Background
Wilson, Herbert Michael was born on August 23, 1860 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Henry and Ellen (Yeates) Wilson.
Wilson, Herbert Michael was born on August 23, 1860 in Glasgow, Scotland. Son of Henry and Ellen (Yeates) Wilson.
Studied at Plainfield, New Jersey, and Cooper Union, New New York Civil Engineer, Columbia School Mines, 1881.
Thom Williamson, November 16, 1893. Railway engineer in Mexico, 1881-1882. On United States Geological Survey as topographer, 1882-1888, irrigation engineer, 1889-1891, as geographer, 1892-1906, chief engineer technologic branch, 1907-1909, engineer in charge, United States bureau of Mines, 1910-1914.
Director department of inspection and safety, The Associated Insurance Companies, 1915-1919.
General manager of same, since 1919. Has lectured extensively on irrigation, geography, fuel testing, smoke abatement, mine fires and rescue, fireproof building construction, swamp reclamation, et cetera
Author: Manual of Irrigation Engineering, 1893. Topographic Surveying, 1899.
American Civil Engineers’ Pocket Book.
Home: Sewickley, Pennsylvania
Married Elizabeth, daughter