William Rea Holway (April 29, 1893 - April 23, 1981), commonly known as W. R. Holway , is a leading American civil engineer in Oklahoma. He is famous for his work on the main water supply project for Tulsa city, and at the Pensacola Dam in Grand Lake o 'the Cherokees.
Holway came to Tulsa in 1918, where he became an urban waterworker. In 1920, he was hired as a consultant engineer to plan a pipeline to bring water from Lake Spavinaw to Tulsa. He founded the company W. R. Holway and Associates in 1922. Holway is chief engineer for the Pensacola Dam, which created the Grand Lake in Cherokees on the Grand River (Lower Neosho River), in northeastern Oklahoma. Construction began in 1938 and was completed in 1940. At that time, it was the longest multi-arch dam in the world. In 1952, W. R. Holway and Associates were engineering companies that built Lake Eucha, which served as additional storage and as a buffer for Lake Spavinaw.
He and his family also contribute to other aspects of Tulsa's development. In 1922, he was co-founder of All Souls Unitarian Church, with Richard Lloyd Jones, the owner of Tulsa Tribune. In 1922, his wife founded Tulsa Little Theater, which was later renamed Tulsa Theater.. Years later, after All Souls became the largest Unitarian church in the United States, Hope Holway was honored when the Unitarian Universal Church of Hope was named for him. Both of their sons became engineers and joined their father's consulting firm.
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He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1916 with a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering and married Frances Hope Kerr on July 28, 1916.
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Technical career
Holway's first job was as an assistant engineer in Providence, Rhode Island, and then as an engineer for an irrigation plant in Alliance, Ohio. This was apparently smooth, and Holways moved to Tulsa in 1918.
In 1918, W. R. became a municipal water machine engineer for Tulsa, responsible for a water treatment plant that filters out mud from Arkansas River water which is then distributed for residential use. The filtering plant was never done as designed. He recommends that the city not spend more money trying to make Arkansas water drinkable because it also has a higher salt content than sea water. He then went into business for himself on a paving project near Sand Springs. He founded the company W. R. Holway and Associates in 1922.
Spavinaw Project
Civil leaders have long realized that the Arkansas River is an unreliable source of water supplies in Tulsa. Beginning in 1908, they studied many different approaches to solve water supply problems. One study concluded that Spavinaw Creek can provide much water that can flow by gravity at least as far as Catoosa, Oklahoma. They have decided to build a reservoir at Spavinaw Creek, the tributary of the Neosho River, more than fifty miles northeast of Tulsa. Holway was elected chief engineer for this project in 1920. He is credited with designing a 55-mile (89 km) pipeline that can bring water to Lake Yahola in Tulsa using a gravity flow system alone. The line began operating in 1924, and was the longest line in the US at the time. Its construction is not simple. Holway had to build a railroad and telephone line from Tulsa, where a 60-inch (1.5 m) and 84-inch (2.1 m) diameter pipe was built, to the location of the dam.
The engineering problem was not the only problem Holway faced. The Ku Klux Klan had become a powerful political force in Oklahoma in the 1920s. While Holway assembled a team of 40 people to oversee the Spavinaw project, three Klansmen presented him to demand that he sack three Roman Catholics. He refused to do so, though he admitted a Clan as his own banker. Knowing the Clan's reputation for violence, he then keeps the weapons loaded, even tying them to the steering wheel of his car.
The Spavinaw system exceeds the original design requirement, which calls for meeting the water needs of Tulsa for 25 years. It can actually produce 60 million gallons per day with gravity flow. The second pump and pipe were added much later, to meet peak summer consumption. In 2009, Tulsa still received more than half of its water from a system designed by Holway.
Pensacola Dam Project
The Grand River Dam Authority chose Holway as chief engineer for the Pensacola Dam project (also known as Grand River Dam). This dam will create the Grand Lake o 'the Cherokees in northeastern Oklahoma on the lower Neosho River. Construction began in 1938 and was completed in 1941. At that time, it was the world's longest multi-arch dam.
Lake Eucha
In 1952, Lake Eucha was created by the completion of the Upper Eucha dam from Lake Spavinaw. It serves as an additional storage and as a buffer for Lake Spavinaw. W. R. Holway and Associates are responsible for engineering work for this project.
Personal life
As a child, Holway was baptized at the West Barnstable Congregation Church. He made money by delivering milk, herding cows and working in his stable father's stable. He graduated from Sandwich Academy, attended Dartmouth College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While in high school, W.R. In love with Hope Kerr, who is seven years older than him. He graduated from Radcliffe College in 1910, then came to Sandwich to teach the school. They married July 28, 1916, right after he graduated from MIT.
Both Holway sons also graduated from MIT with degrees in civil engineering and joined their father at W. R. Holway and Associates. William Nye "Bill" Holway (1920-2007) succeeded his father as president of a consulting firm, which was later acquired by The Benham Group of Oklahoma City. Donal Kerr Holway (1917-2009) also spent his career in the family company. The family company continues to play a role in various water and electricity projects in the area.
Frances Hope Kerr Holway (1886 - 1968) works at her husband's engineering company, being a full partner responsible for office personnel and management. Originally from New York, he earned an AB degree from Radcliffe College in 1910. He is also a published author, whose work includes: Early Teachers from the South and the West, 1820-1865, (2 volumes)) , Water Stories, Holway-Kerr Family Book , Radical Yesterday , and History of All Souls Unitarian Church of Tulsa: 1921-1971 . After moving to Tulsa with her husband, he founded Tulsa Little Theater in 1922, and served as president for several years. He died in Tulsa on August 27, 1968. His papers are in the Library of Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger on the History of Women in America at Harvard University.
Holway died in Tulsa on 23 April 1981.
Legacy
In 1921, W. R. Holway was one of the founders of All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa. The Church later grew to become the largest congregation in the Unitarian Universalist Association, and the son of Bill Holway was instrumental in establishing a spin-off Act church in southern Tulsa, named Hope Unitarian Universalist Church. The grandson of W. R. Holway, Bill Hamilton-Holway, is co-minister of the Berkeley Unitarian Universalist Church with his wife, Barbara.
Lake W. R. Holway, also known as W. R. Holway Reservoir and formerly known as the Chimney Stone Reservoir, is named for this man. It is northwest of the city of Locust Grove, Oklahoma.
References
External links
- W. R. Holway. "Dam on the Great River". Chronicles of Oklahoma 26: 3 (1948) 329-334. (Retrieved 8 April 2011).
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