| LC control no. | nr2006008521 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Grunsky, C. E., 1855-1934 |
| Variant(s) | Grunsky, C. E. (Carl Ewald), 1855-1934 Grunsky, C. Ewald (Carl Ewald), 1855-1934 Grunsky, Carl Ewald, 1855-1934 |
| Birth date | 1855-04-04 |
| Death date | 1934 |
| Place of birth | Stockton (Calif.) |
| Place of death | Berkeley (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | California Academy of Sciences |
| Found in | The All-American Canal, 1920: t.p. (C.E. Grunsky) Colusa County biographies website, March 12, 2006 (C.E. Grunsky; b. Stockton April 4, 1855; 1877 employed by California State; engineer engaged in various irrigation and drainage projects) WW on the Web, viewed March 16, 2010 (Carl Ewald Grunsky; b. San Joaquin Co., Calif., Apr. 4, 1855; d. Jan. 9, 1934; civil engineer) Grunsky, C. Next step, 1915: t.p. (C. Ewald Grunsky) Online Archive of California. Grunsky Family Papers, 1830-1969, viewed 18 March 2010 (Carl Ewald Grunsky was born in 1855. He worked with the State Engineering Department of California and the Examining Commission on Rivers and Harbors of California. Grunsky continued in private practice while consulting for the San Francisco Sewage Commission, the Commissioner of Public Works of California, and as San Francisco's first City Engineer from 1901-1904. Grunsky was a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission in 1904-1905 then a consulting engineer with the U.S. Reclamation Service from 1905-1907, while continuing private practice in New York and San Francisco. He was elected a resident member of the California Academy of Sciences in 1896 and was the Academy's President from 1912 until his death in 1934. Carl Ewald Grunsky married Martha Kate Powers in 1883, and they had four children. Carl Ewald Jr. and Eugene Lucius followed their father's footsteps and became engineers) askArt online, viewed September 9, 2016 (Carl Ewald Grunsky (1855-1934); Born in Stockton, CA on April 4, 1855. His watercolors of Sutter's Fort (1890 and 1892), are held in the California State Library and Society of California Pioneers. While city engineer for San Francisco (1900-04), his surveys for the Hetch-Hetchy Dam gained him national attention; Theodore Roosevelt then appointed him to the Panama Canal Commission. During his later years he devoted himself to the California Academy of Sciences. He died on June 9, 1934 in Berkeley, CA.) <http://www.askart.com/artist/Carl_Ewald_Grunsky/11003946/Carl_Ewald_Grunsky.aspx#> |
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