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Estevan Antonio Fuertes
Estevan Antonio Fuertes (May 10, 1838 San Juan, Puerto Rico - January 16, 1903 Ithaca, New York) was a Puerto Rican-American civil engineer.
==Biography==
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Estevan Antonio Fuentes was the son of Estevan and Demetria Cherbonnier Fuertes. He received his education at Salamanca, Spain, and at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York. From 1861 to 1863, he was assistant engineer in the Department of Public Works, Puerto Rico, and subsequently served as director of public works for the western district of that island. Coming to the United States in 1864, he was successively assistant engineer and engineer to the Croton Aqueduct Board, and prepared a valuable report on the connection of the Croton water supply with the manufactures of New York City. From 1870 to 1871, he was chief engineer of the American Isthmian Canal expeditions to Tehuantepec and Nicaragua to investigate and report on the practicability of a ship canal connecting the Caribbean and the Pacific.
In 1873, he was appointed dean of the civil engineering department of Cornell, and from 1890 to 1902 directed the college of civil engineering there and brought the equipment of that department up to modern standard. In 1902, he became professor of astronomy at Cornell and supervised the construction of the A. C. Barnes Observatory. The Fuertes Observatory (completed in 1917) on North Campus is named in his honor.
He planned a drainage system for Santos, Brazil. He was a member of many scientific societies, American and foreign, and published numerous scientific articles and reports.
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