Dewitt Clinton Haskin

Col. Dewitt Clinton Haskin (circa 1824 – July 17, 1900) was an American engineer who developed the initial methods for construction of the first tunnels under the Hudson River between New Jersey and Manhattan.

[1] For the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad project, he founded the Hudson Tunnel Company in 1873, and began construction in 1874 by digging a shaft in Jersey City, New Jersey.

[2] He had patented a compressed air method for reducing cave-ins, but in 1880, 20 workers were killed in a blowout.

Another blowout in 1881 and a gradual loss of funding halted the project in 1887.

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