David Bates Douglass

David Bates Douglass was a civil and military engineer, who worked on a broad set of projects throughout his career. 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.