W. Hasell Wilson
William Hasell Wilson was a civil engineer for the Reading and Pennsylvania Railroads in the 19th century.
Wilson was the resident engineer in charge for the 1835 Black Rock Tunnel, the second rail road tunnel constructed in the United States, and the oldest tunnel still in use.
Wilson was born in Charleston, S. C. in 1811 and was a lineal descendant of the Allstons and Gibbes families, two of the oldest names which date back to the founding of the colony in the Seventeenth Century. On his father's side he was descended from a long line of civil engineers, and his father was the Chief Engineer of the Pennsylvania State Railway. He died in 1902. See Elizabeth Pharo, Reminiscences of William Hasell Wilson (1811-1902), Philadelphia: Patterson and White Company, 1937.
His son, Joseph M. Wilson(1838–1902), was also a civil engineer for the Pennsylvania Railroad.[1]
Works
A brief review of railroad history from the earliest period to the year 1894. Allen, Lane & Scott. 1895. p. 53.
References
- ↑ "Death List of a Day - Joseph M. Wilson". New York Times. 25 November 1902. p. 9.