Francis Trenholm Crowe ( ( 1882-10-12 ) October 12, 1882 – ( 1946-02-26 ) February 26, 1946) was a Canadian civil engineer and employee of Morrison-Knudsen , who later became in 1931, the General Construction Superintendent of the Hoover Dam construction contract.
13-456: Wattis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Edmund Orson Wattis Jr. (1855–1934), American businessman Edmund Wattis Littlefield (1914–2001), American businessman Phyllis Wattis (1905–2002), American art patron Richard Wattis (1912–1975), British actor William Henry Wattis (1859–1931), American businessman [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
26-640: A civil engineer with the United States Bureau of Reclamation . He signed up for a summer job before the end of the lecture. That summer job began a 20-year career with the reclamation service that would change the face of the American west. In 1924, Frank Crowe left the United States Bureau of Reclamation to join the construction firm of Morrison-Knudsen in Boise, Idaho . Morrison-Knudsen had recently signed
39-643: A heart attack on February 26, 1946. He had a wife, Linnie, and two daughters. The Hoover Dam construction project and Frank Crowe's role (portrayed by actor Jay Benedict ) was dramatised in an episode of the BBC's 2003 docudrama television miniseries Seven Wonders of the Industrial World . The project and Frank Crowe's role was also dramatized in The History Channel's series America: The Story of Us in episode 9 entitled Bust. This article about
52-659: A heart attack. He was buried at Ogden City Cemetery. Frank Crowe Born in Trenholmville, Quebec , Crowe attended the Governor Dummer Academy , matriculating to the University of Maine where he graduated in 1905 with a degree in civil engineering . The University's Francis Crowe Society is named in his honor. Crowe became interested in the American west during a lecture given by Frank Elwin Weymouth (1874-1941),
65-543: A partnership with the larger Utah Construction Company to build dams. While working on the Arrowrock Dam in Idaho , Crowe pioneered two practices that are crucial to the construction of large dams. The first was a pneumatic delivery system to transport concrete and the second was a system of overhead cables to allow the pneumatic concrete to be pumped at any point on the construction site. With this technique, Crowe built some of
78-528: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Edmund Orson Wattis Jr. Edmund Orson Wattis Jr. (March 6, 1855 – February 3, 1934), was oldest of the brothers who founded Wattis Brothers and the Utah Construction Company . Wattis was born on March 6, 1855, at a farm in Uintah , Utah Territory , the second of seven children born to Edmund Orson Wattis and Mary Jane Corey. Edmund
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104-704: The brothers had established in the Weber Valley . This ranch would later provide the financial strength for the large construction projects to come. In 1900, the Wattis Brothers again tried their hand as partners in contracting. They founded the Utah Construction Company. A short four years after its founding, Utah Construction Company was awarded the contract to build the Feather River route between Oakland and Salt Lake City . This $ 60 million contract
117-601: The chief engineer, the MK UC partnership successfully built dams throughout the American west. In 1931, the Wattis Brothers spearheaded the formation of Six Companies to build the Hoover Dam which was the largest construction project ever tackled by the US Government up to the time. He did not live to see it completed though; after serving as chairman of Six Companies, E.O. Wattis died in his Ogden, Utah home on February 3, 1934, of
130-562: The largest dams in the American west, including the Hoover Dam , Parker Dam 155 miles (249 km) downstream from Hoover; Copper Basin and Gene Wash Dams on the Colorado Aqueduct system; and Shasta Dam in Northern California. All these dams were important but none approached the mythic scale or mystique of Hoover Dam. He retired in 1944 to his 20,000-acre (81 km ) cattle ranch near Redding , California, where he died of
143-560: Was 21 when he left his home in Uinta to start a career in heavy construction, working on bed grading for the Canadian Pacific and Colorado Midlands. With his brother William, he formed a firm to lay track for the expanding railroads. Wattis Brothers prospered until the Panic of 1893 . While William continued to try to find construction projects, Edmund focused his energies on running a sheep ranch
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#1732877014564156-605: Was awarded the seven million dollar O'Shaughnessy Dam contract, a controversial project that impounds the Tuolumne River in the Hetch Hetchy Valley of California's Sierra Nevada mountains. Success with the O'Shaughnessy Dam convinced the Wattis Brothers to bid on more dam projects. In 1922, Utah Construction Company formed a partnership with the Morrison-Knudsen Company of Boise, Idaho. With Frank Crowe as
169-624: Was challenging, but after five years, very profitable. The Feather River route was complete for the Western Pacific Railroad in 1911. The Utah Construction Company thrived, and soon captured a large share of the tunneling, grading, and track projects in the rapidly expanding railroads in the mountain west. Seeing the end of railroad expansion, the Wattis Brothers looked for ways to diversify their construction risks. Edmund Wattis married Martha Ann Bybee on June 25, 1879. They had five daughters and three sons. In 1917, Utah Construction Company
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