Background
William Henry Brown was born on February 29, 1836 in Little Britain Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His parents, Levi K. , and Hannah C. (Moore) Brown, were Quakers and people of limited means.
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William Henry Brown
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William was sent to the district public school and later to the Central High School in Philadelphia, but was unable to go to college. He was determined, however, to become a civil engineer. As a boy he had collected sticks to make axe handles, selling them to procure money to buy books on engineering. Eventually he saved enough money to purchase the most primitive of surveyor's instruments, a Jacob's staff, and he taught himself surveying by practising on the neighbors' farms with their deeds to guide him.
Career
At the close of the Civil War, in which Brown had rendered effective work of an engineering nature for the Union forces, he entered the employ of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to which he gave over forty years of continuous service (1864 - 1906). For the last twenty-five years of that time he was chief engineer.
No railroad chief engineer of his time had as much money at his disposal as Brown had as chief engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, especially after A. J. Cassatt became president of the company in 1899. Brown was a great believer in stone bridges, and wherever it was possible built them to take the place of steel ones.
At the risk of his own life he personally took charge of the work that opened up the railroad to bring relief to the sufferers. Brown's death, due to heart failure, occurred at Belfast, Ireland, where he was visiting with Mrs. Brown. His home, for many years, had been in Philadelphia.
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Among the important bridges that Brown constructed was one across the Susquehanna River, five miles west of Harrisburg--one of the longest bridges in the United States, and at the time of its construction the largest stone-arched bridge in the world. Some of the other operations of which Brown had charge were: improvements of the Company's terminals in Jersey City; rebuilding the Jersey City Station four times and the Jersey City Elevator; a bridge across the Hackensack River; the elevated road through Newark, New Brunswick, and Elizabeth; the Delaware River Bridge and Railroad, the grade-crossing tunnels at the Zoological Gardens, the piers and docks on the Delaware River front, and the Forty-first St. and Grand Avenue bridges, in Philadelphia, and a practically new line all the way from that city to Harrisburg. He also erected two new stations at Harrisburg and built the tunnel through the Alleghany Mountains at Gallitzen, Pennsylvania. His services during the Johnstown Flood should not be forgotten as well.
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His work included everything that pertains to the construction of a railroad--the building of great stations, tunnels, bridges, railroad shops and yards, piers and docks. He believed that the most important operation he ever undertook was the construction of the Broad Street Terminal and Station in Philadelphia.
He was especially proud of the construction of the train-shed there with sixteen tracks under one roof which was supported by twenty trusses set in pairs nine feet apart. It was almost twice the size of any trainshed in existence at the time of its construction.
Membership
Brown was a member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution.
Connections
On October 15, 1863, William Brown married Sarah A. Rimmel in Pittsburgh.
