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Hill, Warren E. (American engineer and draftsman, died 1908)
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Note: Warren E. Hill was a draftsman, engineer, and long-time assistant to Thomas Fitch Rowland, owner of Continental Works in Green Point, Long Island (now part of Brooklyn, NY). Hill oversaw the construction at Continental Works of John Ericsson's first floating steam battery, later named Monitor by Ericsson, in 1861-1862. The specification book in this collection indicates that he may have also worked on the ironclads of the Passaic class and on the light-draft monitor Cohoes for the Union Navy. When the business was incorporated in 1887 as the Continental Iron Works, Hill was named one of its vice-presidents. Warren Hill became president of Continental Iron Works after the retirement of Thomas F. Rowland and served in that capacity until his death in 1908. Little is known of Hill. He was married and lived on Washington Street in Brooklyn. He had at least one daughter, Ethel, who was married in October 1899 to Tracy Peck, Jr., of New Haven, CT. Professionally and socially active, Hill was a member of the New England Society in the City of Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Urban League, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers. He was the author of at least one publication, an 1894 article on welded steel steam pipes. Hill was also a collector of paintings, having lent several of his artworks to the Brooklyn Union League for an art show in 1893. A sale of paintings from his estate in January 1911 was the subject of a story in the New York Times.
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(American engineer and draftsman, died 1908) ..... [PROV Preferred]
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