Jacobs, Charles M. (Charles Mattathias), 1850-1919
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found: Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Executive Dept. Office of Vice President. Records, 1866-1916(Charles Mattathias Jacobs; signature, Charles M. Jacobs; British civil engineer; b. June 8, 1850, Hull, Eng.; d. Sept. 7, 1919; designed tunnels for Pa. Railroad Co. under Hudson River, Manhattan Island, and the East River)
found: The Hudson River tunnels of the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company, advance proof, 1910:cover (Charles Mattathias Jacobs, member, Institution of Civil Engineers)
found: His obituary, in Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. 46 :p. 121-128 (Charles Mattathias Jacobs; born June 8, 1850 at Hull, England; died September 7, 1919 at Laugharne, Wales; civil and marine engineer, particularly noted for underwater tunneling; originally trained as a marine engineer; opened a practice at Cardiff, Wales, in 1874; moved to London in 1887 and formed a partnership with Herbert Barringer as Jacobs and Barringer that lasted until his death; in 1889, came to the United States as engineering consultant to Austin Corbin's railroad and mining interests, particularly the Long Island Railroad; in 1891 opened a New York office with his assistant J. Vipond Davies, later the partnership of Jacobs and Davies and the corporation of Jacobs and Davies, Incorporated; Jacobs retained a transatlantic and international practice until the end of 1915, when he retired from the New York office, which was continued by Davies; designed and supervised construction of the first underwater tunnels at New York City; chief engineer of the New York and Jersey Railroad Company, later the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad Company, for which he completed the first rail tunnel under the Hudson River; chief engineer of the North River Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad's New York terminal project, undertook projects in Paris and Le Havre, France, Burma, India, Mexico, etc.; member of Institution of Civil Engineers, 1885-1919 and American Society of Civil Engineers, 1904-1919)
found: National cyclopedia of American biography, vol. 29:p. 358 (entry for John Vipond Davies; Davies and Jacobs formed the engineering partnership of Jacobs & Davies in 1894, which was incorporated in 1909)
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