Asa White Kenney Billings

Asa White Kenney Billings (February 8, 1876 – November 3, 1949) was an American hydroelectric engineer and a pioneer of the electrification of Brazil, where he spent nearly all of the last 27 years of his life.

[1] He married Edna Peabody in New York City on December 17, 1900, and their son Asa White Kenney Billings Jr. was born on September 20, 1901.

Later in life he was married to Josephine J. Billings, and other children included Mary Warner and John J.

Upon the entry of the United States into World War I, he joined the civil engineering corps of the US Navy, and for his services received the Navy Cross for "supervision of construction work of naval air stations in Europe",[3] and the chevalier rank of the Légion d'honneur.

In 1936, he was invited to give a lecture to the Institution of Civil Engineers in London on "Water-Power in Brazil", which was published and used for teaching purposes.