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Harrison Prescott Eddy was born on April 29, 1870 in Millbury, Massachussets, United States. He was the eldest of three sons of William Justus and Martha Augusta (Prescott) Eddy. His father, the treasurer of a textile mill, was a direct descendant of John Eddy, who came from England to Plymouth Colony in 1630.
Young Eddy was educated in the public schools of Worcester, Massachussets, and at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 1891 with a B. S. degree in chemistry.
At the Institute Eddy studied under Leonard P. Kinnicutt, international authority in sanitary chemistry, and it was to this field that he turned his attention.
Immediately after his graduation he found employment in the sewer department of the city of Worcester, where he remained for sixteen years, for all but the first year as superintendent. During these years he constructed over 100 miles of sewers and drains, enlarged the chemical treatment plant, and added forty-three acres of intermittent sand filters to the disposal system. Meanwhile, in a further association with Kinnicutt, he was also making intensive studies of sewage treatment and stream pollution.
His successful operation of the Worcester plant in a period when sewage treatment was still largely in a pioneer stage in this country led, in 1906, to his appointment to serve on a board of engineers preparing plans for expansion and improvement of the Louisville, Kentucky, sewerage system. This was his first important consulting project.
In 1907, at the suggestion of Kinnicutt, Eddy joined forces with Leonard Metcalf, a civil engineer prominent in the field of water-works engineering, in what proved to be a long and fruitful partnership. With headquarters in Boston, they specialized in water supply and purification, sewage treatment and disposal, and disposal of industrial waste. Metcalf and Eddy began their practice at a time when few communities in the United States provided purified water and still fewer treated and disposed of sewage in a sanitary manner, a time when typhoid fever annually took 35, 000 lives.
During the next three decades the firm was retained by more than 125 cities and towns, including Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Dayton and Akron, Ohio, for which Eddy designed complete sewerage systems, and Fitchburg, Massachussets, where he designed and supervised construction of one of the first Imhoff trickling filter plants in the country. He was also employed as a consultant by such major cities as New Orleans, San Antonio, Boston, San Francisco, Buffalo, Cleveland, Milwaukee, and Toronto. Eddy was joint author with Metcalf of the standard three-volume study American Sewerage Practice (1914 - 15) and of a widely used text entitled Sewerage and Sewage Disposal (1922).
He was also a frequent contributor to the journals of the many technical and professional societies with which he was affiliated.
A logical and convincing speaker, Eddy was often sought as expert witness in important court cases involving interstate water disputes. His services were in great demand on engineering commissions, including the classic Engineering Board of Review of Chicago, appointed to investigate and report on the lake-lowering controversy and to work out a water supply and purification plan for the city.
As a member in 1932 of the committee on public works of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Eddy played an important part in helping to secure enactment of the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, which permitted setting up a huge construction program under the Public Works Administration. Eddy served the American Society of Civil Engineers in other capacities as well.
As one of its directors and as chairman of its committee on publications from 1928 to 1930 he was instrumental in the establishment in the latter year of the Society's monthly publication Civil Engineering. As president during the depths of the depression (1934) he devoted much of his time to investigations and studies aimed at the economic and professional betterment of his fellow engineers.
He was widely honored in the engineering profession. The final tribute that came to him was election to honorary membership in the Engineering Institute of Canada. He had gone to Montreal to receive this recognition when he was fatally stricken there with a heart attack.
He was buried in Hope Cemetery, Worcester.
Two of his papers winning special awards, the Desmond Fitzgerald Medal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers and the Norman Medal, most distinguished award of the American Society of Civil Engineers. In the field of sanitary engineering Eddy's contribution was in successfully operating one of the first sewage treatment plants in the United States and in designing and constructing treatment and purification facilities for so many cities and communities.
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He was a member in 1932 of the committee on public works of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
On June 1, 1892, Eddy had married Minnie Locke Jones of Worcester, by whom he had four children: Willard Jones, Harrison Prescott, Randolph Locke, and Charlotte Frances.
