Background
Alfred Boller was born on February 23, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Henry J. and Anna M. (Pancoast) Boller.
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Alfred Boller was born on February 23, 1840, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Henry J. and Anna M. (Pancoast) Boller.
After a preparatory education at the Episcopal Academy, Alfred entered the University of Pennsylvania and was graduated in 1858 with the A. B. degree. Three years later he received his C. E. from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
After graduation Boller spent several years in bridge and aqueduct construction work for railroads. From 1866 to 1870 he was associated with Samuel Millikin as an agent for the Phoenix Iron Company. From 1871 to 1873 he was vice-president and engineer for the Phillipsburg Manufacturing Company, and in 1874 he opened an independent office in New York City where he soon acquired an important professional practise. A partnership was formed in 1898 with Henry M. Hodge. Later Howard C. Baird became a member of the firm. Boller was consulting engineer for various projects and improvements of the Lake Superior Company at Sault Ste. Marie in Canada and Michigan. He was an expert, too, in the matter of foundations and acted as consulting engineer on a number of deep and difficult foundations in New York City. Some bridges designed and built by Boller and his partners include the bridge over the Monongahela River for the Wabash Railroad at Pittsburgh; the Municipal Bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis; and the State Bridge over the Connecticut River at Saybrook, Connecticut.
Boller’s firm acted as consulting engineers for the steel framework of the Singer Building and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Building in New York City. Boller was the author of a Practical Treatise on the Construction of Iron Highway Bridges, for the Use of Town Committees (1876). With sound judgment, he designed his structures skilfully and with great daring, and as much as any man of his day was responsible for the great progress during the latter half of the nineteenth century in the art of bridge design and building. Intuitively he was artistic. This fondness for the artistic and an appreciation for architectural symmetry had a marked influence on his work. The 155th Street Bridge in New York City exemplifies his ability to combine technical principles and practical utility with beauty of outline.
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Boller was married on April 28, 1864, to Katherine Newbold of Philadelphia.