BIO: Mortimer G. Barnes; New York State
surname: Barnes

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

     Mortimer G. Barnes, civil engineer and member of the American Society of 
Civil Engineers, was born in Reedsburg, Wis.. on January 17, 1867. He was
educated at the University of Michigan in the engineering department,
receiving the degree of B.S. (C.E) and later taking a post-graduate course in
hydraulics and masonry received the degree of C. E. He began the practice of
civil engineering on surveys and construction of railroads in Nebraska.    He was
elected county surveyor of Boone County, Nebraska, in 1891. For a short time
he served as Assistant City Engineer of Ann Arbor. Mich., on surveys and sewer
construction. He was engaged for four working seasons on the construction of
the Poe Lock and its power house, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and was appointed
Assistant Chief Engineer for the Lake Super ior Power Company in 1896. In the
fall of 1897 he was appointed assist- ant to Joseph Ripley on the surveys and
preliminary design of the Birmingham Canal, extending from Birmingham, Ala.,
to the Black Warrior River, about sixty-five miles in length. In the spring of
1898 he was appointed Hydraulic Engineer for the Chandler-Dunbar Power Company
to design tbeir power plant to be constructed at Sault Ste Marie, Mich. Upon
the completion of that design he was engaged as chief of a party on the United
States deep waterway surveys in Northetn New York and Canada, remaining with
that work until its completion in 1899. He was then engaged on the design and 
construction of the Ill inois and Mississippi Canal until 1905, when he was
appointed to the position of United States Assistant Engineer in charge of
design and construction of a lock in the Mississippi river at Moline, Ill. He
had little more than got this work under contract when he was appointed
assistant to Joseph Ripley in  direct charge of the designing force for the
locks, dams and regulating works for the Panama Canal. Upon the completion of
the preliminary design and report thereon he resigned from that position to
accept one with the New York Board of Water Supply.

     He was appointed a member of the Advisory Board of Consulting Engifloors
for the improvement of the State Canals by Governor Hughes in July, 1907.