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Waite, Henry Matson was born on May 15, 1869 in Toledo, Ohio, United States. Son of Henry Selden and Ione (Brown) Waite.
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Henry Matson Waite, American civil engineer. Awarded Distinguished Service Medal (United States); Officer Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur’Honneur (French). Member American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Railway Engineering Association; Club: Engineers.
Education
Graduate Toledo High School. Student Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Doctor of Laws, University of Miami.
Doctor of Engineering, University of Cincinnati.
Career
With C.,C.,C.&St. Louis Railway as transitman, 1890-1892, engineer maintenance of way, 1892-1893. Division engineer C.,N.O.&T.P. Railway, 1893. Bridge engineer, road-master and superintendent Cincinnati division, same road, 1899-1905, superintendent Chattanooga division, 1905-1907.
Superintendent Seaboard Air Line Railway, 1907-1909. Vice-president and chief engineer Clinchfield Coal Corporation, Dante, Virginia, 1909-1912. Chief engineer City of Cincinnati, 1912-1914.
City manager, Dayton, 1914-1918. Vice-president and chief engineer, Lord Construction County, New York, 1919-1920. President Lord Dry Dock Corporation, New York, 1920.
In private practice at New York, 1920-1927. Chief engineer Cincinnati Union Terminal Company, 1927-1933. Deputy administration of Public Works, July 1933-September, 1934.
Director Regional Department of Economic Security, Cincinnati, since September 1934. Private practice construction engineering since 1937. Chairman Chicago Subway Commission, Public Works Administration.
Chairman public works committee National Resources Committee Colonel of engrs. Transportation Corps, United States of America, with American Expeditionary Forces, 1918-1919. Served as chief engineer transactions Corps, assistant deputy general of transportation, 2d Army, in Advance Zone, and as a.d.g. transactions, 3d Army in Germany.
One of members of America Bridgehead Commission at Coblenz before arrival of America Army. Assistant to officer in charge civil affairs at advanced General Headquarters at Treves, Germany.
Membership
Member American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Railway Engineering Association. Club: Engineers.
Connections
Married Mary Mason Brown, April.
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Nationality
American