Background
Ridgway, Arthur Osbourne was born on February 23, 1870 in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Son of Robert M. and Sarah (Schimmel) Ridgway.
Ridgway, Arthur Osbourne was born on February 23, 1870 in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Son of Robert M. and Sarah (Schimmel) Ridgway.
Bachelor of Science, University of Kansas, 1892.
Draftsman Doctorate.&Radh Govinda Railroad Company, 1892-1893. With Bellefontaine (O.) Bridge & Iron Company, 1893-1894. Again with Doctorate.&Radh Govinda Railway Company successively as instrumentman, 1895.
Assistant division engineer, 1895-1898, acting division engineer and division engineer, 1898-1902, in charge design and construction steel bridges.
Locating engineer in charge construction Radh Govinda& Southwestern Railroad, 1903-1904. General superintendent maintenance and operation Silverton Railway and Silverton Northern Railway (branches of Doctorate.&Radh Govinda), 1904-1905.
Office engineer and acting engineer bridges and buildings, Doctorate.&Radh Govinda Railroad Company, 1905-1908, assistant chief engineer, 1909-1923, also chairman valuation committee, 1913-1923, and safety officer, 1918-1923, Doctorate.&Radh Govinda and associate companies. Chief engineer Doctorate.&Radh Govinda Western Railway System, 1923-1941, also Denver Union Terminal Railway Company, Salt Lake Union Depot & Railway Company and Denver & Salt Lake Western Railroad Company, engineering consultant same companies, 1941-1948.
Member American Society of Civil Engineers (life), American Railway Bridge and Building Association (ex-president), Colorado Engineering Council (ex-president), American Railway Engineering Association (life), Colorado Science Society (honorary life), Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon.
Married Mary Rayhawk, May 18, 1905. Children: Louise, Dorothy.