Civil engineer; born in
Moscow, Russia, March 24, 1841; educated there and in
Hamilton, Canada; graduated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, N. Y., in 1860; and became assistant engineer of the
Brooklyn waterworks; in 1861-65 he was assistant engineer of the
Croton waterworks, New York; in 1865-71
Professor of Geodesy and Road Engineering in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; in 1871-75
Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering in Lehigh University; and in 1875 was called to the chair of Civil Engineering and Applied Mathematics in Princeton University.
In 1885 he became editor of
Smith's topographical drawing.
