Walter H. Gahagan

Walter Hamer Gahagan (February 14, 1864 – December 18, 1930)[1] was an American civil engineer and general contractor who owned a construction business based in Brooklyn, New York, and a shipyard in Arverne, Queens.[2] Among other projects, his firm worked on the Lackawanna Cut-Off, an immense railroad project in northwestern New Jersey.[3]

  1. ^ "DEATH - NEWS - MARRIAGE". Brooklyn Standard Union via Ancestry.com. March 23, 1931. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
  2. ^ Asbury, Edith Evans (June 29, 1980). "HELEN GAHAGAN DOUGLAS DIES AT 79; ACTRESS LOST TO NIXON IN SENATE RACE". New York Times. New York. p. 20.
  3. ^ "Proposed modification of the prohibition law to permit the manufacture, sale and use of 2.75 per cent beverages: hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session". Congressional Record. Congress via Government Printing Office. 1924. p. 258. Retrieved November 18, 2012.