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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-