Isham Randolph
Civil engineer, Academic
1848 – 1920
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Who was Isham Randolph?
Isham Randolph was an American civil engineer who is best known as the chief engineer of the Sanitary District of Chicago during the construction of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Randolph had no formal engineering training, he began his career as a railroad axeman. After completing the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, at the time the largest canal in the world, Randolph became a consulting engineer on the Panama Canal at the request of the Roosevelt Administration.
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- Born
- Mar 25, 1848
Clarke County - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Virginia
- United States of America
- Died
- Aug 5, 1920
Chicago
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on July 23, 2013
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