Marsden Manson ( February 14, 1850, 1850 – February 21, 1931) was an American

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing i ...

. Manson was born in Virginia. He received a bachelor of science and civil engineering degrees in 1873 at the

Virginia Military Institute The Virginia Military Institute (VMI) is a public senior military college in Lexington, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1839 as America's first state military college and is the oldest public senior military college in the U.S. In k ...

and received his Ph.D. in engineering at

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in 1893. Manson worked as a civil engineer for several institutions in California, in particular in the San Francisco area. He died in Berkeley.

Books and publications

* ''"The Evolution of Climate"'', 1922

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* 1850 births 1931 deaths American civil engineers Virginia Military Institute alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni {{US-engineer-stub