Background
Wells, Charles Edwin was born on April 27, 1858 in N. Adams, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Daniel M. and Mary M. (Sly) Wells.
Wells, Charles Edwin was born on April 27, 1858 in N. Adams, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Daniel M. and Mary M. (Sly) Wells.
Bachelor of Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1880.
Assistant engineer Troy & Greenfield Railroad and Hoosac Tunnel, Massachusetts, 1880-1885, C.,B.&North. Railroad, 1886. Division engineer Chicago, Santa Fe & California Railroad, 1887-1888. Locating engineer Sault Ste.
Marie & Southwestern Railway, 1888.
Assistant engineer C.&North.W. Railway, 1889-1890. Engineer and superintendent construction MacArthur Brothers Company, Chicago, 1891-1893.
Private practice, Davenport, Iowa, 1894. Superintendent water works, Galesburg, Illinois, April-August 1895.
Division engineer Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board of Massachusetts, 1895-1903.
Engineer reservoir department, same, 1903-1904. Supervising engineer United States Reclamation Service for Southern Wyoming, Nebraska and South Dakot, 1905-1907. Division engineer Board Water Supply City of New York, 1907-1917.
Resident engineer construction of the United States Embarkation Camp, Merritt, New Jersey, 1917.
Supervising plant engineer United States Shipping Board, construction of concrete shipyard plant, San Diego, California, 1918-1919. Construction engineering, since 1919.
Home: North Adams, Massachusetts
Married Katherine Belden, February 19, 1891. Children: Katherine Zeruah (Mistress Leon R. Whipple), Marcus Belden (deceased), Sarah Frances, Margaret Adams.