C. P. Emil Swensson and Catherine Elizabeth Jordan

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Husband C. P. Emil Swensson ¹

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           Born: 12 Dec 1858 - Aalborg, Denmark 1
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         Father: Jean Swensson (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Marie Kathrine Svendsen (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 25 Dec 1883 - Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co, PA 2

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Wife Catherine Elizabeth Jordan ²

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         Father: Johnston Barndollar Jordan (1824-      ) 3 4
         Mother: Lavinia Christina Shoup (1835-      ) 2

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1 M Otto J. Swensson ²

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2 F Christine J. Swensson ²

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3 M Stuart J. Swensson ²

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4 M Henri J. Swensson ²

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General Notes: Husband - C. P. Emil Swensson

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He was educated at the Gymnasium at Halmstad, Sweden, his parents' home; at the Chalmers Polytechnic Institute, Gothenburg, Sweden, graduating as civil engineer and mechanical engineer in 1879; and at Munich and Turich as a private student. Emigrating to the United States in 1881, his first employment was as a common laborer on the old Hudson river railroad tunnel; but only for a very short time, as he obtained a position as draftsman for patent drawings, then with a prominent architect, and finally, in 1882, as assistant and later as resident engineer on the South Pennsylvania railroad, a prospective Vanderbilt competitor of the Pennsylvania railroad, and at that time, from an engineering point of view, the most important railroad enterprise in the United States. The latter road in 1885 bought out the new road, and Mr. Swensson entered the service of the Phoenix Bridge Company, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, as draftsman, and very soon began to manifest a peculiar talent for the branch of the profession known as bridge and structural engineering. In 1887 he accepted an appointment with the Keystone bridge works of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in 1892, when it became a part of the Carnegie Steel Company, became assistant chief engineer. He was made superintendent in 1895 and in 1896 chief engineer, in full charge of the bridge and structural business of the Carnegie Steel Company. In June, 1900, the American Bridge Company bought the Keystone Bridge Company, and he was made manager of the plant, but on January 1, 1901, resigned to open up his own office in Pittsburgh as consulting and constructing engineer.
Since entering upon his private practice he, besides designing, constructing and engineering structures of various kinds for private parties was consulting expert for important enterprises as follows: chief engineer of the proposed Pittsburgh elevated and subway system; consulting engineer to the Pittsburgh rapid transit commission; consulting engineer for the Pittsburgh railways company; designing and supervising engineer for Pennsylvania state bridges; consulting engineer for the United States Government in the matter of widening and increasing the headroom under the Allegheny river bridges, between Pittsburgh and Allegheny City; consulting engineer for part of Boston elevated railroad; steel expert for the builders of New York subway and elevated, rapid transit, etc. Mr. Swensson was a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, was vice-chairman of its committee on concrete and re-inforced concrete; and member of the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania, having been its president in 1897; a member of the American Society for Testing Materials; a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; and a member of the Juniata, Union, Duquesne, German and Country Clubs of Pittsburgh.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 388.

2 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 389.

3 George Dallas Albert, History of the County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 547.

4 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 145, 389.