The New International Encyclopædia/Shreve, Samuel Henry

SHREVE, Samuel Henry (1829-84). An American civil engineer, born at Trenton, N. J. He graduated in 1848 at Princeton, and afterwards studied law and civil engineering. He directed the construction of numerous railways, and in 1875 was engineer of the New York Rapid Transit Commission. Subsequently he was consulting engineer of the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad, and chief engineer of the Brooklyn Elevated Railroad. He published a treatise on The Strength of Bridges and Roofs (1873).