Background
Skinner, Frank Woodward was born on June 6, 1858 in Brownville, New York, United States. Son of Horace and Harriet Emery Skinner.
Skinner, Frank Woodward was born on June 6, 1858 in Brownville, New York, United States. Son of Horace and Harriet Emery Skinner.
Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Cornell, 1879.
Assistant engineer Pittsburg Bridge Company, on reconstruction of Niagara Railroad suspension bridge. With Delaware Bridge Company. Bridge engineer New Jersey Steel & Iron Company.
Resident engineer Dominion Bridge Company, Montreal.
Engineer of bridges, Saint Paul & North.P. Railroad Company, building large bridges across Saint John's and Mississippi rivers. Practicing as consulting and expert constructional engineer since 1886, Associate editor The Engineering Record.
Since 1898, nonresident lecturer in charge of course in field engineering, College of Civil Engineering, Cornell Univercity. Lecturer on field engineering, McGill University, Yale, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute Technology, et cetera
Inventor of many important improvements in sheet piles, foundation construction, and reinforced concrete building design and construction.
Member American Society of Civil Engineers. Member Connecticut Civ. Engineers’ and Surveyors’ Association.
Married Rachel Sumner, of Buffalo, New York, September 7, 1881.