Background
Stuart, Francis Lee, , South Carolina 1866 1935 Male Engineer (Civil) civil engineer, was born at Camden, S. C. , the son of Barnwell Rhett and Emma Croome (Lee) Stuart.
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Education
After his graduation from the Emerson Institute in Washington in 1882, he worked for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad as office-boy, rodman, and transitman, steadily gaining experience that compensated for his lack of formal professional training.
Career
From 1897 to 1900 he conducted surveys for the Nicaraguan and Isthmian Canal commissions, twice returning to the United States to recover from fever contracted in the jungle (Report of the Nicaragua Canal Commission, 1897-1899, 1899).
He then resumed railroad work, taking charge of studies of trunk-line improvements for the Baltimore & Ohio.
After five years he rejoined the Baltimore & Ohio, to carry through its large program of double tracking, grade reduction, and enlarged terminals.
A gift for clear analysis and ingenious solutions, and a reputation for absolute honesty, brought him a large practice.
At the close of the war he was chairman of the budget committee of the United States Railroad Administration to pass on plans for rail improvements in the East.
He also studied rapid transit in Philadelphia and means for handling suburban commutation into New York through underground terminals ("Solving Manhattan's Transportation Problem, " Civil Engineering, October 1930).
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He was also interested in hydro-electric power development and served on power boards in Pennsylvania and Ontario.
His recreations were golf and the cultivation of trees and shrubs.
He gave a large collection of these to Essex Fells, N. J. , where he made his home in his later years.
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Religion
The public, he said, was entitled to the best and cheapest transportation, and the railroads must be ready to cooperate with the buses and trucks ("The Engineer's Growing Civic Responsibilities, " Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol.
Politics
He represented the trunk lines as consultant for port matters in New York, the Canadian Pacific in Montreal, and was engaged as expert by New York, Baltimore, and Los Angeles, in connection with the correlation of shipping and railroad terminal facilities.
Connections
His parents died when he was two years old and the boy was brought up by his grandmothers and his uncle, a clergyman, in Georgetown, D. C.
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His wife, Anne Morson Rives, to whom he was married on Mar. 18, 1901, survived him, with their four daughters, Anne Morson, Emma Lee, Elizabeth Scott, and Rives; two sons died in childhood.
His wife, Anne Morson Rives, to whom he was married on Mar. 18, 1901, survived him, with their four daughters, Anne Morson, Emma Lee, Elizabeth Scott, and Rives; two sons died in childhood.
