Background
GILLESPIE, Chester Cordon was born on May 16, 1885 in Hollister, California, United States. Son of Samuel Bernard and Rebecca F. (Pickering) Gillespie.
Bureau of Sanitary Engineering chief
GILLESPIE, Chester Cordon was born on May 16, 1885 in Hollister, California, United States. Son of Samuel Bernard and Rebecca F. (Pickering) Gillespie.
University of California, Bachelor of Science.
Investigator, irrigation practice, United States Department of Agriculture, California, Arizona, 1908. Special assistant, engnr., California State Board of Health, 1912-1913. Supt. water filtration plant, Evanston, 111., 1914-1915.
Assistant, engnr., Sacramento, California. 1915; director, Bureau of Sanitary Engineering, California State Board of Health. since 1915 (except November 1919-December 1922). Organized this bureau.
Now serving. Chief, same Bureau.
Member: American Society Civil Engineers. American Public Health Association Club: Faculty of University of California (Berkeley).
Spouse Della Bayly, October 1916, Oakland, California.