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John Cresson Trautwine was born on March 30, 1810 in Philadelphia, Pa. He was the son of William and Sarah (Wilkinson) Trautwine.
As a youth he showed a marked fondness for the sciences, particularly physics and mineralogy, and a part of his education was acquired under the direction of the meteorologist James P. Espy.
When eighteen years of age, Trautwine entered the office of William Strickland, the most prominent civil engineer and architect of his day in Pennsylvania. While receiving his technical training here, he performed services in connection with the construction of the Delaware Breakwater and the erection of various public buildings, including the United States Mint.
The development of railroad systems, which was just then beginning, offered special opportunities for a young engineer, and Trautwine was quick to take advantage of them. In 1831 he secured a position on the Philadelphia section of the Columbia Railroad, and was employed on various less important works until 1835, when he was appointed assistant engineer of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad. In 1836 he became chief engineer of the Hiwassee Railroad, then being projected between points in Tennessee and Georgia, and in 1838 established his residence in Knoxville, Tenn. , with his bride, Eliza Ritter, daughter of Jacob Ritter, Jr. , of Philadelphia. The financial difficulties of the times having seriously affected the construction of this railroad, in 1843 Trautwine returned to Philadelphia. The following year he sailed for New Granada (Colombia), South America, where for five years he was engaged with George M. Totten in the construction of the Canal del Dique, connecting the Magdalena River with the harbor of Cartagena.
At the expiration of that time he went back to Philadelphia, where he was employed for a brief period in surveying work, but late in 1849 left for the Isthmus of Panama to make surveys, in association with Totten, for the Panama Railroad. These he carried on successfully in a tropical region which presented the most difficult problems and innumerable perils to health and life. A copy of the map of the Isthmus which he prepared appeared in the Journal of the Franklin Institute (January 1871).
He returned to Philadelphia in 1851, but in April of the year following went back to the Isthmus to seek an inter-oceanic canal route. He spent several months in ascending the Atrato River to its source and in exploring its principal tributaries. Crossing the divide between the Atrato and the San Juan, he descended the latter river to the Pacific, later recrossing the range at several points to locate the lowest section of the divide. He finally decided upon a canal route from the Atrato River at Vigia Cubarador, to Cupica Bay on the Pacific Ocean as "the least inadvisable. "
In Trautwine's time the causes of malaria and other tropical diseases were unknown, and for this reason it is probable that a canal across the Isthmus could not then have been constructed. His own work, in the face of these and other perils was one of the most difficult and dangerous undertakings upon which an engineer could venture. In the succeeding years Trautwine was engaged in varied important enterprises.
He surveyed the Lackawanna & Lanesboro Railroad (1856); surveyed a route for an inter-oceanic railway in Honduras (1857); planned a system of docks for Montreal (1858), and a harbor for Big Glace Bay, Nova Scotia (1864); and served as consultant on various engineering problems.
In 1871 he published the first edition of his justly famous Engineers' Pocket Book, a work which was immediately received with unbounded favor by the engineering profession the world over and held its own in competition with other handbooks of similar character for many years.
He died in Philadelphia in 1883.
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Quotations: In the summary of his report published in the Journal of the Franklin Institute (March-May, July-November 1854) he says: "I have crossed it (the Isthmus) both at the site of the Panama Railroad and at three other points more to the South. From all I could see, combined with all I have read on the subject, I cannot entertain the slightest hope that a ship-canal will ever be found practicable across any part of it. "
While doing engineering on the Coal Run Railroad in Pennsylvania, he lost an arm, but the loss in no wise lessened his activity. After 1864 he appears to have taken life less strenuously, his health having undoubtedly been affected by his previous labors.
He married Eliza Trautwine. He was survived by two sons.