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of the state of Pennsylvania, 1836-39. He was
professor of civil engineering ami mathematics in
Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, 1844-47. He
was principal assistant engineer of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. 1847-49, its general sujjerinten-
dent, 1849-54, chief engineer, 18"")4-5G, ami was
elected director by
the city council of
Philadelphia in 1855.
He was chief engi-
neer and contractor
of the Hoosac tunnel
in Massachusetts,
1856-61; colonel on
the staff of Gen. Ir-
win ^McDowell, and
chief of construction
and operation of U.S.
military railways
during the war. He
was general manager
of the Piedmont Air
Line railway from Richmond, Va., to Atlanta,
Gra., 1872-76. and in 1876 became chief engineer
of the Pennsylvania Transportation company and
the Seaboard Pipe Line company, where he solved
the problem of carrying the product of the oil
fields to the tide water through pipes. He served
as general manager of the Northern Pacijfic rail-
road, 1881-^3. He was president of the General
Compres.sed Air company, 1893-98, and was
elected president of the American Air Power com-
pany in 1898. He was elected a member of the
American philosophical society, April 21, 1871.
He was married to Ann Cecelia, daughter of the
Rev. Benjamin Keller, and had three sons: Lewis
Mulilenberg, a celebrated civil engineer, Alex-
ander James Derbj'shire, a Lutheran clergj'man
of St. Paul, Minn., and Charles Edgar, rector of
Messiah P.E. church in the same city. He is the
author of: 7/jh?.s on Brhhjc BmUing (1840); (Un-
eral Theory of Bridge Construction (1852); Plan for
Improvement of the Ohio Iliver (1855); Military
Bridrjes rl864), and contributions to scientific
periodicals.
HAUPT, Lewis Muhlenberg, educator, was bom at Getty.sburg, Pa., March 21, 1844; son of Herman and Ann Cecelia (Keller) Haupt, and grandson of Jacob Haupt, and of the Rev. Ben- jamin Keller. He attended the public .school for a time and at the age of fourteen was advi.sed to take out-of-door exercise for tlie benefit of his health. He accordingly assisted his father, who was at that time building the Troj' & Green- field railroad and the Hoosac tunnel. In 1861 he entered the University of Pennsylvania but left at the close of his freshman year to enter Law- rence scientific school, Harvard. In the fall of 1863 he was appointed by President Lincoln to a
cailetship at the U.S. military academy, where
lie was graduated in 1867 and was assigned to
duty in the U.S. corps of engineers, his first work
being with a party comlucting the triangulation
of Lake Superior. In 1869 he resigned from the
army to accept the position of assistant engineer
and topogra])her in cliargc of the surveys of Fair-
mount Park, Philadelphia, and was engaged on
this work until 1872, when he was appointed an
assistant examiner in the U.S. patent office in
Washington, D.C. He resigned a few months
later to accept the chair of civil engineering in the
University of Pennsylvania, which office he re-
signed in 1892, to identify himself more closely
with the practical engineering problems of the
day. He was appointed chairman of the Colom-
bia-Cauca arbitration commission in March,
1897 ; a member of the Nicaragua canal commis-
sion in July, 1897, and of the Isthmian canal
commission in June, 1899. He was elected a
member of the American philosophical society,
and became actively connected with many other
scientific associations. He invented several use-
ful ajipliances for engineers, particularly a reac-
tion breakwater for deepening ocean bars. He
was married in 1873, to Isabella Christiana,
daughter of James J. Cromwell of Philadelphia.
He received the degree of A.M. from the Univer-
sit\' of Pennsylvania in 1883. He was editor of the
American Engineering Begister ; and published:
Engineering Specifications and Contracts (1878);
Working Drawings, and Hoio to Make and Use Them
(1881); The Topographer — His Methods and Instru-
ments (1884); and numerous scientific articles in
the magazines.
HAUPT, Paul, educator, was born in Gorlitz, Germany, Nov. 25, 1858; son of Karl and Elise (Hiilse) Haupt, and grandson of Johann and Johanna (Handke) Haupt, and of Johann and Mathilde (Beer) Htilse. He was graduated from the Gj-mnasium, Augustum, Gorlitz, in 1876; studied for a time at the University of Berlin, and received his Ph.D. degree from the Univer- sity of Leipzig in 1878. He was private-docent in the University of Gottingen in 1880 and professor of Assyriologv' there in 1883. The latter year he became professor of the Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins university. He was elected hon- orary curator of the collection of Oriental antiquities in the U.S. National Museum, "Wash- ington, D.C. and a member of the American his- torical association. He introduced to Semitic philology the principle of the neogrammarians and discovered the Sumerian dialect in 1880. He was associate editor of Hrhraica, co-editor of The Assyriological Library and of Contributions to Assyriology and Comparative Semitic Philology and editor-in-chief of the Sacred Books of the Old Tes- tament (1893-1900). He is the author of a num-
