David McNeely Stauffer was the son of Jacob Stauffer & Mary Knox McNeely.
David McNeely Knox Stauffer married Florence Scribner, daughter of Gilbert Hilton Schribner and Sarah Woodbury Pettingill on 14 Apr 1892.
Sadly, both their children died in infancy: Daughter Florence d. 24 May 1895 and son David McNeely Knox Stauffer, Jr. b. 3 Jun 1903 died 10 July 1903.
David Stauffer's bio from the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution gives his ancestry as -
Grandson of David McNeely & Mary Knox, great-grand son of Andrew Knox & Isabella White and 2nd great-grandson of David Knox & Martha Jenkin.
David McNeely attended the Franklin & Marshall College on a scholarship and graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering.
David Stauffer was a Civil War veteran. He commanded the USS Alexandria on the Mississippi River for the Union Navy.
After the War, he was division engineer for the Philadelphia & Reading Railway, assistant engineer on the Delaware & Roundbrook Railway as well as engineer in charge of the construction of the South Street Bridge in Philadelphia being the first American engineer to use a pneumatic process for sinking iron columns and he also was the engineer on the building of the Dorchester Bay tunnel in Boston, MA.
Mr. Stauffer was the editor in chief of the periodical "Engineering News".
He was elected to the American Society of Civil engineers, became the second American to be appointed to the Royal Institute of Civil Engineers in London, England, was appointed a member of the Interstate Palisades Park Commission and was a member of the Empire State Society of Sons Of the American Revolution and president of the Yonkers Chapter. Other organizations he belonged to were the Loyal Legion, the Century Club, the Naval Order of the United States, the Union League of Philadelphia and founder of the Penn Club of Philadelphia.
David McNeely Knox Stauffer's full obituary can be found here:
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%209/New%20York%20NY%20Sun/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201913%20%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201913%20%20Grayscale%20-%200938.pdf#xml=http://www.fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffffde7effcf&DocId=7770411&Index=Z%3a%2fFulton%20Historical&HitCount=10&hits=d22+d57+f6d+12e1+1300+1324+133a+134b+14c6+14d2+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf
David McNeely Knox Stauffer married Florence Scribner, daughter of Gilbert Hilton Schribner and Sarah Woodbury Pettingill on 14 Apr 1892.
Sadly, both their children died in infancy: Daughter Florence d. 24 May 1895 and son David McNeely Knox Stauffer, Jr. b. 3 Jun 1903 died 10 July 1903.
David Stauffer's bio from the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution gives his ancestry as -
Grandson of David McNeely & Mary Knox, great-grand son of Andrew Knox & Isabella White and 2nd great-grandson of David Knox & Martha Jenkin.
David McNeely attended the Franklin & Marshall College on a scholarship and graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering.
David Stauffer was a Civil War veteran. He commanded the USS Alexandria on the Mississippi River for the Union Navy.
After the War, he was division engineer for the Philadelphia & Reading Railway, assistant engineer on the Delaware & Roundbrook Railway as well as engineer in charge of the construction of the South Street Bridge in Philadelphia being the first American engineer to use a pneumatic process for sinking iron columns and he also was the engineer on the building of the Dorchester Bay tunnel in Boston, MA.
Mr. Stauffer was the editor in chief of the periodical "Engineering News".
He was elected to the American Society of Civil engineers, became the second American to be appointed to the Royal Institute of Civil Engineers in London, England, was appointed a member of the Interstate Palisades Park Commission and was a member of the Empire State Society of Sons Of the American Revolution and president of the Yonkers Chapter. Other organizations he belonged to were the Loyal Legion, the Century Club, the Naval Order of the United States, the Union League of Philadelphia and founder of the Penn Club of Philadelphia.
David McNeely Knox Stauffer's full obituary can be found here:
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%209/New%20York%20NY%20Sun/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201913%20%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201913%20%20Grayscale%20-%200938.pdf#xml=http://www.fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffffde7effcf&DocId=7770411&Index=Z%3a%2fFulton%20Historical&HitCount=10&hits=d22+d57+f6d+12e1+1300+1324+133a+134b+14c6+14d2+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf
David McNeely Stauffer was the son of Jacob Stauffer & Mary Knox McNeely.
David McNeely Knox Stauffer married Florence Scribner, daughter of Gilbert Hilton Schribner and Sarah Woodbury Pettingill on 14 Apr 1892.
Sadly, both their children died in infancy: Daughter Florence d. 24 May 1895 and son David McNeely Knox Stauffer, Jr. b. 3 Jun 1903 died 10 July 1903.
David Stauffer's bio from the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution gives his ancestry as -
Grandson of David McNeely & Mary Knox, great-grand son of Andrew Knox & Isabella White and 2nd great-grandson of David Knox & Martha Jenkin.
David McNeely attended the Franklin & Marshall College on a scholarship and graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering.
David Stauffer was a Civil War veteran. He commanded the USS Alexandria on the Mississippi River for the Union Navy.
After the War, he was division engineer for the Philadelphia & Reading Railway, assistant engineer on the Delaware & Roundbrook Railway as well as engineer in charge of the construction of the South Street Bridge in Philadelphia being the first American engineer to use a pneumatic process for sinking iron columns and he also was the engineer on the building of the Dorchester Bay tunnel in Boston, MA.
Mr. Stauffer was the editor in chief of the periodical "Engineering News".
He was elected to the American Society of Civil engineers, became the second American to be appointed to the Royal Institute of Civil Engineers in London, England, was appointed a member of the Interstate Palisades Park Commission and was a member of the Empire State Society of Sons Of the American Revolution and president of the Yonkers Chapter. Other organizations he belonged to were the Loyal Legion, the Century Club, the Naval Order of the United States, the Union League of Philadelphia and founder of the Penn Club of Philadelphia.
David McNeely Knox Stauffer's full obituary can be found here:
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%209/New%20York%20NY%20Sun/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201913%20%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201913%20%20Grayscale%20-%200938.pdf#xml=http://www.fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffffde7effcf&DocId=7770411&Index=Z%3a%2fFulton%20Historical&HitCount=10&hits=d22+d57+f6d+12e1+1300+1324+133a+134b+14c6+14d2+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf
David McNeely Knox Stauffer married Florence Scribner, daughter of Gilbert Hilton Schribner and Sarah Woodbury Pettingill on 14 Apr 1892.
Sadly, both their children died in infancy: Daughter Florence d. 24 May 1895 and son David McNeely Knox Stauffer, Jr. b. 3 Jun 1903 died 10 July 1903.
David Stauffer's bio from the Empire State Society of the Sons of the American Revolution gives his ancestry as -
Grandson of David McNeely & Mary Knox, great-grand son of Andrew Knox & Isabella White and 2nd great-grandson of David Knox & Martha Jenkin.
David McNeely attended the Franklin & Marshall College on a scholarship and graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering.
David Stauffer was a Civil War veteran. He commanded the USS Alexandria on the Mississippi River for the Union Navy.
After the War, he was division engineer for the Philadelphia & Reading Railway, assistant engineer on the Delaware & Roundbrook Railway as well as engineer in charge of the construction of the South Street Bridge in Philadelphia being the first American engineer to use a pneumatic process for sinking iron columns and he also was the engineer on the building of the Dorchester Bay tunnel in Boston, MA.
Mr. Stauffer was the editor in chief of the periodical "Engineering News".
He was elected to the American Society of Civil engineers, became the second American to be appointed to the Royal Institute of Civil Engineers in London, England, was appointed a member of the Interstate Palisades Park Commission and was a member of the Empire State Society of Sons Of the American Revolution and president of the Yonkers Chapter. Other organizations he belonged to were the Loyal Legion, the Century Club, the Naval Order of the United States, the Union League of Philadelphia and founder of the Penn Club of Philadelphia.
David McNeely Knox Stauffer's full obituary can be found here:
http://www.fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%209/New%20York%20NY%20Sun/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201913%20%20Grayscale/New%20York%20NY%20Sun%201913%20%20Grayscale%20-%200938.pdf#xml=http://www.fultonhistory.com/dtSearch/dtisapi6.dll?cmd=getpdfhits&u=ffffffffde7effcf&DocId=7770411&Index=Z%3a%2fFulton%20Historical&HitCount=10&hits=d22+d57+f6d+12e1+1300+1324+133a+134b+14c6+14d2+&SearchForm=C%3a%5cinetpub%5cwwwroot%5cFulton%5fNew%5fform%2ehtml&.pdf
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