Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1858, 29 June | Born, Brooklyn, N.Y. |
| 1880 | Graduated, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
| 1880-1882 | Student officer, Engineering School of Application, Willets Point, N.Y. |
| 1882-1884 | Engineer officer, Department of Columbia, Vancouver, Wash. |
| 1884 | Married Josephine "Effie" Rodman |
| 1884-1885 | Engineer officer, improvements on the Ohio River for navigation, Cincinnati, Ohio |
| 1885-1889 | Instructor and assistant professor of civil and military engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
| 1889-1894 | Engineer officer, improvements on the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers, and in charge of completion of the Muscle Shoals Canal and construction of the Colbert Shoals Lock, Nashville, Tenn. and Florence, Ala. |
| 1894-1898 | Assistant to chief of engineers, United States Army, Washington D.C. |
| 1898 | Chief engineer, First United States Army Corps, Chickamauga Park, Ga. and campaign in Puerto Rico |
| 1898-1900 | Instructor of practical military engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. |
| 1900-1903 | Engineer officer in charge of river and harbor works, Block Island to Nantucket, and the fortifications of Narragansett Bay and New Bedford, Mass. |
| 1903-1907 | Member, General Staff, United States Army |
| 1905 | Graduated, United States Army War College Accompanied Secretary of War William H. Taft on an inspection trip to the Isthmus of Panama |
| 1907 | Appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as chairman and chief engineer, Isthmian Canal Commission |
| 1907-1914 | Chief engineer, construction of the Panama Canal |
| 1909 | Promoted to colonel, United States Army |
| 1914-1917 | Governor, Panama Canal Zone |
| 1915 | Promoted to major general, United States Army |
| 1916 | Chairman of the board appointed to report on the Adamson Eight-Hour Law |
| 1917 | General manager, United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corp. Acting quartermaster general, United States Army |
| 1918 | Chief, Division of Purchase, Storage and Traffic, United States Army Awarded Distinguished Service Medal for meritorious service in reorganizing the Quartermaster Department, United States Army |
| 1919-1923 | President and head engineer, George W. Goethals and Co., New York, N.Y. |
| 1922 | Fuel administrator of New York during anthracite coal miner's strike |
| 1923-1928 | Consulting engineer on projects such as Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, New Orleans, La.; Columbia Basin Irrigation Project; East Bay Municipal Utility District of Oakland, Calif; and Lake Worth Inlet District in Florida. Chief consulting engineer, New York-Jersey Port and Harbor Commission (later Port of New York Authority) |
| 1928, Jan. 21 | Died, New York, N.Y. |