Samuel Arnold Greeley (August 8, 1882,

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– February 3, 1968,

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) was an American civil engineer. He was largely responsible for the North Shore Sanitary District works from 1913 until 1963, and founded the engineering firm of ''Greeley & Hansen'' (originally Pearse & Greeley) Consulting Engineers in 1914. ''Hydraulicians in the USA 1800-2000: A biographical dictionary of leaders in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics''
by Willi H. Hager; CRC Press, 2015; page 2096 He received the ASCE

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in 1931, and the Rudolph Hering Medal in 1932.. In 1951, he was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal by the

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for his accomplishments in civil engineering. The ''Samuel Arnold Greeley'' award for work on water supply, drainage, and related areas was established in 1968 by the

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of which he was a past Director. He first studied at

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, receiving his B.A. in 1903, and from there he entered the

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, receiving a B.S. in

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in 1906.''Technology Review: Volume 8''
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'', Association of Alumni and Alumnae of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1906; page 335 His thesis was on

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and he suffered from

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as a result, delaying his MIT graduation by a year. Samuel Arnold Greeley - Illinois Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers
page 84 His first job was with Rudolph Hering for whom he was a principal assistant. They wrote a textbook published in 1921 on "Collection and Disposal of Municipal Refuse" which was used for many years. In 1912, he worked with Langdon Pearse for the Sanitary District of Chicago, and, in 1914, they founded "Pearse & Greeley" which later became "Pearse, Greeley & Hansen" in 1920, then "Greeley & Hansen" in 1932. In

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, he had to design

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for 35,000 men, which later had to be enlarged, at

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. His success led him to be appointed sanitary engineer for the

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for the Great Lakes, Pacific and northeast coasts of the US. During the

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, he served on the

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Engineering Board of Review. He later served as president of the Illinois Section of ASCE, and as national director of the ASCE.

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