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Wallace (JOHN FINDLEY American civil)

JOHN FINDLEY, American civil engineer, born at Fall River, Mass., in 1852. He was educated at Monmouth (Ill.) College and at the University of Wooster, and received honorary degrees from Monmouth_College and from Armour Institute. From 1871 to 1876 he was assistant United States engineer on the upper Mississippi river, and in connection with the im- States engineer on the upper Mississippi provements of the Rock Island rapids.

Beginning with 1878 and until 1904 he was connected in various capacities with several mid-Western railroads, the greater part of this time being spent in several mid-Western railroads, the was connected in various capacities with the service ice of the Illinois Central railroad, of which he was general manager from 1901 to 1904. In the latter year he became the first American chief from 1901 to 1904. In the latter year road, of which he was general manager the service of the Illinois Central railengineer of the Panama Canal. In 1905 he was made an Isthmian Canal Commissioner and vice-president and general he was made an Isthmian Canal Com- engineer of the Panama Canal. In 1905 HUGH C. WALLACE manager of the Panama Railroad and Steamship Company. From 1906 to 1917 he was president and chairman of the board of directors of Westinghouse, WALLACE Church, Kerr & Company. He also designed and constructed the terminals of the World's Fair at Chicago, the new passenger terminals for the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad at Chicago, and acted at various times as adviser and consultant to large corporations.

He was president of the American Society Railway Engineering Association, as well of Civil Engineers and of the American as a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers of Great Britain.