History of Bound Brook, (Somerset County) New Jersey United States of America

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Henry Smith Craven, engineer, was born at Bound Brook, N.J., Oct. 14, 1845; son of Rear-Admiral Thomas Tingey and Emily (Henderson) Craven. He was educated at St. John's college. Annapolis, and entered Hobart college, N.Y., in the class of 1866, leaving before completing his course to join the army as a Union volunteer. At the close of the war he was employed on the Croton aqueduct works and in 1866 joined the U.S. navy as lieutenant and became secretary to his father, then in command of the North Pacific squadron. In 1869 he was made assistant civil engineer of Mare Island navy yard, Cal. He resigned in 1872 and for seven years practised civil engineering in San Francisco. He again joined the navy as civil engineer in 1879 and was ordered to Chester, Pa., where he was engaged in the construction of the iron floating dock then building at the Roach shipyard for the navy yard at Pensacola. He then went to the navy yard at League Island, Pa., and in 1881 to the navy yard at Portsmouth, N.H. He was assigned to Coostor's Harbor training station in 1882 and in 1883 was granted leave of absence to take charge of the construction of the new Croton aqueduct in New York city where he was engaged three years. He invented an automatic trip for mining buckets (1876) and a tunnelling machine (1883). He was a member of the American society of civil engineers. He received the degree of B.S. from Hobart college in 1878. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 7, 1889.

From: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Johnson, Rossiter, editor

History of Bound Brook, (Somerset County) New Jersey

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