Class of 1881

Vol. IV
p338 [Supplement, Vol. IV: 1890‑1900]

Military History. — Served: At Washington, D. C., to Aug. 17, 1890; on leave to Oct., 1890; at New Orleans, La., in charge of works in 4th District,

(Captain, Corps of Engineers, Sept. 20, 1892)

to Oct. 31, 1894; at Washington, D. C., as Secretary of the Lighthouse Board, Nov. 2, 1894 to Nov. 8, 1898; at Willets Point, N. Y., in command of Company D, Engineer Battalion, to –––––

(Major, Corps of Engineers, April 20, 1900)

Vol. V
p314 [Supplement, Vol. V: 1900‑1910]

Military History. — Served: At Willets Point, N. Y., in command of Company D, Engineer Battalion, to May 5, 1900; Instructor of Military Engineering, U. S. Engineer School, Jan. 6 to May 5, 1900; Delegate to the Eighth International Congress of Navigation and the International Congress of Electricity, at Paris France, in July and Aug., 1900; and also designated as Delegate to the Congress of Physics; at Seattle, Wash., in charge of fortification and river and harbor works, Nov. 22, 1900 to Aug. 31, 1905; at Manila, P. I., in charge of fortification works, Oct. 14, 1905 to Oct. 5, 1907.

 p315  (Lieut.‑Colonel, Corps of Engineers, June 7, 1907)

— At Cleveland, Ohio, in charge of river and harbor works, Feb. 21, 1908 to date; member of various Boards of Engineer Officers on subjects relating to fortification and river and harbor works.

Vol. VI
p307 [Supplement, Vol. VI: 1910‑1920]

(Born Dec. 31, 1858.)

Military History. —

Lieut.‑Colonel, Corps of Engineers, June 7, 1907

At Cleveland, Ohio, District Engineer, in charge of River and Harbor Works, Feb. 21, 1908, to

(Colonel, Corps of Engineers, July 13, 1910)

August, 1912; at Newport, R. I., and Boston, Mass., in charge of toss Engineering Districts to July, 1916; at Savannah, Ga., Division Engineer, Southeast Division; District Engineer in charge of Savannah District and temporarily in charge of Charleston and Jacksonville Districts, and Department Engineer, Southeast Department, July, 1916, to November, 1918; at Chicago, Ill., Department Engineer, Central Department, November, 1918, to –––––

Vol. VII
p174 [Supplement, Vol. VII: 1910‑1920]

Military History. —

Colonel, Corps of Engineers, July 13, 1910.

At Chicago, Ill., Department Engineer, Central Department, and Engineer, 6th Corps Area, Nov. 1918, to Oct. 1, 1922; on leave of absence to Dec. 31, 1922.

Colonel, U. S. A., Retired, Dec. 31, 1922,
By Operation of Law.

Civil History: — In 1894 prepared plan with maps and estimates for emergency relief of the lower Mississippi River in times of flood. This was not favorably considered at the time by the Mississippi River Commission, but in the unprecedented flood of 1927, the essential features of the Millis plan were resorted to, at the instance of local Municipal and State authorities, with the result that an imminent disaster to the City of New Orleans was successfully averted. Member, American Society, C. E. (member special committee to investigate Japanese earthquake); Am. Inst. E. E., A. A. A. S., American Astron. Society; Clubs: University (New York); Union (Cleveland); Army and Navy; Cosmos (Washington), Century Association, New York; Author: Safety of Navigation on Great American Lakes (for 12th International Congress Navigation, Philadelphia, 1912); Commercial Waterways of the United States (for Atlantic Deeper Waterways Assn.); The Constructional History of the Solar System and of Our Earth (The Dualistic Theory), 1925; papers on relativity, gravitation, glacial theory, cause of drumlins, cosmogony, navigation, etc. Originated, 1918, method of observing and photographing solar eclipses from air craft, used by U. S. Naval Observatory for total eclipse of Jan., 1925.

Vol. VIII
p60 [Supplement, Vol. VIII: 1910‑1920]

Military History:—

Col., Ret., Dec. 31, 1922.

Civil History: — Student and inventor, earthquake and windstorm resisting construction, and ship's hull designs. Occupied in real estate and agriculture.

Vol. IX
p44 [Supplement, Vol. IX: 1940‑1950]

Military History: —

Col Ret 31 Dec 22

Civil History: — 3250 Euclid Ave, Cleveland O

Died Mar. 20, 1952, at Cleveland, O.: Aged 93.​a