Henry Sturgis Drinker

Henry Sturgis Drinker (8 November 1850 – 27 July 1937) was an American mechanical engineer, lawyer, author, and the fifth president of Lehigh University.

[4] Hired by the Lehigh Valley Railroad, the following year he was put in charge of construction of a two-mile tunnel through New Jersey's Musconetcong Mountains.

[4] Coal baron and former LVRR president Asa Packer founded Lehigh University as a tuition-free engineering school for young men.

Drinker's administration Lehigh University has had a marked expansion in its plant, including the erection of two dormitories, a college dining hall, a student club house, a mining engineering laboratory, a testing engineering laboratory, a new gymnasium and field house, and a complete renovation of the athletic field, including the erection of a concrete stadium.

[2] Unable to cope, their French father left the girls in Philadelphia with his wife's widowed mother, Mrs. John Wheeler Leavitt, and returned to France.

Cecilia displayed artistic talent as a teen, and took private lessons with the art teacher at her finishing school; Catherine Drinker (Henry's older sister).

For the first year of their marriage, Henry and Etta Drinker lived with her grandmother Leavitt (and sister Cecilia) in a West Philadelphia house at 4305 Spruce Street.

[12] Between 1880 and 1893, the couple and their growing family lived at various West Philadelphia addresses, before building a large suburban house on the campus of Haverford College.

[citation needed] In retirement, Henry and Etta Drinker lived in a suburban house in Merion Station, just outside Philadelphia.