LIPPINCOTT

LIPPINCOTT 10.10. 1864 Scranton PA/USA 04.11. 1942 Los Angeles CA/USA Joseph Barlow Lippincott graduated in 1887 from the University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, with the BSc degree in civil engineering, and was honored in 1914 there with the CE degree. From 1889 he was topographer for the US Geological Survey USGS in New Mexico and California. In 1893 he became an assistant engineer for the Bear Valley Irrigation Co., for the headwaters of Santa Ana River CA. In 1895 he became resident engineer for California State. He established with the USGS Hydrographic Branch gaging stations, collecting rainfall and stream-flow data. It was then when Lippincott decided to devote his career to water supply engineering. He prepared in 1899 an exhaustive report on the water supply, available reservoir sites, and irrigable areas on the Gila River AZ. Lippincott became in 1902 hydraulic engineer of the newly created US Reclamation Service, taking over as supervising engineer all its activities in the Pacific Coast region from Klamath River OR to Colorado River in Arizona. In 1905 he was appointed with William Mulholland (1855-1935) to the board of engineers dealing with the water supply of Los Angeles CA. He left in 1906 the Service, however, becoming assistant chief engineer of the 400 km long Owens River Aqueduct, which should deliver Los Angeles from the Sierra Nevada with water. Once completed, this Aqueduct had a capacity of 11 m3/s consisting of open-canal, covered conduit, 100 km of tunnels, five dams, storage reservoirs, and three hydro-electric power plants, so that this was a monumental work. Construction began in 1908, and the Aqueduct was completed in 1913 within the cost originally set. Lippincott was awarded the James R. Croes Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers for a paper on this work. He entered in 1913 a private practice at Los Angeles, specializing in water supply, which he continued until his death. He was recognized as an expert on the design and construction of hydraulic fill dams. He was the first president of the ASCE Los Angeles Section, and greatly contributed to ASCE in various committees. He was ASCE member from 1899, and Honorary Member. Anonymous (1943). Joseph B. Lippincott. Trans. ASCE 108: 1543-1550. Hundley, Jr., N. (2001). The great thirst. University of California Press: Berkeley. Lippincott, J.B. (1900). Storage of water on the Gila River. Water Supply Paper 33. USGS. Lippincott, J.B. (1905). Water problems of Santa Barbara. Water Supply Paper 116. USGS. https://waterandpower.org/museum/Early_DWP_Board_and_Management.html P https://sunsite.berkeley.edu/WRCA/lipp.html P

LOCKETT 07.07. 1837 Mecklenburg County VA/USA 12.10. 1891 Bogota/CO Samuel Henry Lockett graduated in 1859 from the US Military Academy, and was then commissioned a brevet second-lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He was engaged in 1860 in engineering work in the 8th Lighthouse District, supervising the construction of a fort on the Florida Coast. During the Civil War, he served as captain and engineer, thereby designing and constructing the defenses of Vicksburg MS. He became in 1862 chief engineer of the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, supervising the fortification of Port Hudson LA. He was captured at Vicksburg in 1863, exchanged, and placed in charge of the defenses of Mobile AL, rising to the rank of captain. After the War, he first was appointed professor of natural sciences at Judson Institute, Marion AL, and from 1868 to 1873 professor of engineering at the Louisiana State Seminary, Alexandria LA. During this period he wrote Louisiana as it is. During the next two years, Lockett in vain tried to open new schools, but he resigned due to economic reasons. In 1875 he moved to Egypt where he was commissioned a colonel in the Corps of Engineers within the Army of the Khedive. His construction of defenses during the Egyptian retreat from their near annihilation at the Plain of Dura was commendable. Following the collapse of the Egyptian economy, Lockett returned to the USA in 1877, serving then as professor of engineering and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN. In 1880 he declined the presidency of the Louisiana State University LSU. From 1883, Lockett successfully engaged in consulting and published his Topographical Survey and Map of Louisiana. While returning from an engineering assignment in South America, he came down with fever and soon later died. The LSU Lockett Hall was named for him. Anonymous (1891). Samuel H. Lockett. Engineering Record 24: 374. Lockett, S.H. (1879). The valleys of the Nile and the Mississippi. Trans. of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society 17(2): 380-394. Post, L.C. (1964). Samuel Henry Lockett: A sketch of his life and work. Louisiana History: Baton Rouge LA. Post, L.C., ed. (1969). Louisiana as it is: A geographical and topographical description of the State. Louisiana State University Press: Baton Rouge LA. https://www.lahistory.org/site29.php https://www.battleofchampionhill.org/lockett.htm P