Lewis Kingman
Lewis Kingman was a civil engineer, who surveyed and built several thousands of miles of railroad lines.Biography
Lewis Kingman was born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts on February 26, 1845. He studied engineering with Shedd & Edison, a civil engineering company in Boston, Massachusetts. Initially, he worked in the oil fields of Pennsylvania, but when the boom busted, he looked elsewhere for employment.
In 1868 he began to work at the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad and was responsible for building lines in Missouri, Kansas, Colorado and Mexico. In 1880 he surveyed and built the line from Flagstaff to Needles through what became Kingman, Arizona. Two cities, Kingman, Arizona and Kingman, Kansas where named after him, as he had brought transportation and subsequently settlement to isolated areas.
He died in Mexico on January 22, 1912.
