Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Angus, William J 1878 - 
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Author: Goodspeed, W.A., & Healy, D.D. (Eds.)

William J. Angus, prominent Chicago contractor and builder, was born May 28, 
1878, in this city, the son of John and Agnes (Jackson) Angus. A more complete 
sketch of the father is to be found elsewhere in this work.

The subject of this review received his early education in the Chicago public 
schools, later taking courses in the Chicago Manual Training school and in the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, being graduated from the latter with 
the class of 1900. Soon after his graduation he began learning the brick 
masons' trade under the guidance of his father. He subsequently became foreman 
and superintendent, of work contracted by his father in Chicago and different 
parts of the country, and when, in 1902, Angus Bro. & Co. was incorporated, he 
became vice-president of the concern. At the present time Mr. Angus has the 
sole control of the business. The company did the work on the stations and 
platforms of the Ravenswood Elevated railway and also on the Englewood and 
Kenwood extensions. They constructed the round houses and buildings in the 
yards of the Chicago and Indiana Southern railway at Gibson, and seven 
buildings of the Standard Steel Car plant at Hammond. On these two jobs the 
company employed as high as 1,100 men and the work covered the greater part of 
365 acres, several of the buildings being 1,200 to 1,800 feet in length. In 
1898 they completed the lowering of the Washington street tunnel. Among the 
buildings upon which they have worked are the Brand, three large structures on 
Harrison street; the shops of the Indiana & Cincinnati Interurban railway at 
Rushville, Indiana; the shops and power house of the Chicago & Milwaukee 
Electric railway; the shops of the Union Traction company on Wrightwood 
avenue; the gas plant in South Chicago; the James Kirk Soap factory, and many 
others. Mr. Angus is a member of the Chicago Athletic club, the Delta Tau 
Delta fraternity, the Mason and Contractors' association, the Carpenters and 
Builders' club, and the Builders and Traders' club.


Additional Comments:
Goodspeed, W.A., & Healy, D.D. (Eds.). (1909). History of Cook County, 
Illinois. Chicago: The Goodspeed Historical Association.

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