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Lyman Edgar Cooley was born on December 05, 1850 in Canandaigua, New York, United States. He was the son of Albert Blake and Achsah (Griswold) Cooley.
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Lyman Edgar Cooley was born on December 05, 1850 in Canandaigua, New York, United States. He was the son of Albert Blake and Achsah (Griswold) Cooley.
Cooley graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1874 with a degree in civil engineering.
Cooley began his professional life as a teacher of engineering subjects at Northwestern University (1874 - 1877) and acted as the associate editor of the Engineering News for most of that period. After a year’s work as assistant engineer on the construction of a bridge over the Missouri River at Glasgow, Missouri, he had his first experience on waterway problems when, from 1879 to 1884, he served as assistant engineer on the Mississippi and Missouri river improvements.
In September 1884 he began a year’s work as editor, with Merrick Cowles, of the American Engineer. But at the end of a year he left the editorial field to devote himself to engineering features of waterway problems. He first achieved prominence in promoting the undertaking of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. He was the first chief engineer of the enterprise and when, through a political combination, he was replaced by another, he was elected one of the trustees of the district. His work in connection with the Sanitary District in Chicago was almost continuous from 1885 till within a year of his death, when failing eyesight gave him difficulty. He gave the initial form to the solution of the problems pertaining to the Chicago Sanitary Canal, its relation to lakes and rivers, its sanitary and constructive features; and his opinions and work met the test of experience and time.
In 1913, following the refusal of the Secretary of War to permit an increase in the diversion of water to 10, 000 cubic feet per second through the Canal, he prepared a volume containing a brief of the facts and issues, published under the title The Diversion of the Waters of the Great Lakes by Way of the Sanitary and Shift Canal of Chicago (1913). In 1895 Cooley had been appointed by President Cleveland a member of an International Commission to make investigations for a ship canal between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, and with James B. Angell of Michigan and John E. Russell of Massachusetts made the report that gave the first substantial basis to the engineering merits of that enterprise. From that time until his death he was prominent in connection with plans for deep-water navigation to the Lakes.
He was consulting engineer for the Lakes-to-the-Gulf Deep Waterway Association for several years; served as an advisory engineer in an investigation for the Erie Canal; was a consultant for the Denver Union Water Company on the Cheesman Dam. He was interested in the Isthmian Canal problem, visited Panama and Nicaragua as consulting engineer with the contractors’ and engineers’ expedition, and in 1902 published Isthmian Canal. He also served as a member of the United States Postal Committee on Pneumatic Tubes for mail in cities. He also lectured on waterway problems.
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Cooley was active in the Society of Western Engineers, serving a year as its president, and in the American Waterworks Association.
In 1874 in December Cooley was married to Lucena McMillan.