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Don Emilio Quisumbing y Argüelles

Filipino: Emilio Argüelles Quisumbing
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Death: December 07, 1976 (91)
Immediate Family:

Son of Honorato de los R. Quisumbing and Ciriaca F. Arguelles-Quisumbing
Husband of Maria Purificacion Corrales y Zamora de Quisumbing
Father of Private; Maria Paz C. Quisumbing; Consolacion C. Quisumbing; Emilio C. Quisumbing Jr.; Manuel Vicente C. Quisumbing and 2 others
Brother of Fernando A. Quisumbing; Francisco Quisumbing; Carlos A. Quisumbing; Manuel Arguelles Quisumbing; Eduardo Quisumbing and 1 other

Occupation: Civil engineer
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About Emilio Quisumbing

Emilio Quisumbing was a Filipino civil engineer. He was one of the 1903 pensionados sent by the US colonial government to the US for graduate / post-graduate degrees. He would earn a degree in civil engineering from Cornell University. He started work in 1908 at the US colonial government's Department of Engineering and Public Works (in Manila) as a 'chief computer' +; would be surveyor by 1912 in the same department; and would be listed as assistant engineer by 1924 with the Department of Water Supply and Sewers. By 1911, he was a professor under the UST's College of Science and Engineering.

+ yes, the job title did exist at that time. During that period, human computers managed mathematical tables such as trigonometric and logarithmic tables. These tables were relied on by navigators and engineers.

Men of the Philippines: A Biographical Record of Men of Substantial Achievement in the Philippine Islands, Volume 1 (1931, p. 252-253)

Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 2037)

Who's Who in the Philippines: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men of the Philippines, Volume II 1940-1941 (1940), by Franz J. Weissblatt (p. 148, Image 196)

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Emilio Quisumbing's Timeline

1885
April 28, 1885
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
1912
January 24, 1912
1913
May 15, 1913
1915
December 9, 1915
1918
January 18, 1918
1922
October 21, 1922
1925
August 7, 1925
1976
December 7, 1976
Age 91