| 词条 | William Trent Rossell |
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|name= William Trent Rossell |birth_date= {{birth date|1849|10|11}} |death_date= {{death date and age|1919|10|11|1849|10|11}} |birth_place= Mount Vernon, Alabama |death_place= New Brighton, New York |placeofburial= Congressional Cemetery |placeofburial_label= Place of burial |image=William Trent Rossell 4195199758 a68195d28a o.jpg |caption=Brigadier General William T. Rossell, Chief of Engineers 1913 |allegiance= United States of America |branch= United States Army |serviceyears= 1873-1913, 1917-1918 |rank= Brigadier General |commands=Chief of Engineers }} William Trent Rossell was the Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia. BiographyHe was born in Mount Vernon, Alabama on October 11, 1849,[1] the son and grandson of Army officers, and he graduated third in the United States Military Academy class of 1873. Commissioned in the Corps of Engineers, he served until 1880 at Willets Point and as Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Military Academy. He then engaged in river, harbor, and fortification work in regions around Portland, Maine; Jacksonville, Florida; and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Rossell served in 1891-93 as the Engineer Commissioner on the three-member governing board of the District of Columbia. After briefly commanding the Battalion of Engineers, he led Mobile District for six years. He then supervised lighthouse construction and repair in the New York area and, later, Ohio River improvements. He was a member of the Mississippi River Commission from 1906 to 1913, as well as Central Division Engineer in 1908-09 and Eastern Division Engineer in 1909-13. He retired October 11, 1913, but was recalled to active service in 1917. He led the Third New York and Puerto Rico districts and was Northeast Division Engineer. He again retired in 1918. He died October 11, 1919, in New Brighton, New York.[1] References1. ^1 William Trent Rossell on records.ancestry.com Retrieved 2014-10-30. This article contains public domain text from{{cite web | title=Brigadier General William Trent Rossell| work=Portraits and Profiles of Chief Engineers | url=http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/history/coe3.htm#29 | accessdate=August 26, 2005 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20050306124500/http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/history/coe3.htm#29 |archivedate = March 6, 2005}}
| title= Chief of Engineers | before= William Herbert Bixby | after= Dan Christie Kingman | years= 1913 }}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Rossell, William Trent}}{{US-army-bio-stub}}{{US-engineer-stub}}{{WashingtonDC-politician-stub}} 7 : 1849 births|1919 deaths|People from Mobile County, Alabama|United States Army generals|United States Military Academy alumni|Members of the Board of Commissioners for the District of Columbia|Burials at the Congressional Cemetery |
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