William Harrison Kavanaugh

Background

Kavanaugh, William Harrison was born on August 19, 1873 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Daniel and Emma (Ramsey) Kavanaugh.

Education

Mechanical Engineering, Lehigh University, 1894.

Career

Principal Miners and Mechanics Institute, Freeland, Pennsylvania, 1894-1895. Mercantile business, Williamsport, 1895-1897. Instructor mechanic engineering, University of Illinois, 1897-1898.

Draftsman and chief draftsman Pennsylvania Railroad, 1898-1901.

Instructor mechanic engineering, and assistant professor experimental engineering, University of Minnesota, 1901-1907, professor experimental engineering, 1907-1916. Professor experimental engineering, University of Pennsylvania, since 1916, also consultant practice and servicing as engineering expert in many cases of patent and other litigation.

Achievements

• William Harrison Kavanaugh has been listed as a noteworthy engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Examination Board Civil Service Commission, Minneapolis, 1913-1916. Member International Jury of Awards, Panama-Pacific Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, and Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1926. Member of commission, Chicago, to report on “mushroom” system of concrete construction, 1913.

Connections

Married Julia Sara Vogt, February 20, 1896. Children: Emma Cosette (wife of William Harry Regelman, Doctor of Medicine), William Ramsey.

Father:

Daniel Kavanaugh

Mother:

Emma (Ramsey) Kavanaugh

Spouse:

Julia Sara Vogt

child:

Doctor of Medicine) Kavanaugh

child:

Emma Cosette (wife of William Harry Regelman Kavanaugh

child:

William Ramsey Kavanaugh