Thomas Curtis Clarke

Not to be confused with poet and composer Thomas Curtis Clarke, or U.S Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark.

Thomas Curtis Clarke (16 September 1827 – 15 June 1901)^[1] was a railway engineer, builder and author best known for a series of cast iron bridges in the United States. While living and working in Port Hope, Ontario, his firm won the contract to build the east and west blocks of the Canadian Houses of Parliament. Thomas Curtis Clarke is buried in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada.

"The world of today differs from that of Napoleon Bonaparte more than his world differed from that of Julius Caesar, and this change has chiefly been made by engineering.
— Thomas Curtis Clarke^[2]

Life

Early work

Clarke was born in Newton, Massachusetts on 16 September 1827 and as a boy he attended the Boston Latin School. He enrolled at Harvard University, graduating in 1848 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in engineering, working under Captain John Child.^[1]^[3]

References

Notes

↑ 1.0 1.1 Times
↑ Brown
↑ Griggs 2008

Bibliography

Frank Griggs Jr., "Thomas C. Clarke", STRUCTUREmag", May 2008
(Times), "THOMAS CURTIS CLARKE DEAD.; Was One of line Most Widely Known Civil Engineers in America.", New York Times, 17 June 1901
Alan Brown, "Thomas Curtis Clarke 1827-1901", Ontario's Historical Plaques

"Who Was T.C. Clarke, C.E.", SSAC Bulletin, Vol. 17, No. 4, December 1992, Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (article by Jim Leonard; this research provided the impetus, in 1993, for the Ontario Heritage Trust to erect a 'blue and gold' provincial heritage plaque in downtown Port Hope.)

Presidents of the American Society of Civil Engineers

1853–1879	James Laurie (1853–1867) James Pugh Kirkwood (1868) William Jarvis McAlpine (1868–1869) Alfred Wingate Craven (1870–1871) Horatio Allen (1872–1873) Julius Walker Allen (1874–1875) George Sears Greene (1876–1877) Ellis Sylvester Chesbrough (1878) William Milnor Roberts (1879)

1880–1899	Albert Fink (1880) James Bicheno Francis (1881) Ashbel Welch (1882) Charles Paine (1883) Don Juan Whittemore (1884) Frederic Graff (1885) Henry Flad (1886) William Ezra Worthen (1887) Thomas Coltrin Keefer (1888) Max Joseph Becker (1889) William Powell Shinn (1890) Octave Chanute (1891) Mendes Cohen (1892) William Metcalf (1893) William Price Craighill (1894) George Shattuck Morison (1895) Thomas Curtis Clarke (1896) Benjamin Morgan Harrod (1897) Alphonse Fteley (1898) Desmond Fitzgerald (1899)

1900–1919	John Findley Wallace (1900) John James Robertson Croes (1901) Robert Moore (1902) Alfred Noble (1903) Charles Hermany (1904) Charles Conrad Schneider (1905) Frederic Pike Stearns (1906) George Henry Benzenberg (1907) Charles Macdonald (1908) Onward Bates (1909) John Anderson Bensel (1910) Mordecai Thomas Endicott (1911) John Agustus Ockerson (1912) George Filmore Swain (1913) Hunter McDonald (1914) Charles David Marx (1915) Elmer Lawrence Corthell (1916) Clemens Herschel (1916) George Herndon Pegram (1917) Arthur Newell Talbot (1918) Fayette Samuel Curtis (1919)

1920–1939	Arthur Powell Davis (1920) George Smedley Webster (1921) John Ripley Freeman (1922) Charles Fredrick Loweth (1923) Carl Ewald Grunsky (1924) Robert Ridgeway (1925) George Stewart Davison (1926) John Frank Stevens (1927) Lincoln Bush (1928) Anson Martson (1929) John Francis Coleman (1930) Francis Lee Stuart (1931) Herbert Samuel Crocker (1932) Alonzo John Hammond (1933) Harrison Prescott Eddy (1934) Arthur Smith Tuttle (1935) Daniel Webster Mead (1936) Louis Clarence Hill (1937) Henry Earle Riggs (1938) Donald Hubbard Sawyer (1939)

1940–1959	John Phillip Hogan (1940) Fredrick Hall Fowler (1941) Ernest Bateman Black (1942) Ezra Bailey Whitman (1943) Malcolm Pirnie (1944) John Cyprian Stevens (1945) Wesley Winans Horner (1946) Edgar Morton Hastings (1947) Richard Erwin Dougherty (1948) Franklin Thomas (1949) Ernest Emmanuel Howard (1950) Gail Abner Hathaway (1951) Carlton Springer Proctor (1952) Walter Leroy Huber (1953) Daniel Voiers Terrell (1954) William Roy Glidden (1955) Enoch Ray Needles (1956) Mason Graves Lockwood (1957) Louis Richard Howson (1958) Francis de Sales Friel (1959)

1960–1979	Frank Alwyn Marston (1960) Glenn Willis Holcomb (1961) George Brooks Earnest (1962) Edmund Friedman (1963) Waldo Gleason Bowman (1964) Wallace Lacy Chadwick (1965) William Joseph Hedley (1966) Earle Topley Andrews (1967) Richard Henry Tatlow III (1968) Frank Hastings Newnam, Jr. (1969) Thomas McMaster Niles (1970) Samuel Serson Baxter (1971) Oscar Simon Bray (1972) John Elmer Rinne (1973) Charles William Yoder (1974) William McCoy Sangster (1975) Arthur Joseph Fox, Jr. (1976) Leland Jasper Walker (1977) William Read Gibbs (1978) Walter Emanuel Blessey (1979)

1980–1999	Joseph Simeon Ward (1980) Irvan Frank Mendenhall (1981) James Redding Sims (1982) John H. Wiedeman (1983) S. Russell Stearns (1984) Richard W. Karn (1985) Robert Dewey Bay (1986) Daniel Bythewood Barge, Jr. (1987) Albert Abraham Grant (1988) William J. Carroll (1989) John A. Focht, Jr. (1990) James E. ""Tom"" Sawyer (1991) Celestino R. ""Chuck"" Penoni (1992) James E. McCarty (1993) James W. Poirot (1994) Stafford E. Thornton (1995) Charles A. Parthum (1996) Edward O. Groff (1997) Luther W. Greaf (1998) Daniel S. Turner (1999)

2000–present	Delon Hampton (2000) Robert W. Bein (2001) H. Gerard Schwartz, Jr. (2002) Thomas L. Jackson (2003) Patricia D. Galloway (2004) William P. Henry (2005) Dennis R. Martenson (2006) William F. Marcuson III (2007) David G. Mongan (2008) D. Wayne Klotz (2009) Blaine D. Leonard (2010)