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Clifford Milburn Holland

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HOLLAND, CLIFFORD MILBURN American engineer, was born at Somerset (Mass.), on March 13, 1883. He graduated at Harvard university in 1906, and was soon appointed assistant engineer of the Battery-Joralemon street tun nel, New York city. On the completion of this work in 1908, he was in charge of a portion of the Fourth avenue subway in Brooklyn. In 1914 he took direct charge of the Old Slip-Clark street and Whitehall-Montague street tunnels, and later of the Willoughby, 14th and 6oth street tunnels in New York city, all, like the Battery-Joralemon street tunnel, connecting Manhattan and Long Island. On July 1, 1919, he became chief engineer of the New York and New Jersey interstate bridge and tunnel commis sions for the construction of a vehicular tunnel under the Hudson river. He died on Oct. 27, 1924, at Battle Creek, Michigan. A short time after his death the Hudson river tunnel, connecting lower Manhattan with Jersey City, was officially named the "Hol land Tunnel."

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