Elnathan Sweet

November 20, 1837 (age 65)

Cheshire, Berkshire County, United States of America

He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1884 to 1887. His family moved to Stephentown, New York in 1842. He soon returned to New York and was employed as Assistant Engineer in various railway companies. From 1864 to 1868, he was at Franklin, Pennsylvania engaged in the engineering development of oil wells and coal mines. In 1869, he removed to Chicago, and became Chief Engineer of the Rock Island and Quincy Railroad, later a part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. He was appointed Division Engineer of the Eastern Division of the New York State Canals in 1876. He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1884 to 1887, elected on the Democratic ticket in 1883 and 1885. Upon retiring from office, he practiced as a Consulting Engineer, and became President of the Canton Bridge Company In 1897 he was appointed as receiver for the Lebanon Springs Railroad following the death of William V. V. Reynolds. In 1900, he was President of the Advisory Commission of Engineers, appointed by State Engineer Edward A. Bond to advise in the conduct of surveys for a thousand-ton barge canal. He died from heart disease at the Fort Orange Club in Albany, New York on January 26, 1903 at age 65. His principal contribution to engineering science consists in the determination of the laws that govern the propulsion of vessels in narrow channels, an account of which he published in 1880 in the Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers of which organization he was elected a member in 1878.

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He was born on November 20, 1837 in Cheshire, Massachusetts.

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He graduated with a degree in civil engineering from Union College in 1859, and began work as Deputy Surveyor under Ward B. Burnet, Surveyor General of the Kansas and Nebraska Territories.

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He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1884 to 1887. His family moved to Stephentown, New York in 1842. He soon returned to New York and was employed as Assistant Engineer in various railway companies.

From 1864 to 1868, he was at Franklin, Pennsylvania engaged in the engineering development of oil wells and coal mines.

In 1869, he removed to Chicago, and became Chief Engineer of the Rock Island and Quincy Railroad, later a part of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. He was appointed Division Engineer of the Eastern Division of the New York State Canals in 1876.

He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1884 to 1887, elected on the Democratic ticket in 1883 and 1885. Upon retiring from office, he practiced as a Consulting Engineer, and became President of the Canton Bridge Company

In 1897 he was appointed as receiver for the Lebanon Springs Railroad following the death of William V. V. Reynolds.

In 1900, he was President of the Advisory Commission of Engineers, appointed by State Engineer Edward A. Bond to advise in the conduct of surveys for a thousand-ton barge canal.

He died from heart disease at the Fort Orange Club in Albany, New York on January 26, 1903 at age 65. His principal contribution to engineering science consists in the determination of the laws that govern the propulsion of vessels in narrow channels, an account of which he published in 1880 in the Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers of which organization he was elected a member in 1878.

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American Society of Civil Engineers]

In 1875, he was a member of the Tilden Commission which investigated alleged canal frauds. Later he was a member of the New York Water Storage Commission.

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