Background
Acheson, William Mccarthy was born on July 16, 1878 in Cohoes, New York, United States. Son of James Francis and Mary (McCarthy) Acheson.
Acheson, William Mccarthy was born on July 16, 1878 in Cohoes, New York, United States. Son of James Francis and Mary (McCarthy) Acheson.
Preparatory education, Troy (New York) Academy. Student Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1895-1898, also Union University, Royal Engineers School, Chatham, England, 1917. Honorary East.D., Syracuse University, 1927.
Began in water works department, Troy, New New York In Isthmian Canal Service, Panama, 1904-1910. Supervising engineer with contractor, later division engineer New York State Highway Department, Buffalo, same, Syracuse Division, 1915-1916.
Chief engineer Crescent Portland Cement Company, 1916-1917.
Division engineer New York State Department Highways, Syracuse, 1917, 1919-1923. Division engineer, bureau of Highways and bureau of Canals, New York State Department Public Works, 1923-1927, in charge division engineering, later chief engineer, since 1927.
Lecturer on engineering, Syracuse University, since 1922.
Served as captain, later major engineers United States Army, assigned to staff of chief of roads and railroads, 1917, chief of road service, 1918. Member National Research Council.
Citation from General Pershing and Major General Langfitt, chief of engineers, World War.
Repbulican.
Married Inger Thira Miller, April. Children: Margaret Miller, Thomas Temple.