Hiram M. Chittenden

(1858-1917) lived in Omaha. Historian and civil engineer, a pioneer advocate of federal aid to irrigation in the American West in the 1890s, he was credited as being instrumental in passage of Newlands Act of 1902 that first authorized federal construction of irrigation dams; he led efforts to preserve Yellowstone and Yosemite as national parks, and published five historical books and one article. Consult Historians of the American Frontier (Greenwood Press, 1988) 183-190 and American National Biography, Vol 4 (1999) 825-827.

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