Background
Cattell, William Ashburner was born on June 16, 1863 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Son of Review Thomas W. (Doctor of Philosophy) and Anna C. (Ashburner) C.
Cattell, William Ashburner was born on June 16, 1863 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Son of Review Thomas W. (Doctor of Philosophy) and Anna C. (Ashburner) C.
Civil Engineer, Lafayette College, 1884.
Assistant engineer, State Board of Railroad Assessors, New Jersey, and later on preliminary location surveys for A.,T.&San Francisco Railroad in Kansas and Indiana Ty., 1884-1889. Assistant chief engineer, construction Long Island Railroad, 1889-1897. Consulting practice, New York, 1897-1905.
Construction engineering for East. H. Rollins & Sons, San Francisco, on various projects, 1905-1908, including Western Pacific Railroad.
Report for Hirsch Syndicate, Limited., London, on Valdez-Yukon Railroad project in Alaska. Chief engineer Clear Lake Power and Irrigation project, also the Trona Railway.
Construction engineering San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Rys., Peoples Water Company, Los Angeles Railway Corporation General consulting practice, San Francisco, 1908-1917. Member Cattell, Howard & Ashton, 1917.
Commissioned major, Engineer Roman Catholic, March 1, 1917.
Ordered to active duty, December 28, 1917. At Camp Lee, Virginia, January 5-February 22, 1918. Staff duty Office Chief of Engineers, Washington, in charge of history unit, February 23, 1918-September 30, 1919.
Mason.
Married Jennie West. Woodhull, September 17, 1889.