The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Vose, George Leonard
VOSE, George Leonard, American civil
engineer: b. Augusta, Me., 19 April 1831; d.
1910. He was educated at home and at Salem,
Mass., studied at the Lawrence Scientific School
at Harvard and began his career as assistant
engineer on the Kennebec and Portland Railroad.
He was associate editor of the American
Railway Times in Boston (1859-63}, removed
to Paris, Me. (1866) where he was engaged in
railroad projects, was professor of engineering
in Bowdoin College (1872-81) and held a
similar chair in the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (1881-86). He was the author of
several standard works on professional
subjects, notably ‘Bridge Disasters in America:
The Cause and the Remedy’ (1887).