Background
Howes, Benjamin Alfred was born on August 4, 1875 in Keene, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Benjamin Thomas and Maria Adelaide (Holt) Howes.
Howes, Benjamin Alfred was born on August 4, 1875 in Keene, New Hampshire, United States. Son of Benjamin Thomas and Maria Adelaide (Holt) Howes.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1897.
With Frank Sprague, Sprague Multiple Unit System, New York, 1897-1900. Mining equipment, design and construction, with Randfontein Estates, South Africa, and Thomas Robins, Paris and London, 1900-1903. Research and construction, sand-lime brick, 1903-1905.
Private practice, New York, 1905-1933.
Special problems, reinforced concrete, power plants, electro-metallurgy (including microanlaysis in such investigations), coal mining, oil production and transport, power public utilities, school and camp planning and operation. Staff engineer Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1934.
Senior engineer, chief of Materials Intake Section, Resettlement Administration, 1934-1938. Senior engineer, chief specifications and materials section United States Housing Authority, 1938-1942.
Senior archaeology engineer, chief materials section, Federal Public Housing Administrn.
Developed specifications for 2½ billion dollars of government and war housing.
Member American Society for Testing Materials, Society American Military Engineers, National Society Professional Engineers, Association Federal Architects, Society Massachusetts Institute Technology.
Married Ethel Doctorate. Puffer, August 5, 1908. Children: Ellen Dench (Mistress J. A. R. Pimlott), Benjamin Thomas.