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Magnus C. Ihlseng
Professor Magnus Colbjørn Larsen Ihlseng (2.5.1852 i Kristiania - 12.7.1930 i Manhattan, New York, USA), var sønn av Lars Christensen Ihlseng (1824 i Løiten -) og Anna Marie Anderson (1822-).
Bror til gruveingeniør Axel O. Ihlseng (20.2.1855 - 8.12.1934 i Lancaster, Pennsylvania)
Professor Magnus Colbjørn Ihlseng ble gift 13.12.1888 i New York med Agnes M. Reaser (1862 i Kansas), datter av Rev. Joseph G. Reaser (1826 i Pennsylvania-) og Agnes B (1926).
Barn: Dorothy Ihlseng Morrison (1891-), Mary L. (1895 i Pennsylvania-), O. Dagmar Ihlseng Dennison (3.2.1900 i Beaver, Pennsylvania- juni 1974 i Tonawanda, Erie, New York).
Kenneth Bjork;
Dr. Magnus C. Ihlseng is generally regarded as one of the Norwegian engineer group, despite the fact that he received all his technical training at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Preparatory School and Columbia University, at the latter institution he was awarded the Ph.D. degree in 1878. Before and after the degree he served as an instructor in physics at Columbia, leaving in 1881 to become professor in mining engineering at the Colorado State School of mines at Golden.
In 1893 he was appointed dean of the school mines in Pennsylvania State Collge, and in 1889 he became professor og mechanical engineering at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. In 1906 he became examining engineer for the New York municipal civil service.
Se også
Kilde
- Kenneth Bjork. Saga in Steel and Concrete. Norwegian Engineers in America, page 418.
- Ancestry, LaPointe family tree
- History of Ihlseng
- Dåp;SAO, Oslo domkirke Kirkebøker, F/Fa/L0014: Ministerialbok nr. 14, 1850-1857, s. 127