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BLAKE, Edward C.
BLAKE, Edward C. (Dubuque, 1864-- ). City Engineer. Blake learned engineering as a rodman in the City Engineer's office in 1883 and working for the Burlington Railroad Company in 1885. In 1888-1889 he built the famed stone bridge over the Turkey River in Elkader, Iowa. This was the largest stone structure of its kind west of the MISSISSIPPI RIVER. He also constructed a sewage system in Oregon, Illinois; the water system in Moline, Illinois; and did some work in Davenport, Iowa.
Blake was elected City Engineer of Dubuque in 1891. He then took a special course in sanitary and hydraulic engineering at Columbia College, New York.