Background
Rowe, Walter Ellsworth was born on September 18, 1875 in Bristol, Indiana, United States. Son of Perry and Lydia Louisa (Weed) Rowe.
Rowe, Walter Ellsworth was born on September 18, 1875 in Bristol, Indiana, United States. Son of Perry and Lydia Louisa (Weed) Rowe.
Student of University of Oregon, 1891-1892. Bachelor of Science in Continuing education, University of Nebraska, 1896. Post-graduate work, University of Chicago, summers, 1899, 1900.
County superintendent schools, Greeley County, Nebraska, 1897-1898. Professor mathematics and commandant Cadets, Trinity Hall School, Louisville, Kentucky, 1898. Superintendent schools, White Sulphur Springs, Montana, 1898-1901.
Professor science, high schools, Butte, Montana, 1902-1903. Principal high school, Anaconda, Montana, 1903-1904. Professor mathematics and physics, University of New Mexico, 1904-1905.
Professor civil engineering, Oklahoma Agricultural and Mech. College, 1905-1906; dean College Civ. Engineering, University of Kentucky, 1906-1917.
Dean of engineering, University of South Carolina., 1917-1918. Head professor сivil engineering, Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, 1918-1919. Executive evening school Drexel Institute, 1919-1920.
Engineer, and manager John E. Hand & Sons Company, New Orleans and Baltimore, 1920-1922. Dean School of Engineering and director engineering experiment station, University of South Carolina., 1922. Now dean emeritus; partner Rowe & Chapman, design & consultant engrs., since 1950.
Consulting engineer South Carolina. Public Service Authority. Member Architectural Examination Board for South Carolina.
Organizer, and president Kentucky Civ. and Sanitary Engineering Association, 1916-1917. Member American Society of Civil Engineers, American Association Engineers, Society Promotion Engineering Education, Le Conte Scientific Society (president), Tau Beta Pi. Promoter state highway laws for Kentucky.
Chief of Road Material Survey for South Carolina. Appointed May 16, 1931, by South Carolina. Supreme Court, a member of Board of Rehabilitation Engineers for Columbia St. Railway System.
Member Architectural Examination Board for South Carolina. Organizer, and president Kentucky Civ. and Sanitary Engineering Association, 1916-1917. Member American Society of Civil Engineers, American Association Engineers, Society Promotion Engineering Education, Le Conte Scientific Society (president), Tau Beta Pi.
Promoter state highway laws for Kentucky.
Married Adaline Meech Hume, August 27, 1903. Children: Gilbert Hume, Gertrude Hume, Helen Hume, Ann Ellsworth (deceased).