Background
Peckworth, Howard Faron was born on July 25, 1901 in Jersey City. Son of Charles Halsey and Sallie Hann (Faron) Peckworth.
Peckworth, Howard Faron was born on July 25, 1901 in Jersey City. Son of Charles Halsey and Sallie Hann (Faron) Peckworth.
Student Cornell Univercity, 1919-1922. Bachelor of Science, Princeton, 1926.
January 1973); children—Dana, Alice Wing (Mistress Philip Doctorate. Leiserson), Margaret (Mistress Alan Dean Parsons). Married second, Helen Schoneman Hansen, December 22, 1974. Engineer charge construction 8th Avenue Subway, New York City, 1926-1934.
Field engineer construction Frederick Snare Corporation, on Tygart River Reservoir Dam, Grafton, West Virginia, 1934-1936.
Resident engineer charge construction Inland dam Birmingham (Alabama) Industrial Water Supply Commission, 1936-1938. Construction plant designer Pacific Constructors, Incorporated., on Shasta Dam in Northern California, 1938-1939.
Senior engineer Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydroelectric Project, South Carolina., 1939-1941. Editor Civil Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1941-1942, assistant to secretary, 1942-1945.
Consultant American Concrete Pipe Association, American Concrete Pressure Pipe Association, United States Steel Corporation, several other large United States firms and various pipe manufacturers England, France, Australia, Japan.
Consultant drainage problems Irish Government, 1951.
Member Northeastern Illinois Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, 1957-1965. Member Washington Awards Commission, 1950-1952. Fellow American Society for Testing Materials (award of merit 1962).
Member American Society of Civil Engineers (director 1956-1960), American Water Works Association, Princeton Engineering Association (past
Clubs: Bohemian (San Francisco).
Married Martha Fessenden Dana, September 11, 1928 (deceased. Married second, Helen Schoneman Hansen, December 22, 1974. Children: Dana, Alice Wing (Mistress Philip Doctorate. Leiserson), Margaret (Mistress Alan Dean Parsons).