Background
WOODS, Robert Patterson was born on March 4, 1870 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Hamilton and Margaret Jane (Patterson) Woods.
City Plan Commission ViceChairman
WOODS, Robert Patterson was born on March 4, 1870 in Buffalo, New York, United States. Son of Thomas Hamilton and Margaret Jane (Patterson) Woods.
Graduate Buffalo Central High School, 1890.
With Henry L. Lyon, civil engineer, Buffalo, 1888-1891, as assistant engineer. Chief engineer, Queen City Electric Railway, Marion, Indiana, March-September 1891. City engineer, Wabash, Indiana, 1891-1901, and during same period in private practice on water works, bridge work and sewer design.
Chief engineer construction Wabash River Traction line (19 miles), 1900, Indianapolis, Shelbyville, Southeastern Traction line (27 miles), 1901, Indianapolis & Northwestern Traction line (92 miles), 1902-1904 Lebanon-Thornton Traction Company (10 miles), 1905, Indianapolis & Western Railway Company traction lines (74 miles), 1906-1908. Irrigation projects in New Mexico, 1910-1911. Chief engineer construction electric roead Kansas City to St. Joseph, Missouri, and Kansas City to Excelsior Springs, Missouri (80 miles), 1911-1913.
Member of the board of control Kansas City Rys. Company, 1914-1920; president, general manager Knights of Columbus,C.,C.&St.J. Railway Company, 1920-1930, receiver 1930-1936. President Consumers Tie Service Company.
Practicing as construction engineering President Midwest Electric Railway Association 1931-1932. President Research Hospital, 1922, 23. Director, since 1917.
Member and v. chairman City Plan Commission, 1920-1940. Street railway commissioner and director Kansas City Public Service Company, May 20, since 1940. Local War Transportation administrator, 1942-1946.
Clubs: Kansas City, Mission Hills Country, Engineers (Kansas City).
Married Bertha Dicken, October 10, 1894. Children: Dorothy (Mistress Lester D. Castle), Robert Dicken (deceased), Helen (Mistress Ansel N. Mitchell).