Daniel W. Mead

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Daniel W. Mead (1862–1948;) born in Fulton, N.Y. In 1904 he was made head of the Department of Hydraulics and Sanitary Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin. In the early 1900s he established the consulting firm Mead and Seastone, forerunner to the Madison engineering firm of Mead and Hunt. Mead became president of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1936, which recognizes him in the annual Daniel W. Mead essay contest. He designed hydroelectric plants. He was the first president of the Technical Club of Madison in 1921. He was appointed by President Calvin Coolidge in 1928 to the Colorado River Board commission to study the Hoover Dam project.

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• Involvement in Wisconsin's first large hydroelectric project
• History of Mead & Hunt consulting firm

• D.W. MEAD ELECTED BY CIVIL ENGINEERS; Former Professor at Wisconsin to Take Office at Convention of Society Here Today, New York Times, p. 13, Jan. 15, 1936
• ENGINEERS ASSAIL PUBLIC WORKS AIMS; Henry E. Riggs, D. W. Mead Tell Society Federal Projects Are Unsound Economically, New York Times, p. 14, Oct. 8, 1937