Ferris, George

W., engineer, born at Galesburg, III., Feb. 14, 1859; his early life was spent in Carson City, Nevada, and San Francisco; graduated in engineering from Ren elaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y. (1881); was employed in mining and railroad work in West Virginia, and then as engineer in a bridge works at Louisville; went to Pittsburg (1892) to superintend the structural work being made for the bridge acros8 the Ohio at Henderson, Ky., and while thus engaged designed the gigantic revolving wheel which he subsequently built and exhibited at the Columbian Exposition, and which was one of the mechanical wonders of that great exhibition. Died at Pittsburg, Nov. 22, 1896.