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Egbert Ludovicus Viele was born on June 17, 1825, at Waterford, New York. He was the son of John Ludovicus and Kathlyne Knickerbacker Viele.
The founder of his family in America, Cornelis Volkertszen, father of Aernout Cornelissen Viele, was a tavern keeper in New Amsterdam as early as 1639. John Ludovicus Viele was a state senator, a judge of the court of errors, and a regent of the University of the State of New York.
Egbert attended the common schools of Lansingburg, graduated with honors at the Albany Academy, and began the study of law. In 1843, however, he secured appointment to the United States Military Academy, where he graduated in 1847.
He was sent at once to join an infantry regiment fighting in the Mexican War, and after the peace he saw service on the southwestern frontier.
In 1853, Viele resigned his commission, returned to New York, and opened an office as a civil engineer. From 1854 to 1856, he was employed by the state of New Jersey, and in the latter year became chief engineer of the projected Central Park in New York City. He made preliminary surveys and submitted a plan for the development of the park, but after a reorganization of the park commission in the following year his design was superseded by that of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, and his services were discontinued.
In 1860, he was an engineer of Prospect Park, Brooklyn. While engineer of Central Park, Viele began a study of the original topography of Manhattan Island, and later repeatedly called attention to the necessity for recognizing the natural drainage system of the island in planning streets and sewers. In 1865, he published a pamphlet, The Topography, and Hydrology of New York, urging sanitation from the point of view of the engineer. He thus had a part in the movement which resulted in the Metropolitan Health Law of 1866.
His Topographical Atlas of the City of New York, published by Julius Bien in 1874, "showing the original water courses and made land, " was of much value to the erectors of large buildings. Meanwhile, in the first year of the Civil War, Viele's Handbook for Active Service (1861) was published in New York and also (in two parts) in Richmond, Virginia. Viele became a captain of engineers in the 7th New York Militia, served in the defenses of Washington, and on August 17, 1861, was made a brigadier-general of volunteers.
He was second in command of the Port Royal expedition, participated in the capture of Fort Pulaski and the taking of Norfolk, Virginia, was military governor of Norfolk from May to October 1862, and was then put in charge of the draft in northern Ohio. In 1863, he resigned and resumed his engineering practice in New York. About 1868, he promulgated a plan for the "Arcade" underground railway, a presage of the subways which came much later. He served as a commissioner of parks for New York City in 1883-84.
In that body, he did much to further the building of the Harlem Ship Canal. He then returned to private life and to his practice. About 1895, while visiting England, he spoke before a committee of the House of Lords upon American municipal administration. As a member of the International Congress of History, he gave the closing address at The Hague Congress in 1898. He was an early member and a vice-president of the American Geographical Society, president of the Aztec Society, and a trustee of the Holland Society of New York.
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In 1885-87, Viele served as a Democratic representative in Congress.
a member of the American Geographical Society, a member of the International Congress of History
On June 3, 1850, Viele married Teresa Griffin, who bore him eight children. His first marriage was terminated by divorce in 1872 and shortly afterward he married Juliette H. Dana.
Two sons and two daughters survived him; the elder son, Herman Knickerbacker Viele, studied civil engineering with his father and later became an artist; the younger, Egbert Ludovicus, Jr. , was taken by his mother to France and there attained distinction as a poet, under the name Francis Viele-Griffin.
6 June 1788 - 19 October 1832
23 August 1792 - 16 September 1837
5 August 1815 - 12 February 1882
3 December 1813 - 22 December 1891
17 May 1823 - 19 February 1903
1812 - 6 August 1895
1821 - 30 September 1906
27 January 1837 - 15 May 1899
