Background
Chambers, Ralph Hamilton was born on April 17, 1871 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States. Son of Robert Hamilton and Alice Cornell (Wheelock) Chambers.
Chambers, Ralph Hamilton was born on April 17, 1871 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, United States. Son of Robert Hamilton and Alice Cornell (Wheelock) Chambers.
Civil Engineer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1893. Doctor Engineering, 1937.
Assistant engineer, Troy Water Commission, 1893-1894. Assistant engineer, King Bridge Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1894-1896, engineer and manager Boston office, 1896-1899. Member firm Chambers & Hone, consultant engineers, New York City, 1900-1910.
Assistant chief engineer, The Foundation Company, construction engineers, New York City, 1911, chief engineer, 1911-1914.
Also general manager, 1914. Vice-president and chief engineer Jarrett Chambers Company, engineering contractors, New York City, 1915-1926.
Construction engineering, 1926-1929. Vice president The Foundation Company, 1929-1938.
Construction engineering 1938-1940.
Vice-president and director The Foundation Company, 1940-1943, construction engineering since 1943.
Member American Society of Civil Engineers, Renssaelaer Society Engineers, Sigma Xi. Clubs: Engineers, Century. Designer of plans or construction or both, of the difficult foundations for high buildings in New New York
Married Corinne Martin Darling, May 27, 1896. Children: Corinne Martin, Robert Hamilton.