DONALD A.
MATHESON
THE Engineer in Chief of the Caledonian Railway Company is a
native of Perthshire, and received his education at Perth Academy, the Watt
College, Edinburgh, and Owen's College, Manchester. After serving an
apprenticeship with the late Mr. John Young, C.E., Perth, he gained experience
in the employment of several railway contractors, and when the underground
Glasgow line of the Caledonian Railway was begun, he was appointed resident
engineer for the work. The line cost some £2,000,000, and on its completion Mr.
Matheson was retained upon the permanent staff of the Company as Engineer for
the Western District. Finally, in 1899, he succeeded the late Mr. George Graham,
C.E., as Engineer-in-Chief. In 1903 he was sent by the directors to study
railway methods of engineering in the United States and Canada. Among societies
of which he is a member are the Institution of Civil Engineers and the American
Society of Civil Engineers. He is a member of council of the Institution of
Engineers and Shipbuilders, and is on the railway section of the Engineering
Standards' Committee of the Institution of Civil Engineers. He has also been
chairman of the Railway Engineers' Association of the United Kingdom, and is
President of the Glasgow Association of Students of the Institution of Civil
Engineers. Further, in July, 1900, he became Major in the Engineers and Railway
Volunteer Staff Corps.
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