Tittman
OTTO HILGARD, an American geodesist, born in Belleville, Ill., in 1850. After a common school training he entered the service of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. In 1874 he went to Japan as an TITTONI assistant astronomer in the Transit of Venus expedition. In 1895 he was appointed assistant in charge of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey office, becoming superintendent in 1909, which position he resigned in 1915. He has at various times represented the United States in demarking the boundaries with Canada and was Commissioner of Northern Boundaries under the Treaty of 1908.