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Title: Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. A.N. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Waterman, Arba N. (Arba Nelson), 1836-1917
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- History Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography Cook County (Ill.) -- History Cook County (Ill.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ving England and Wales, more than two hun-dred and fifty years ago. Some of the ancestral lines, as Stanton,Coffin, Macy and others, were established in America before 1650;his mothers line (Cadwalader) before 1700, and the paternal hneof Williams about sixty years later. The early ancestors landed firstin New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and North Carolina,where the great-grandfather, Robert Williams, settled. At least halfa dozen of the paternal forefathers named were among ten of thefirst settlers of the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and his pater-nal grandmother was of the famous Stanton family—an aunt ofEdwin M. Stanton, Lincolns historic secretary of war. RobertStanton, the founder of the American branch, settled in Rhode Islandabout 1640, having been born in England in 1599. Mr. Williams spent his life on a farm until his graduation fromthe University of Michigan in 1869, with the degrees of C. E. andM. E, His early inclination to the work of engineering led him to
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THE m\Y yoUkJUBLIC LIBRARY ■^S-roS,. LENOX ANDriLOEN FOUNDATIONS CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY 903 take the course which he selected at the University, and finally tomake engineering his life work. He came to Chicago in the year ofhis graduation, and for a brief period was employed in the privateoffice of E. S. Chesbrough, city engineer. Following a few monthsservice in the Alilwaukee city engineers office, he became connectedwith the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western and the Chicago, Bur-lington & Quincy railroads, in the work of locating and constructinglines in Wisconsin and Illinois. In 1872 he accepted a position withthe city of Chicago under City Engineer Chesbrough, continuing asassistant engineer, superintendent of sewerage and city engineer untilthe fall of 1878. While assistant engineer he had especial charge ofthe designing and construction of the Fullerton avenue conduit. Forseveral years after 1878 he was engaged in private practice, duringthis period designing and supe

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