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William Whitehead Hurlbut - Mr. Hurlbut was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where the wild and woolly West is really wild and woolly. His father was a forty-niner, who returned to Missouri, and in 1859 made his way westward again, pulling up in Cheyenne. ; The Hurlbuts remained in Wyoming until little William was 13, when the family moved to Denver, where William acquired his pigeon breeding hobby and gained his early education. He attended East Denver High School and the Colorado School of Mines, both of which institutions were attended by that other famous Denverite, Douglas Fairbanks. ; Heading coastward in 1900 he continued mining engineer studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and finished his civil engineering work at Stanford University. ; He started his engineering career in Southern California under J. B. Lippincott on a job for the Seaside Dock and Terminal Company in 1904. Later he was with the Pacific Electric Railway and was engaged as a consultant on the Pasadena Water Works. ; His first work with the Department was as a draftsman. The first aqueduct task was in connection with an economic study of the design of Fairmount Dam. He is well known by water works engineers throughout the nation as an authority on water distribution. He has received many honors locally and in State and National waterworks groups. ; In 1928-29 he was secretary-treasurer of the California Section, American Water Works Association, vice-president the following year and president in 1931. In 1932 he was chosen regional director to take office at the close of the Chicago convention in June 1933, and to serve for three years. He is on two national committees to study economic conditions of waterworks personnel and transmission and distribution of cast iron pipe. ; Mr. Hurlbut has taken an aggressive part in plans for beautification of waterworks properties in the city limits of Los Angeles. ; He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works Association, Kappa Sigma fraternity, University Club and Los Angeles Athletic Club. ; William Whitehead Hurlbut was the CEWW and Deputy General Manager of the Water System from October 1943 to April 1945. W. W. Hurlbut, assistant chief engineer and general manager of the Water Bureau, following action by the California section of the American Water Works Association in nominating him to receive the George Warren Fuller award in 1941. The fuller Award is conferred annually to the individual in each A. W. W. A. section who has rendered the most distinguished service in the water supply field. Mr. Hurlbut’s selection was based principally upon his success as chairman of Water Works Practice Sub-committee 7-A in establishing standard specifications for steel pipe. For 20 years this objective had been sought by the Association but no agreement was reached until Mr. Hurlbut took aggressive charge of the program.
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