Background
MARTINEZ, Dion was born on August 25, 1866 in Matanzas, Cuba. Son of Dionisio Maria and Charlotte Martinez.
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Dion MARTINEZ
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Public Schools; Central High School. University of Pennsylvania. Lehigh University, Bethlehem.
Career
Phila, Pennsylvania Early training and experience in construction and maintenance of way depts. of Pennsylvania Railway, 1887. With United States Intercontl. Railway Commission, S. American, survey for Intercontl.
Railway, 1890; private engnrng. practice, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1891. With United States Nicaragua Canal Commission, Nicaragua, 1897. With United States Government, of Intervention.
Cuba, as civilian engnr., Santiago, 1898. Locating engnr. of Cuba Company Railway, Santiago Province, 1899. In charge of dredging the Bay of Cardenas, Matanzas Province, 1901.
Private engnrng. practice, Cuba, 1903. With Spanish-American Iron Company. Cuba, 1910; with dept, of City Transit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1913.
Have assisted in preparation of reports recommending rapid transit lines, have prepared specifications for and been in charge of the construction of low grades sewers, subways and elevated lines, since 1913.
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Spouse Gertrude Parsons Hulme, August 9, 1928.
