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<p>New page: <a href="/index.php/File:Imp922.jpg" title="File:Imp922.jpg">left|thumb|150px|Edward C. Blake. Photo courtesy: Bob Reding</a> BLAKE, Edward C. (Dubuque, 1864-- ). City Engineer. Blake learned engineering as a rodman in the City Eng...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Image:imp922.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Edward C. Blake. Photo courtesy: Bob Reding]]<br /> BLAKE, Edward C. (Dubuque, 1864-- ). City Engineer. Blake learned engineering as a rodman in the City Engineer&#039;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.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> [[Category: Civil Servant]]</div>

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