Background
Stearns, Frederic Pike was born on November 11, 1851 in Calais, Maine, United States. Son of William Henry Clark and Mary Hobbs (Hill) Stearns.
Stearns, Frederic Pike was born on November 11, 1851 in Calais, Maine, United States. Son of William Henry Clark and Mary Hobbs (Hill) Stearns.
Preparatory education Calais High School. (honorary Master of Arts, Harvard, 1905. Doctor of Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1906).
In city surveyor’s office, Boston, 1869-1872. Investigation, construction and maintenance additional water supply for Boston, 1872-1880. Construction and maintenance Boston main drainage works, 1880-1886.
Chief engineer Massachusetts State Board of Health, 1886-1895.
Member of the board of sanitary engineers to devise system of sewerage for District of Columbia, 1889-1890. Chief engineer Massachusetts Metropolitan Water Works, 1895-1907.
Consulting engineer Charles River Basin Commission, 1903-1910, Board of Water Supply, New York, 1905-1914. Member board of consultant engineers for Panama Canal, 1905-1906.
Member board to devise system of sewage disposal for Baltimore, 1905-1906.
Member board to examine and report on water supply for Los Angeles, 1906. Member board consulting engineers accompanying Secretary of War William H. Taft, to Panama, 1907 and 1909. Member board to report on additional water supply for Baltimore, 1908-1909.
Member board to report on water supply for Winnipeg, 1913.
Consulting engineer new water supply for Providence, since 1914.
Member of the board of sanitary engineers to devise system of sewerage for District of Columbia, 1889-1890. Member board of consultant engineers for Panama Canal, 1905-1906. Member board to devise system of sewage disposal for Baltimore, 1905-1906.
Member board to examine and report on water supply for Los Angeles, 1906.
Member board consulting engineers accompanying Secretary of War William H. Taft, to Panama, 1907 and 1909. Member board to report on additional water supply for Baltimore, 1908-1909.
Member board to report on water supply for Winnipeg, 1913. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Addle C. Richardson, June 21, 1876.