Everything about Virgil Bogue totally explained
Virgil Gay Bogue was born in
Norfolk, New York, on July 20, 1846. He received a degree in civil engineering from the
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in
Troy, New York, in 1868. Bogue worked consecutively on Oroya Railway in
Peru to 1879, the
Northern Pacific Railway to 1886. On the Northern Pacific, he named
Pasco, Washington, after a region known for vicious sandstorms he'd seen while in
South America), built the Northern Pacific and Puget Sound Shore Railroad connecting
Tacoma, Washington to
Seattle, Washington, and discovered
Stampede Pass
After the Northern Pacific, Bogue served as chief engineer of the
Union Pacific Railroad until 1891. Following this, he was also chief engineer on the
Western Maryland Railway and headed up the construction of the
Western Pacific Railroad through California's rugged
Feather River Canyon.
As a consulting engineer, Bogue worked on
Columbia River Navigation,
Commencement Bay and
Grays Harbor, the
New Zealand Railway, the
New York Department of Public Works, and finally, shortly before his death in 1916, the Greater
Seattle Plan.
His "Bogue Plan" was rejected by voters on
March 5,
1912 by a 10,000-vote margin
(External Link
). It would have established Seattle's first comprehensive plan and a variety of improvements, including a civic center in the new
Denny Regrade area. The civic center was eventually realized five decades later as
Seattle Center, more or less in the location Bogue proposed.
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