Hocking
SILAS KITTO, an English novelist born in St. Stephen's, Cornwall, in 1850. He entered the Wesleyan ministry and resigned in 1896 to devote HÖDUR ington in 1865. He was educated at private schools and at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, from which he graduated in 1885. He acted as assistant engineer to several bridge building companies and designed many important bridges for railroads and for other purposes. He was engineer for the City of New York in the construction of a number of large bridges and aqueducts. He was consulting engineer for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit and for the New York and New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission, and many other corporations. He was public service commissioner for the State of New York in 1917. During the World War he acted as director of railways in France for the American Expeditionary Force.
He was a member of many scientific societies. Died Dec. 21, 1919.