A. L. A. Himmelwright
American writer and engineer
Abraham Lincoln Artman Himmelwright (February 7, 1865 – March 24, 1936) was a civil engineer, author, builder, adventurer, and marksman who was general manager of The Roebling Construction Company, the New York City firm created by John A. Roebling's Sons Company of Trenton, New Jersey. Himmelwright's first and second names were given to him by his parents to honor the slain president, Abraham Lincoln, assassinated the year Himmelwright was born. In most of the works he authored he went by the name "ALA Himmelwright".
Biography
He was born on February 7, 1865, in Milford Square, Pennsylvania. In 1894 he was with the Carlin hunting party which left its cook, George Colgate behind to die. He purchased land in the Stockholm section of Hardyston Township, New Jersey and in 1907 completed a fireproof house made of stone. He died in 1936.
Publications
Himmelwright authored many books and articles, including a harrowing tale of a hunting trip in the Bitterroot Mountains of Idaho and a first-hand account of the famous Johnstown flood in Pennsylvania, published in Harper's Magazine. The former recounted the fate of the "Carlin Hunting Party", in which Himmelwright participated. He wrote the account under the pseudonym Heclawa because of the national notoriety which occurred when the disaster reached the nation's newspapers.
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