Hezekiah Bissell

Hezekiah Bissell (February 27, 1835 - June 23, 1928) was a leading and well known nineteenth century American railroad engineer, civil engineer, and railroad maintenance of way manager for a number of railroads in the Northeastern United States, including the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway, Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts, and the Boston & Maine.[1] He was a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College. He worked as a surveyor on the Union Pacific Railway from 1864–1869, under Ogden Edwards. In 1868 he supervised the construction of the Dale Creek Bridge in southeastern Wyoming, a challenging feat of engineering at that time. The bridge was the highest bridge along the Union Pacific built to cross the chasm between Sherman Summit in the Laramie Mountains west of Cheyenne and the Laramie Plains.[2][3]

Sources

Men and women of America: a biographical dictionary of contemporaries. New York City : L.R. Hamersly & Co. 1910.
Ambrose, Stephen E. (2000). Nothing Like It In The World, The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869. Simon&Schuster. ISBN 0-684-84609-8.
Williams, John H. (1996). A great and shining road: the epic story of the transcontinental railroad. Lincoln, [Neb.]: University of Nebraska Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-8032-9789-0.

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[1] Men and women of America: a biographical dictionary of contemporaries. New York City : L.R. Hamersly & Co. 1910.

[2] Ambrose, Stephen E. (2000). Nothing Like It In The World, The Men Who Built The Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869. Simon&Schuster. ISBN 0-684-84609-8.

[3] Williams, John H. (1996). A great and shining road: the epic story of the transcontinental railroad. Lincoln, [Neb.]: University of Nebraska Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-8032-9789-0.