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TRAUTWINE, John Cresson, civil engineer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 30 March, 1810; died there, 14 September, 1883. In 1828 he entered the office of William Strickland, then the chief civil engineer and architect in that city, and soon afterward submitted a design for the Penn township bank, which was accepted, and the execution of which he superintended. Subsequently he assisted Mr. Strickland in the construction of the United States mint and other Philadelphia buildings. He was engaged on the Columbia railroad in 1831, was appointed principal assistant engineer of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore railroad in 1835, and in 1836 became engineer of the Philadelphia and Trenton railroad, but during the latter part of the same year passed to the service of the Hiawassee railroad, from Tennessee to Georgia, of which he was chief engineer for six years. In 1844-'9 he was associated with George M. Torten in the construction of the canal del Dique, connecting the Magdalena river with the Bay of Carthagena, and again with Mr. Totten, in 1850, he made the surveys for the Panama railroad. On his return to Philadelphia in 1854 he published a report of his work. He next examined and reported on the harbor of Arecibo, in Porto Rico, and then became engineer of the Coal Run railroad in northeastern Pennsylvania. He surveyed in 1856 the Lackawanna and Lanesborough railroad in Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, and in 1857 the route for an interoceanic railroad through Honduras. He examined and reported on the harbor of Montreal in 1858, and arranged a system of docks for that city. After 1864 he gradually retired from the practice of his profession, although continuing his consulting work, and he was frequently called upon to testify as an expert on questions of engineering. Mr. Trautwine was a member of scientific bodies, and a contributor of professional papers to technical journals. His works include "Method of Calculating the Cubic Contents of Excavations and Embankments" (Philadelphia, 1851); "Field Practice of Laying out Circular Curves for Railroads" (1851); and "Civil Engineer's Pocket-Book" (1872).
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