Background
Tillson, George William was born on December 18, 1852 in Thomaston, Maine, United States. Son of Perez and Harrriet (Collins) Tillson.
Tillson, George William was born on December 18, 1852 in Thomaston, Maine, United States. Son of Perez and Harrriet (Collins) Tillson.
Civil Engineer, Bowdoin College, 1877, Doctor of Science, 1910.
Abbott. Assistant engineer in charge sewer costrn., Memphis, Tennessee, 1880. Made plans and constructed sewer system, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1880-1881. In charge paving and sewer construction, Omaha, Nebraska, 1881-1887.
City engineer, 1887-1892.
Assistant engineer in charge pavements, 1895-1902, Brooklyn. Chief engineer bureau of Highways, Borough of Brooklyn, 1902-1907.
Chief engineer bureau of Highways, Borough of Manhattan, New York City, 1907-1911. Construction engineering Department of Public Works, Borough of Brooklyn, New York, May 1, 1911-July 1918.
Actg. commissioner of public works, Borough of Brooklyn, 1913-1914.
President of the board directors Louisiana Grange Public Library, since 1936.
Member communications of engineers of America Society of Civil Engineers, to visit France, 1918, to confer with a French congress for reconstruction work after the war.
Married Mary East. Abbott, October 5, 1887.