Background
Causey, William Bowdoin was born on June 24, 1865 in Suffolk, Virginia, United States. Son of Charles Henry and Martha Josephine (Prentis) Causey.
Causey, William Bowdoin was born on June 24, 1865 in Suffolk, Virginia, United States. Son of Charles Henry and Martha Josephine (Prentis) Causey.
Educated private schools. Unmarried.
Began as chairman Atlantic & Danville Railroad, Virginia, 1883. With engineering departments various rys., including United Presbyterian Railway, New York,New Hampshire (U.S.)&H. Railroad, C.&North.W., C.&A. Railroad, C.G.W. Railroad, also was chief engineer East.J.&East. Railway, superintendent Illinois lines C.&A. Railroad, superintendent C.G.W. Railway. Vice-president and general manager Norwood-White Coal Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1914-1917.
City manager Norfolk, Virginia, 1923-1925.
Then vice president White Construction Company and M. East. White Company, general contractors, Chicago. Commissioned captain engineers, June 13, 1917, and assigned to 17th Engineers, United States of America.
Landed in France August 1917. Major, March 1918; lieutenant colonel, September 1918.
Member American section Inter-Allied Mission sent to Vienna from Paris by Supreme War Council to investigate financial, economic and fuel transportation conditions in former Austro-Hungarian Empire, December 1918-July 1919.
Was coal and transportation expert of the Mission, president Allied Railway Mission, Austro-Hungary, January-October 1919. Technical adviser to Austrian Government, September 1919-July 1923. Then lieutenant colonel O.R.C., United States of America Assistant United States commissioner to Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago, July 1932-April 15, 1935.
Mason.
