About Ira G. Hedrick
Lived 1868 – 1937 (aged 68–69). Ira G. Hedrick was an American civil engineer and engineer.
Ira Grant Hedrick (April 6, 1868 – December 28, 1937) was an American civil engineer who designed the Burnside Bridge in Oregon, the Red River Bridge, Clarendon, and Newport bridges in Arkansas, and many other bridges and viaducts.
Hedrick designed many large scale bridges in Arkansas in late 1920s through early 1930s. The Historic American Engineering Record says that he was "one of the outstanding engineers of the South".
Life and career Hedrick was born in West Salem, Illinois. He received his B.S. in civil engineering University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1892. He received another bachelor's degree from the university in 1899 in Applied Science and M.S. degree in 1901. He earned his D.Sc. degree from McGill University in 1905.
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Who was Ira G. Hedrick?
civil engineer
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Ira G. Hedrick was born in 1868.
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Ira G. Hedrick died on 28 December 1937.
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Ira G. Hedrick was a civil engineer and engineer.
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Ira G. Hedrick was American.
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