The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Fuertes, James Hillhouse
FUERTES, foo-ãr'tẹs, James Hillhouse,
American civil and sanitary engineer: b. Ponce,
Porto Rico, 10 Aug. 1863. He was graduated
from Cornell University in 1883. He has
constructed works for the sewerage, drainage and
water supply of various cities in the United
States, Canada and Brazil, and served as
consulting engineer of various corporations and

municipalities, and is a non-resident lecturer at
Cornell. He has published ‘Water and Public
Health’ (1897); ‘Water Filtration Works’
(1901); ‘European Sanitary Engineering
Series’ in the Engineering Record, and numerous
monographs on engineering and sanitary
subjects, etc.