{"id":2176,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2176"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"sibert, william luther, 1860-1935  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2176","title":{"rendered":"SIBERT, WILLIAM LUTHER, 1860-1935"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Army officer, engineer.  Born&#8211;  Oct. 12, 1860, in Gadsden, Ala.  Parents&#8211;  William  Joshua and Marietta (Ward) Sibert.  Married&#8211;  Mary Margaret Cummings in Sept. 1887.  Children&#8211;  Eight.  Married&#8211;  Juliet  Roberts in June 1917.  Married&#8211;  Evelyn Clyne Bairnsfather on June 8, 1922.  Education&#8211;  attended University of Alabama, 1878-1880; U.S. Military Academy, B.S.  Served in U.S. Army Engineers 1884-1920; worked on rivers in Kentucky; on construction of ship channel connecting Great Lakes; instructor in Civil Engineering School of Application; chief for Eighth Army; chief engineer and general manager of Manila and Dagupan Railroad; in charge of Louisville and Pittsburgh River District; member of Isthmian Canal Commission at Gatun Locks for Panama Canal; chairman of flood prevention for China&#8217;s Huan River; first U.S. division of troops in France, 1917; commanded Southeastern Department of Charleston; organized and directed U.S. Army&#8217;s Chemical Warfare Service; after retirement in 1920 chairman and chief engineer for Alabama State Docks Commission; chairman, board of engineers and geologists in 1928 to report on feasibility of Boulder Dam; president American Association of Port Authorities 1919-1930. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who Was Who in America, Vol. 1; National Cyclopedia of American Biography, vol. 35.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Construction of the Panama Canal.  New York;  D. Appleton, 1915.  <\/p>\n<p>     Report of Board of Engineers on the Huan River Conservancy Project in the Provinces of Kiangsiu      and Anhui, China.  Washington, D.C.;  American National Red Cross, 1914. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Army officer, engineer. Born&#8211; Oct. 12, 1860, in Gadsden, Ala. Parents&#8211; William Joshua and Marietta (Ward) Sibert. Married&#8211; Mary Margaret Cummings in Sept. 1887. Children&#8211; Eight. Married&#8211; Juliet Roberts in June 1917. Married&#8211; Evelyn Clyne Bairnsfather on June 8, 1922. Education&#8211; attended University of Alabama, 1878-1880; U.S. Military Academy, B.S. Served in U.S. Army [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}