Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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JOHN L. CA5LY I N July, 1882, started with the Albany Analine and Chemical Works as Assistant Chemist. In 1885 became Superintendent of the same, and remained with them until 1889, when the Works were destroyed by fire. Then I removed to New York where I was em¬ ployed as Consulting Chemist in the textile and paper industries until 1893. In that year I went to turope to make a special study of the chemistry of the leather industry, going first to Vienna and then to Freiberg, Saxony, where I worked out a mineral tan¬ ning process, which I disposed of to one of the largest German leather houses,— that of F. G. Sohee. Have been with this concern since January 1, 1896. Although the fourteen years that I have lived here have passed very rapidly, it is my intention to return to America at no distant date. Was married in 1897 to a Dresden lady.

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HERBERT W. COWAN F ROM August, 1882, to January, 1883, was in an architect’s office in Worcester. Then Moore tempted me to come West. Landed in Winnipeg and enlisted in an expedi¬ tion for the Northwest Territory to sub-divide government lands. After several months I joined a party headed by Moore and made for the United States. Landed in St. Paul in November, 1883, and became topographer on the Burlington road. In December, 1884, was in Chief Engineer’s office in La Crosse as draftsman, and remained until July, 1886, when 1 was transferred to Colorado, where I joined a surveying party and was in the Rocky Mountains from July, 1886, to February, 1887. From May to December, 1887, was reconnoitering a line to Los Angeles. Later, I made a trip of 1,400 miles with bronchos and buckboard, through Yellowstone Park in 60 days. September 1, 1888, went to work as Assistant Engineer on the Union Pacific, Colorado Division. Later, was Resident Engineer for one of the divisions. Am now Consulting Engineer for the Colorado Southern System. Was married about ten years ago, and have a boy a year old.