| Abstract | Biographical sketch of Ernest Howard, senior partner of Ash-Howard-Needles & Tammen, consulting engineers at 1012 Baltimore Avenue. He was born in Toronto in 1880 and came to Kansas City about 1901 as an engineer on bridges, railroads, etc. Description of his later career, co-organizing "the firm, Ash-Howard-Needles & Tammen" in 1928 and engaged in work on projects around the nation and in Kansas City, including the "reconstruction of the Intercity Viaduct," the Blue River Bridge" at 63rd Street, the North Kansas City Bridge, the 12th Street Viaduct, the 23rd Street Viaduct, the Sebree Bridge, the 15th Street Viaduct, the Turkey Creek Tunnel, the James Street Bridge, the Central Avenue Bridge, the Kansas City Southern Bridge, bridges over the Kansas River and from Grandview, Missouri, to Kansas City, etc. |