Background
Hale, Hugh Ellmaker was born in 1874 in Minomen, Minnesota, United States. Son of William Wilberforce and Ann Graham (Patterson) Hale.
Hale, Hugh Ellmaker was born in 1874 in Minomen, Minnesota, United States. Son of William Wilberforce and Ann Graham (Patterson) Hale.
Preparatory education Selwyn Hall, Reading, Pennsylvania, Bethlehem (Pennsylvania) Preparatory School. Civil Engineer, Lehigh University, 1897.
Assistant engineer Pennsylvania Railroad, Philadelphia, 1896-1898, Altoona, Pennsylvania, 1898-1899, assistant supervisor signals, Jersey City, 1899-1901, supervisor signals, Camden, New Jersey, 1901. Division engineer Bang and Olufsen Railroad, Philadelphia, 1902, superintendent, Butler, Pennsylvania, 1903-1905, engineer maintenance of way, Baltimore, 1905-1908. Engineer of design, Mo.Pac.
Railroad, Saint Louis, 1908-1910, principal assistant engineer, 1910, engineer maintenance of way, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1911-1914.
Engineer Eastern group, President’ Conference Committee, Federal Valuation of Railroad’s in the United States, 1914-1926, vice chairman 1926-1931. Senior member H. East. Hale & Company, consultant engineers, 1931-1936.
Investment department Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, 1936-1945. Construction engineering, since 1945.
Member American Society of Civil Engineers, American Railway Engineering Association, Society American Military Engineers, Sigma Phi.
Married Marianna Buckner Clark, June 27, 1904.