Background
Wing, Charles Benjamin was born on January 18, 1864 in Willow Brook (now Clinton Corners), New York, United States. Son of Phineas Rice and Mary (Sands) Wing.
Wing, Charles Benjamin was born on January 18, 1864 in Willow Brook (now Clinton Corners), New York, United States. Son of Phineas Rice and Mary (Sands) Wing.
Preparatory education Poughkeepsie Military Institute. C.E., Cornell Univercity, 1886. Fellow civil engineering, Cornell, 1886-1887.
Step children—Ashley Colt Browne, Mistress Frances Browne Wenzel. Instructor сivil engineering, Cornell, 1886-1890. Assistant professor, 1890-1891, professor bridge and hydraulic engineering, 1891-1892, University of Wisconsin.
Professor structural engineering, 1892-1929, emeritus since 1929, executive head department сivil engineering, 1923-1929, Stanford University. Vice chairman and Executive officer California State Redwood Park Commission, 1911-1926. Chief of Division of Parks of State Department of Natural Resources of California, 1928-1935.
Chief State Park Authority and engineer in charge of Federal coöperative projects in California State Parks, 1935-1936. Consultant civil engineer since 1936. Major and lieutenant colonel 23d Engineers, on railway construction and highway work and with 1st Army in Argonne-Meuse, in France, April 1918-June 1919.
Cons. engineer bridges, wireless towers and special structures, among which are the 1,000 foot towers for the Shanghai, China, station of the Federal Telegraph Company Councilman Palo Alto, 1909-1929.
Member of Society of Military Engineers. American Society Testing Materials. American Society of Civil Engineers.
Pacific Association Consulting Engineers Clubs: Commonwealth and Engineers (San Francisco), Save the Redwoods League.
Married Anna Maria Paddock, September 18, 1888 (died February 1905).; married second, Mistress. Children: Simmer Paddock, Winchester Paddock, Charles Benjamin, Robert Lewis.