Background
Scheidenhelm, Frederick William was born on June 16, 1884 in Mendota, Illinois, United States. Son of Jacob and Katherine (Faber) Scheidenhelm.
Scheidenhelm, Frederick William was born on June 16, 1884 in Mendota, Illinois, United States. Son of Jacob and Katherine (Faber) Scheidenhelm.
Bachelor of Arts, Cornell Univercity, 1905. Civil Engineer, 1906.
Structural and hydraulic encr. West Penn Rys. Company, 1906-1909. Organized 1909, Pittsburgh Hydro-Electric Company, of which was vice-president and chief engineer until 1914.
Organizer, secretary-treasurer Mount Pk.
Land Company; chief engineer Georgia-Carolina Power Company, 1910. Vice-president and chief engineer Hydro-Electric Company of West Virginia, 1911-1914, et cetera
Consulting engineer, Pittsburgh, 1914-1915. Consulting engineer, reconstruction of Stony River, West Virginia, dam.
Associated with Daniel West. Mead in consultant hydraulic and hydroelectric practice, New York, 1916-1917, and 1919-1948.
Consultant engineering practice in own name since 1948. Secretary-treasurer, Scheidenhelm Construction Corporation, general contractors, New York, 1916-1917. Supervising consultant, Claytor dam and hydro-electric development, New River, Virginia, 1937-1939.
Member Engineering College Council Cornell Univercity, 1939-1957. Served from captain to lieutenant colonel United States Army Engineers, 1917-1919, commander 26th Engineers, water supply regiment Advertising Educational Foundation. Fellow A.A.A. South.; member American Society of Civil Engineers (Chairman of Commission on cost allocation for multiple water projects, since 1945), Cornell Society Engineers, American Arbitration Association.
American Institute of Consultant
Engineers, Society American Military Engineers (nres. New York 1926). Tau Beta Pi.
Clubs: Cornell, Downtown Athletic, Railroad-Machinery (New York City).
Married Clare Louise Espenschied, January 22, 1912. Children: Faber (deceased), Mistress Jean South. Wolff.