Education
Cornell University; Cornell University College of Engineering.
Cornell University; Cornell University College of Engineering.
His first work was as a city planner for San Antonio, Texas, but he is more recognized for his work on railroads, specifically the one from Ciudad Juárez to Mexico City, and the Santa Fe Railroad. He was the sole survivor of six children who died from consumption or other diseases. This prompted his move to Pasadena, California, in 1885.
Pasadena was known for its climate conducive to good health.
There he moved into a Dutch Colonial home in the unincorporated area of the Pasadena Highlands. Though he spent time in developments in Pasadena, and was even once the Chairman of the Pasadena Board of Education, he wandered extensively about the foothills conjuring ideas about the development of a scenic mountain railroad to the crest of the San Gabriel Mountains.
This idea had been brought up many times by the locals of Pasadena and Sierra Madre alike. lieutenant was not until he was introduced to the millionaire Professor Thaddeus South. C. Lowe by Perry M. Green, president of the Pasadena First National Bank, that any idea of funding such a venture came to the fore.
Lowe retired to Pasadena from Norristown, Pennsylvania, and moved into a 24,000 sq ft (2,200 m2). mansion on Orange Grove Boulevard, Pasadena in 1890.
Unable to obtain rights of way, the men turned their plans in the direction of Oak Mountain, to become Mount Lowe. The plan for the was also changed to incorporate an electric streetcar or trolley and a cable car funicular. Macpherson"s designs of trestles and bridges went beyond the engineering standards of the day, particularly the Macpherson Trestle, which was designed to negotiate a deep granite chasm along 500 feet (150 m) of track on a 62% grade.
Macpherson acquired the narrow strip of land on which his house was settled, which ran not more than a block wide and a mile in length through the Pasadena Highlands and into He laid out the streets and named them after his favorite American railroads, south to north: Washington Street.
Rio Grande Saint; Denver become Howard Saint Santa Fe become Elizabeth Saint
Topeka Saint Atchison Saint Erie become Woodbury Road east of Lake. New York Doctor; Albany become closed (portions renamed Sonoma Doctor).
Maine become closed.
And Boston Saint
In 1920 he built a new home on the corner of Atchison and March Vista which, after Pasadena annexation was stopped, remains in.
