USMA Class of 1867. Cullum No. 2162.
Sixty-Eighth Annual Report of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York
June 11, 1937
Lewis M. Haupt
No. 2162. Class of 1867.
Died March 10, 1937. At Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, aged 92 years.
Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1844. He was the son of General Herman Haupt, builder of railroads for the Union forces during the Civil War. After attending the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, Lewis Haupt was appointed by President Lincoln to the Military Academy in 1863. Upon graduating in 1867, Haupt was assigned to the Engineers, with whom he had served in Texas until he resigned in 1869 to accept a position as a topographical engineer in the development of Fairmont Park, Philadelphia. After six years spent in developing Fairmont Park and instituting solutions to the traffic problems of Philadelphia he was appointed Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
During the following years he was also Engineer of the Fourth Lighthouse District; he was in charge of the Geodesy of Pennsylvania; he was one of the commissioners on the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal and he was Associate Judge to report on the transportation features of the Paris Exposition. In 1897 he was appointed by President McKinley to study the feasibility of a Nicaraguan Canal and he served on the Panama Canal Commission.
In hydrography his genius was most manifest, a genius that forced the revolutionizing of accepted practices. In 1887 he patented the reaction breakwater, utilizing the forces of tidewater itself to clear and maintain the channel, a principal which was later widely adopted. For this achievement he was awarded the Magellan Premium by the American Philosophical Society. Of equal utility was his later invention of the hooked jetty, designed to check coastal erosion. Combined with another development, the installation of a double row of open piling, this device has resulted in the recovery of many acres of beach front at Far Rockaway, Long Island and at many points along the New Jersey Coast.
It is impossible in the space permitted to list all of his contributions to the literature of science. Among his more notable papers are: Engineering Specifications and Contracts, The Physical Phenomena of Harbor Entrances, Canals and Their Economic Relation to Transportation and A Move for Better Roads. Also Professor Haupt was the editor of The American Engineering Register.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Society, American Historical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Franklin Institute and the Philadelphia Engineers Club, of which he was the first President.
Professor Haupt is survived by his son, Lewis H. Haupt and four daughters, Miss Bessie M. Haupt, Mrs. Martin H. Urner, Mrs. Keith F. Adamson and Mrs. A. Lodge Oliver.
Sixty-Eighth Annual Report of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York
June 11, 1937
Lewis M. Haupt
No. 2162. Class of 1867.
Died March 10, 1937. At Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, aged 92 years.
Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1844. He was the son of General Herman Haupt, builder of railroads for the Union forces during the Civil War. After attending the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, Lewis Haupt was appointed by President Lincoln to the Military Academy in 1863. Upon graduating in 1867, Haupt was assigned to the Engineers, with whom he had served in Texas until he resigned in 1869 to accept a position as a topographical engineer in the development of Fairmont Park, Philadelphia. After six years spent in developing Fairmont Park and instituting solutions to the traffic problems of Philadelphia he was appointed Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
During the following years he was also Engineer of the Fourth Lighthouse District; he was in charge of the Geodesy of Pennsylvania; he was one of the commissioners on the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal and he was Associate Judge to report on the transportation features of the Paris Exposition. In 1897 he was appointed by President McKinley to study the feasibility of a Nicaraguan Canal and he served on the Panama Canal Commission.
In hydrography his genius was most manifest, a genius that forced the revolutionizing of accepted practices. In 1887 he patented the reaction breakwater, utilizing the forces of tidewater itself to clear and maintain the channel, a principal which was later widely adopted. For this achievement he was awarded the Magellan Premium by the American Philosophical Society. Of equal utility was his later invention of the hooked jetty, designed to check coastal erosion. Combined with another development, the installation of a double row of open piling, this device has resulted in the recovery of many acres of beach front at Far Rockaway, Long Island and at many points along the New Jersey Coast.
It is impossible in the space permitted to list all of his contributions to the literature of science. Among his more notable papers are: Engineering Specifications and Contracts, The Physical Phenomena of Harbor Entrances, Canals and Their Economic Relation to Transportation and A Move for Better Roads. Also Professor Haupt was the editor of The American Engineering Register.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Society, American Historical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Franklin Institute and the Philadelphia Engineers Club, of which he was the first President.
Professor Haupt is survived by his son, Lewis H. Haupt and four daughters, Miss Bessie M. Haupt, Mrs. Martin H. Urner, Mrs. Keith F. Adamson and Mrs. A. Lodge Oliver.
USMA Class of 1867. Cullum No. 2162.
Sixty-Eighth Annual Report of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York
June 11, 1937
Lewis M. Haupt
No. 2162. Class of 1867.
Died March 10, 1937. At Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, aged 92 years.
Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1844. He was the son of General Herman Haupt, builder of railroads for the Union forces during the Civil War. After attending the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, Lewis Haupt was appointed by President Lincoln to the Military Academy in 1863. Upon graduating in 1867, Haupt was assigned to the Engineers, with whom he had served in Texas until he resigned in 1869 to accept a position as a topographical engineer in the development of Fairmont Park, Philadelphia. After six years spent in developing Fairmont Park and instituting solutions to the traffic problems of Philadelphia he was appointed Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
During the following years he was also Engineer of the Fourth Lighthouse District; he was in charge of the Geodesy of Pennsylvania; he was one of the commissioners on the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal and he was Associate Judge to report on the transportation features of the Paris Exposition. In 1897 he was appointed by President McKinley to study the feasibility of a Nicaraguan Canal and he served on the Panama Canal Commission.
In hydrography his genius was most manifest, a genius that forced the revolutionizing of accepted practices. In 1887 he patented the reaction breakwater, utilizing the forces of tidewater itself to clear and maintain the channel, a principal which was later widely adopted. For this achievement he was awarded the Magellan Premium by the American Philosophical Society. Of equal utility was his later invention of the hooked jetty, designed to check coastal erosion. Combined with another development, the installation of a double row of open piling, this device has resulted in the recovery of many acres of beach front at Far Rockaway, Long Island and at many points along the New Jersey Coast.
It is impossible in the space permitted to list all of his contributions to the literature of science. Among his more notable papers are: Engineering Specifications and Contracts, The Physical Phenomena of Harbor Entrances, Canals and Their Economic Relation to Transportation and A Move for Better Roads. Also Professor Haupt was the editor of The American Engineering Register.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Society, American Historical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Franklin Institute and the Philadelphia Engineers Club, of which he was the first President.
Professor Haupt is survived by his son, Lewis H. Haupt and four daughters, Miss Bessie M. Haupt, Mrs. Martin H. Urner, Mrs. Keith F. Adamson and Mrs. A. Lodge Oliver.
Sixty-Eighth Annual Report of the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York
June 11, 1937
Lewis M. Haupt
No. 2162. Class of 1867.
Died March 10, 1937. At Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, aged 92 years.
Lewis Muhlenberg Haupt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 31, 1844. He was the son of General Herman Haupt, builder of railroads for the Union forces during the Civil War. After attending the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University, Lewis Haupt was appointed by President Lincoln to the Military Academy in 1863. Upon graduating in 1867, Haupt was assigned to the Engineers, with whom he had served in Texas until he resigned in 1869 to accept a position as a topographical engineer in the development of Fairmont Park, Philadelphia. After six years spent in developing Fairmont Park and instituting solutions to the traffic problems of Philadelphia he was appointed Professor of Civil and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
During the following years he was also Engineer of the Fourth Lighthouse District; he was in charge of the Geodesy of Pennsylvania; he was one of the commissioners on the Lake Erie and Ohio River Ship Canal and he was Associate Judge to report on the transportation features of the Paris Exposition. In 1897 he was appointed by President McKinley to study the feasibility of a Nicaraguan Canal and he served on the Panama Canal Commission.
In hydrography his genius was most manifest, a genius that forced the revolutionizing of accepted practices. In 1887 he patented the reaction breakwater, utilizing the forces of tidewater itself to clear and maintain the channel, a principal which was later widely adopted. For this achievement he was awarded the Magellan Premium by the American Philosophical Society. Of equal utility was his later invention of the hooked jetty, designed to check coastal erosion. Combined with another development, the installation of a double row of open piling, this device has resulted in the recovery of many acres of beach front at Far Rockaway, Long Island and at many points along the New Jersey Coast.
It is impossible in the space permitted to list all of his contributions to the literature of science. Among his more notable papers are: Engineering Specifications and Contracts, The Physical Phenomena of Harbor Entrances, Canals and Their Economic Relation to Transportation and A Move for Better Roads. Also Professor Haupt was the editor of The American Engineering Register.
He was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Philosophical Society, National Geographic Society, American Historical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Franklin Institute and the Philadelphia Engineers Club, of which he was the first President.
Professor Haupt is survived by his son, Lewis H. Haupt and four daughters, Miss Bessie M. Haupt, Mrs. Martin H. Urner, Mrs. Keith F. Adamson and Mrs. A. Lodge Oliver.
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