Corey family.

Harry Thomas Cory was born on May 27, 1870 in Lafayette, IN; BME (1887), BCE (1889), Purdue Univ.; MCE (1893), MME (1896), Cornell Univ.; Dr. Engineering, Purdue Univ., 1929; became asst. engineer at A. & M. Railway in 1888, after which he undertook numerous engineering projects including one with the Southern Pacific Railroad, where he was personally in charge of diverting the Colorado River from running to the Salton Sea (1906-7); also worked on projects for the Egyptian and Sudanese governments and in French and Spanish Morocco, before becoming a consulting engineer in Los Angeles; publications include Irrigation and river control in the Colorado River Delta (1913) and The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink (1915); Clarence Linus Cory was born in Lafayette on Sept. 4, 1872; BME, Purdue Univ., 1889; ME, Cornell Univ., 1891; ED, Purdue Univ., 1914; professor of electrical engineering, Highland Park College, Des Moines, IA, 1891-2; professor of electrical engineering in 1892, and dean of the College of Mechanics in 1901, UC Berkeley; he died on Aug. 2, 1937.

From the description of Papers, 1896-1932. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 40297729