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TOTTEN, George Muirson, civil engineer, born in New Haven, Connecticut, 28 May, 1809; died in New York city, 8 June, 1884. He was educated in Captain Alden Partridge's military academy in Middletown, Connecticut, and began work as a civil engineer on the Farmington canal in 1827. Subsequently he went to Pennsylvania and was there employed upon the Juniata canal. In 1831 he was one of the engineers of the Delaware and Raritan canal in New Jersey, and in 1835 he was engaged in building the railroad from Reading to Port Clinton. For several years following he was employed in building railroads in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. In 1843 he was appointed engineer-in-chief of the canal del Dique, which connects Magdalena river with the harbor of Carthagena in Colombia. He was appointed in 1850 engineer-in-chief of the Panama railroad, and spent twenty-five years among difficulties of every sort in the completion of this arduous task. In 1879 he was associated with Ferdinand de Lesseps on the commission that went to the isthmus to decide on the canal project. Later he went to Venezuela, where he was engaged in the survey of a railroad, and he afterward became consulting engineer of the Panama railroad.
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