California State Officials Biographies 1911

AUSTIN B. FLETCHER

Submitted by Nancy Pratt Melton

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HIGHWAY ENGINEER
AUSTIN B. FLETCHER (Republican) was born at Cambridge, Massachusetts, and 
educated in the public schools of that city and at Harvard University, where he 
received the degree of B.S. in 1893; during the years 1893 to 1910 he was the 
executive officer of the Massachusetts Highway Commission, and after 1902 was 
its Chief Engineering Officer. During this period, the Commission built nearly 
800 miles of state highways. In January, 1910, assumed the position of 
secretary-engineer of the San Diego County (California) Highway Commission and 
had full charge, under the direction of the Commission, of the main public 
highway work in that county until August, 1911. In 1907 he was appointed to be a 
special agent of the Office of Public Roads of the United States Department of 
Agriculture. In 1908 he served as a delegate from Massachusetts at the First 
International Road Congress at Paris. He has been a member of the Boston Society 
of Civil Engineers since 1894 and of the American Society of Civil Engineers 
since June, 1909. For fourteen years he was the secretary of the Massachusetts 
Highway Association, and is now an honorary member of that organization; he has 
recently been chosen as a director of the American Road Builders' Association.
 
Source: California Blue Book, or State Roster, 1911
Compiled by Frank C. Jordan, Secretary of State
Friend W. Richardson, Superintendent of State Printing, Sacramento, CA, 1913