David Bates Douglass
American civil and military engineer; academic administrator; and cemetery architect (1790-1849) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 59
David Bates Douglass was a civil and military engineer, who worked on a broad set of projects throughout his career.
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For fifteen years he was a professor at the United States Military Academy, and after his resignation from the army he worked as a consulting engineer while holding academic appointments at various colleges and universities. He was the third president of Kenyon College (1841-1845), and when he died in 1849 he was the chair of the Mathematics Department at Hobart College.
