Background
Montzheimer, Arthur was born on January 23, 1869 in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Julius H. G. and Isabel G. (Hillock) Montzheimer.
Montzheimer, Arthur was born on January 23, 1869 in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Julius H. G. and Isabel G. (Hillock) Montzheimer.
Preparatory education, high school, Webster City, Iowa. Graduate Dixon (Illinois) College Civ. Engineering, 1888.
Rodman, transitman, draftsman and assistant engineer, same road, 1889-1895, and superintendent bridges, headquarters Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1895-1903. Chief engineer Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway corporation since 1903. Chief engineer Chicago, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway, 1903-1909, and of Chicago, Milwaukee & Gary Railway, under United States Railroad Administration, January 1918-March 1920.
Member engineering committee of Real Estate Advisory communications of Sanitary District of Chicago. Member American Society of Civil Engineers, Western Society Engineers, American Railway Engineering Association, American Railway Bridge and Building Association (ex-president), American Railway Signal Association, American Wood Preservers’ Association, Chicago Regional Planning Association. Mason ( Knights Templar, Shriner).
Clubs: Engineers’, Rotary, Shabbona, Shriners.
Married Julia McClellan Mosher, of Racine, Wisconsin, June 28, 1893. Children: Gertrude East. (deceased), Marie (Mistress Leonard West. Gesler), Arthur M. Began with Chicago & Northwestern Railway, 1886.