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Mead, Elwood (1858 - 1936) |
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Civil engineer | |
Born: 16 January 1858 Patriot, Indiana, United States of America. Died: 26 January 1936 Washington, United States of America. | |
Elwood Mead was born in the USA and came to Australia to act as Chairman of the Victorian State Rivers and Water Supply Commission (1907 to 1915). Prior to this he worked at Colorado State Agricultural College, rapidly becoming Professor of Irrigation Engineering. He then went on to become State Engineer in Wyoming and Director of irrigation investigations with the Department of Agriculture (1899-1907). He worked part time for the University of California at Berkeley during this last post. Once Mead returned to the States in 1915 he took up a position of Professor of Rural Institutions at University of California. Lake Mead, near Boulder Dam, is named after him. |
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