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George H. Pegram
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Biographical Information

Name: George H. Pegram
Full name: George Herndon Pegram
Born in 1855 in , Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA, North America
Deceased in 1937 in , New York, New York, USA, North America

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Biography from Wikipedia

George Herndon Pegram (1855 - 1937), most commonly known as George H. Pegram, was an engineer who patented the Pegram truss.

He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1855. He completed a civil engineering degree at Washington University, St. Louis in 1877. He died in Brooklyn, New York, in 1937.

A number of Pegram truss bridges are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

Examples include:

  • Cold Springs Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge, built 1894, over the Big Wood River, 0.5 mi. S of jct. of US 93 and ID 367, Ketchum, ID, NRHP-listed
  • Conant Creek Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge, over the Conant Creek. 1 mi. S of jct. of Squirrel Rd. and Old Ashton-Victor RR spur tracks Grainville, ID, NRHP-listed
  • Gimlet Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge, over the Big Wood River, 0.5 mi. S of jct. of US 93 and E. Fork Wood River Rd., Ketchum, ID, NRHP-listed
  • Grace Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge, over the Bear R. 0.5 mi. NNW of jct. of ID 34 and Turner Rd. Grace, ID, NRHP-listed
  • Ririe A Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge, over the Snake R. 1 mi. NNE of jct. of Heise Rd. and East Belt Branch RR tracks Ririe, ID, NRHP-listed
  • Ririe B Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge, over the Snake R. flood channel, 0.5 mi. NNE of jct. of Heise Rd. and East Belt Branch RR tracks Ririe, ID, NRHP-listed
  • St. Anthony Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge, over Henry's Fork. 0.5 mi. S of jct. of S. Parker Rd. and West Belt Branch RR tracks St. Anthony, ID, NRHP-listed
  • St. Louis Union Station train shed, 1820 Market Street, St. Louis, Missouri
  • Yakima Valley Transportation Company Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge, over the Naches River between Yakima and Selah, Washington Yakima, WA Listed on NRHP as part of listing for Yakima Valley Transportation Company

Text imported from Wikipedia article "George H. Pegram" and modified on July 22, 2019 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.

Bibliography

  1. Pegram, George H. (1918): Address at the Annual Meeting, January 16th, 1918. In: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, v. 82, n. 1 ( 1918), pp. 158-165.

    https://doi.org/10.1061/taceat.0002896

  2. Pegram, George H. (1886): Formulas for the Weights of Iron and Steel Railway Bridges Under Standard Specifications. In: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, v. 15, n. 1 ( 1886), pp. 85-93.

    https://doi.org/10.1061/taceat.0000588

  3. Wilson, John A. / Pope, Willard S. / Pegram, George H. / Bouscaren, G. / Lincoln, W. S. / Wilson, Joseph M. / Dagron, James G. / Waddell, J. A. L. / Philbrick, Edward S. / Bryson, Andrew / Shailler, R. A. / Haven, W. A. / Goodwin, J. M. / Lucius, Albert / Dawley, B. P. / Marshall, Charles A. / Whittemore, Don J. / Cooper, Theodore / Goodwin, H. Stanley / Wellington, A. M. / Roberts, Percival / Schneider, C. C. / Allen, C. Frank / Bogart, John / Sloan, R. I. / Graff, Frederic / Flagg, J. Foster / Croes, J. James R. / Kent, William / Moore, Robert / McAlpine, William J. (1887): Discussion by Letters Inspection and Maintenance of R’Y Structures. In: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, v. 17, n. 2 ( 1887), pp. 260-317.

    https://doi.org/10.1061/taceat.0000632

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