Frank crowe biography

By Dov Silverman

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For the American physician, see Frank W. Crowe. For the English footballer, see Frank Crowe (footballer). For the Australian rugby league player, see Frank Crowe (rugby league).

Francis Trenholm Crowe (()October 12, – ()February 26, ) was a Canadian civil engineer and employee of Morrison-Knudsen, who later became in , the General Construction Superintendent of the Hoover Dam construction contract.

Born in Trenholmville, Quebec, Crowe attended the Governor Dummer Academy, matriculating to the University of Maine where he graduated in with a degree in civil engineering. The University's Francis Crowe Society is named in his honor. Crowe became interested in the American west during a lecture given by Frank Elwin Weymouth (), a civil engineer with the United States Bureau of Reclamation.^[1] He signed up for a summer job before the end of the lecture. That summer job began a year career with the reclamation service that would change the face of the American west. In , Frank Crowe left the United States Bureau of Reclamation to join the construction firm of Morrison-Knudsen in Boise, Idaho. Morrison-Knudsen had recently signed a partnership with the larger Utah Construction Company to build dams.

While working on the Arrowrock Dam in

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