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HILL L.C. 22.02. 1865 Ann Arbor MI/USA 05.11. 1938 Los Angeles CA/USA Louis Clarence Hill graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, with the BSc degree in civil engineering, receiving in 1890 there also the BSc degree in electrical engineering. In 1911 his Alma Mater conferred upon him a honorary degree of Master of Engineering. From 1890 to 1903, Hill was professor of hydraulics at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO. He then entered the US Reclamation Service as engineer, becoming later project engineer and supervising engineer, in charge of construction of the Salt River Project including Roosevelt Dam in Arizona, the Yuma Project, and projects in New Mexico and Texas; he was also in charge of the Colorado River Basin. Hill entered in 1914 private practice, and was in parallel also retained by the US Bureau of Reclamation as consulting engineer. He was member of the engineering firm Quinton, Code & Hill-Leeds at Los Angeles CA. He was there connected with many engineering projects, among which were Gibraltar Dam on the Santa Ynez River in Santa Barbara County CA, the Pine Canyon Dam on the San Gabriel River, the Big Tujunga Dam on Big Tujunga River, or the Bouquet Dam, all of which are located in Los Angeles County CA. He had further been consulting engineer for the State of California on various other dams, and also was consulting engineer for the Yaqui River Project in Sonora, Mexico. In the mid-1930s he was consulting engineer to the US Engineers on various dams near Zanesville OH, on the Conchas Dam in New Mexico, the Tygart Dam in West Virginia, the Sardis Dam in Mississippi, and the Fort Peck on Missouri River, and Bonneville Dams on Columbia River. He also was then a member of the Board of Consulting Engineers on Boulder Dam, todays Hoover Dam on Colorado River, and on the AllAmerican Canal Hill in south-eastern California. Hill was elected in 1937 president of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Anonymous (1937). Louis C. Hill. Engineering News-Record 118(Jan.21): 108. P Billington, D.P., Jackson, D.C., Melosi, M.V. (2005). The history of large federal dams: Planning, design, and construction. USBR: Denver CO. Hill, L.C. (1937). The engineer, an employee-employer. Trans. ASCE 102: 1173-1178. Maji, A.K., Lucero, J.L. (2001). Historic civil engineering landmarks in New Mexico. Intl. Engineering History and Heritage: 304-311, J.R. Rogers, ed.. ASCE: Reston VA. Roosevelt, T., Newell, F.H., Pinchot, G., Kermit, E., Hill, L.C. (1928). The Roosevelt Dam. Roosevelt Memorial Association: Washington DC.
