Robert Brewster Stanton

Robert Brewster Stanton (5 August 1846, Woodville, Mississippi – 23 February 1922, New Canaan, Connecticut) was a United States civil and mining engineer.

[5] Beginning in 1884, he started a private practice as a consulting civil and mining engineer.

Stanton's projects involving railroads included chief engineer for a photographic survey through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River for the Denver, Colorado Canyon and Pacific Railroad Company in 1889-90.

[6] Stanton also did special work on the British Columbia landslides for the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1896, examination and appraisal of the value of railroads in the states of Michigan, Kansas and Washington in 1906 and 1910, location of railroad line from Chicago to Saint Louis in 1902, and from Butte, Montana, to Boise, Idaho, 1905.

He was engineer and general manager for the Flint Idaho Mining Company 1886-88.