Obituary

John Bogart, civil engineer, died of pneumonia on April 26, 1920, at his home, 640 Madison Ave., New York, after an illness of eleven days. Mr. Bogart, a descendent of a Dutch family which settled in Albany in 1639, was associated during his early career with the development of Central Park. During the Civil War he worked on the fortification of Fort Monroe and other points. Subsequently he became chief engineer of the Park Department of New York, New York State engineer, constructing engineer of the Washington Bridge, New York, and chief engineer of the Rapid Transit Commission. Mr. Bogart was one of the foster fathers of the Institute, as it was during his term as secretary of the A. S. C. E. back in the pioneer days of Institute history, 1885 to 1887, that the Institute was granted permission to use the rooms of the A. S. C. E. on Twenty-third Street as a meeting place and home.