Report Of The Treasurer Of The Committee Of Relief For The Sufferers By The Fall Of The Pemberton Mill, In Lawrence, Massachusetts (1860)
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A Treatise on Water-Works for Conveying and Distributing Supplies of Water: With Tables and Examples (Classic Reprint)
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Charles Storer Storrow was a prominent American civil engineer and industrialist. He is known for designing and building the dam and textile mill complex in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Background
Charles was born on March 25, 1809 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. He was a son of Thomas Wentworth and Sarah Phipps (Brown) Storrow. His mother was of old New England stock, as was his paternal grandmother, Ann (Appleton), who in 1777 married Capt. Thomas Storrow of the British army, then a prisoner of war. They subsequently lived in England, the West Indies, and Canada, but returned to Boston in 1795, where Thomas Wentworth Storrow became a successful merchant.
Education
He attended a school in Boston. Soon, however, his father removed the family to Paris, France, where the boy attended a private school. He returned to New England, however, to receive his college preparation at the Round Hill School, Northampton, Massachussets, and graduated from Harvard, first in his class, in 1829. In his senior year he began the study of civil engineering with Loammi Baldwin, and some months after his graduation, entered the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees in Paris. After two years here he spent some time studying engineering works in France and Great Britain.
Career
Upon his return to Boston in 1832 Storrow became an engineer with the Boston & Lowell Railroad, then just beginning construction. He directed the running of the first train, drawn by the locomotive Stephenson from Boston to Lowell and return, May 27, 1835, and upon completion of the road the following year became its manager. In addition to his work in this capacity, he investigated the quantity of water utilized by the Lowell mills, and in 1835 he published a Treatise on Water-Works - something of a pioneer in its field.
Ten years later he resigned his railroad position to become engineer, treasurer, and agent for the Essex Company at Lawrence, Massachussets. Showing broad appreciation of the work before him, he planned wisely for the long future.
In 1853, when Lawrence was incorporated as a city, he was made its first mayor. Storrow's work at Lawrence brought him into close association with Abbott Lawrence, who was president of the Essex Company, and when the latter, in 1847, took steps toward the formation of the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard, he tried to persuade Storrow to assume charge of the school as professor of engineering. Storrow declined this position, however, not desiring to leave his work at Lawrence.
In 1860, though maintaining his connection with the Lawrence enterprise, he established his home in Boston. He served in 1861 as engineer member of the state commission on the drainage of the Sudbury and Concord meadows, and in 1862, as consulting engineer, went to Europe to study tunnels for the Hoosac Tunnel Commission, in his report, dated November 28, 1862, advising the Commission upon plans and methods for the construction of the tunnel.
At the age of eighty he retired, resigning his position with the Essex Company. Storrow died in his ninety-sixth year, at Boston.
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Membership
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He was also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Connections
On October 3, 1836, Storrow married Lydia Cabot Jackson, daughter of Dr. James Jackson of Boston. They had four daughters and three sons, one of whom was James Jackson Storrow.