Background
Holmes, Howard Carleton was born on June 10, 1854 in Island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Cornelius and Maria (Folger) Holmes.
Holmes, Howard Carleton was born on June 10, 1854 in Island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Cornelius and Maria (Folger) Holmes.
Removed with parents to San Francisco, California, 1860. Educational public schools. Technical training in office of city engineer, Oakland, California.
Assistant engineer to State Board of Harbor Commissioners of California until 1883. Consulting engineer, since 1883. Built ferry terminal at Alameda, cable rys., Portland, Spokane, Seattle, San Francisco, also electrical rys. in various cities on Pacific Coast.
Chief engineer State Board Harbor Commissioners of California, 1892-1901.
Designed and built ferry terminus of the San Francisco, Oakland & San Jose Railroad, pleasure pier at Long Beach, California. Designed yacht harbor and marine works, et cetera, for San Francisco Exposition, also all ferry slips in Bay of San Francisco.
Completed largest graving dock in the world, at Hunter’s Point, San Francisco Bay, for Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Inventor of cylinder pier of San Francisco water front.
Chief engineer San Francisco Dry Dock Company, South.F.O.& Society of Jesus (Jesuit) Railroad
Constructing engineer, docks and wharfs Western Pacific Railway, A.,T. & San Francisco, and California & North.W. rys. Consulting engineer Union Iron Works, et cetera
Married Josephine Bauer, 1883.