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Civil engineer; president, Indiana Engineering and Construction Company
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Offutt graduated in civil engineering from Pennsylvania State College in 1905, worked in Pittsburgh and in the Grand Rapids office of the chief engineer of the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, then came to Fort Wayne as assistant engineer of maintenance of way for the road's Southern division for four years. After four years as vice-president of the Beers-Offutt Construction Company of Fort Wayne, he organized the Indiana Engineering and Construction Company in February 1914 and served as its president and treasurer. The company employed some two hundred people, among them five civil and mechanical engineers, and its Fort Wayne work included the Gates and Gauntt buildings, the Boys' Cathedral School, three buildings of the General Electric plant, the Fort Wayne Transfer Company barn, and seven bridges on the Fort Wayne and Northern Indiana Railway.
Sources: Griswold, Pictorial History, Vol. II (1917), biographical sketch, read first-hand. No second source reached for this profile.