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Alfred Noble

Civil Engineer

Centurion, 1905–1914

Born 7 August 1844 in Livonia, Michigan

Died 19 April 1914 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York

Proposed by George Gibbs and Theodore Cooper

Elected 2 December 1905 at age sixty-one

Century Memorial

Alfred Noble, a famous engineer, as a youth served for three years in the Army of the Potomac. Graduating as civil engineer from the University of Michigan in 1870, he was shortly put in charge of improvements in the St. Mary’s Falls Canal and River. He was next General Assistant Engineer of the Northern Pacific, and later Chief Engineer of the Eastern Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was a member of the Nicaragua Canal Board of ’95, of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and of the Board of Consulting Engineers of the Panama Canal, and President of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1903. A modest, able man, his name expressed his character.

Henry Osborn Taylor
1915 Century Association Yearbook