History of Turin, (Lewis County) New York United States of America

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John Chipman Hoadley, civil engineer, was born in Turin, N.Y., Dec. 10, 1818. He attended Utica academy in 1833-36, studying algebra, geometry and surveying, and in May, 1836, became assistant engineer upon the Erie canal enlargement. He studied privately mechanics, hydraulics, French, German, Latin and Greek. In 1844 he removed to Clinton, Mass., where he engaged in building and equipping cotton mills; and in 1848, with Donald McKay, he established locomotive and textile machinery works at Pittsfield, Mass. In 1852 he became superintendent of the Lawrence machine shops. He invented the Hoadley portable engine, which he manufactured until 1873. The legislature of Massachusetts employed him to visit Europe in the interest of a proposed system of sea-coast defences. He helped to organize the Clinton Wire Cloth company, and was agent of the New Bedford Copper company and of the McKay Sewing-Machine association. He was one of the founders of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and contributed to its publications; was a representative in the Massaehusetts legislature one term; served on the state boards of health, lunacy and charity from 1873 for nearly ten years; was an original trustee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a member of various sdientific societies. He received the degree of M.A. from Williams college in 1852. He is the author of: The Curve of Compression in the Steam Enginge (1878); The Combustion of Fuel for Generation of Steam (1881); the Specific Heat of Platinum (1882) ; Warm-Blast Steam-Boiler Furnace (1886). He also edited: Memorial of H. S. Ganseroort (1875). He died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 21, 1886.

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

History of Turin, (Lewis County) New York

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