BIO: E. W. HESS, Clearfield County, PA
 
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From Twentieth Century History of Clearfield County, Pennsylvania,
and Representative Citizens, by Roland D. Swoope, Jr.,
Chicago: Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company, 1911, page 425.
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  E. W. HESS, civil engineer, with offices in the Kratzer Building, at 
Clearfield, Pa., and in the Deposit Bank Building, at DuBois, Pa., has a 
professional reputation second to few in this section of Pennsylvania.  Mr. 
Hess was born on a farm in Columbia county, Pa., September 5, 1868.
  Mr. Hess was educated in the public schools and a local academy and taught 
school for a short time before 1887, when he began work as a surveyor and civil 
engineer.  His first important railroad work was for the Louisville & Nashville 
and after it was satisfactorily completed, he was engaged by the Erie Railroad, 
the Norfolk & Western Railroad and the Pennsylvania Lines west of Pittsburg, 
and later for the New York Central.  He also assisted in the building of the 
Lehigh Traction Company line at Hazelton, and from there to Wilkes Barre.  He 
opened his Clearfield office in 1900 and his DuBois office five years later and 
finds it necessary to maintain them both.  Mr. Hess and his associates have 
done engineering on the construction of many of the street railway systems in 
the state, notably:  the Philipsburg Street Railway; the DuBois Street Railway 
and the Patton, Pa., Street Railway, and they have also put through a number of 
railroads in this state and in the Southern States, for lumber and other 
business firms.  Mr. Hess has done some remarkable work in the line of 
construction for the water supplies and building of reservoirs in different 
cities, and the residents of Clearfield, Du Bois and Fall Creek point with 
justifiable pride to their complete and efficient systems.  Mr. Hess and his 
firm have charge of the engineering for Clearfield, Curwensville, DuBois, 
Coalport and Fall Creek, in Clearfield county and for Brockwayville, and 
Sykesville, in Jefferson county.
  Mr. Hess was married June 10, 1899, to Miss Maude Bouton.  They enjoy a 
beautiful home which is situated at No. 409 Locust street, Clearfield, and they 
attend the Presbyterian church.  In politics Mr. Hess is a Republican.  He is 
prominent in Masonry, belonging to various branches at Clearfield and to the 
Consistory at Williamsport.