Son of Carl Albert Leopold and Clotilde Josephine Frederica (Camerer) Grunsky.
Graduate Realschule, Stuttgart, Germany, 1872-1874. Polytechnikum, Stuttgart, 1874-1877, graduate, 1877, Doctor Ing., 1910. Doctor of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1924.
First work as topographer with river surveying party of State Engineering Department of California, 1878. Assistant and chief assistant state engineer of California, 1879-1888. In private practice, largely in irrigation work, sewerage and drainage, 1887-1899, located at Sacramento and San Francisco.
At work on river rectification and drainage problems as member Examining Commision on Rivers and Harbors of California, 1889-1890, and as construction engineering to commissioner of public works of California, 1893-1894.
Member San Francisco Sewerage Commission, 1892-1893. City engineer, San Francisco, 1900-1904.
Member Isthmian Canal Commission, 1904-1905. Construction engineering United States Reclamation Service, 1905-1907.
In private practice as construction engineering, New York and San Francisco, 1907-1909.
At San Francisco, since 1910. Now senior member C. East. Grunsky Company and acting director California Academy of Sciences. Author: Valuation, Depredation and the Rate-Base (with son), 1916.
Topographic Stadia Surveying, 1917.
Public Utility Rate Fixing, 1918. Ways to National Prosperity, 1929.
Home: Berkeley, California.
Member San Francisco Sewerage Commission, 1892-1893. Member Isthmian Canal Commission, 1904-1905. Member Chamber East. Grunsky Company and acting director California Academy of Sciences.
Married Mattie Kate Powers, March 12, 1884 (died 1921). Children: Carl Ewald, Kate Louise (Mistress B. Grant Taylor), Eugene Lucius, Clotilde.