Background
TONKIN Thomas, Juan was born on June 10, 1875 in Chile. Son of John Ford Tonkin and Julia Thomas Richards.
TONKIN Thomas, Juan was born on June 10, 1875 in Chile. Son of John Ford Tonkin and Julia Thomas Richards.
Draughtsman in the Geographic Department of the Bureau of Public Works of Santiago, 1892. Subsequently calculator of the Hydrographic Office and engineer of the Fiscal Nitrate Delegation. Draughtsman in the Green Point (United States.A.) workshops of the American Bridge Company.
Contracting engineer of the firm of Milliken Brothers (United States.A.), in which position he was in charge of the steel structure of the International Banking Corporation Building, the Hippodrome Theater, and part of the Singer Building, New York, as well as of several bridges of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, a viaduct of the International Paper Company, et cetera
Engineer and associate of the firm of J. G. White and Company of New York and London. Representative of the Chilean Contracting Company, a syndicate formed by him for presenting tenders for the Arica-Louisiana Paz Railway.
Organized the Compañía Nacional de Fuerza Eléctrica. Also vicepresident and general director of the same.
Vice-president of the Compañía Chilena de Electricidad, Limitada
(formed by the merger of the Compañía Nacional de Fuerza Eléctrica and of the Chilean Electric Tramway and Light Company). President of the Compañía de Tracciónew york Alumbrado of Santiago. Principal Constructions: Cathedral of Valparaiso (unfinished fer lack of funds).
Church of the Redemptionist Fathers of Santiago.
American Society of Civil Engineers. Instituto de Ingenieros. Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura.
Sociedad de Artes y Oficios.
Married Julia Dublé. Children: Juan Raúl and Inéson