. L. Lum, civil engineer, is a native of Newark, N. J., where he was reared and educated as an engineer. His first work was in the office of the city engineer, at Newark. He soon entered upon railroad work and assisted in surveys on the Patterson and West Jersey railroads. He was afterwards division engineer on the Dubuque and Minnesota road, and located the Northern Pacific through the Red River valley. Later, he was an assistant engineer on the C. & N. W. road, and then, returning east, was constructing engineer in the building of the shops and round houses of the Pennsylvania road at Hackensack Meadows. Mr. Lum also built the western division of the Chesapeake and Ohio road and an extension of the Kentucky Central, through eastern Kentucky. He was chief engineer on these roads for several years. He was, for a time, in government employ as assistant engineer at the head waters of the Mississippi river, and in Tennessee, Louisiana and South Carolina. More recently he has turned his attention to hydraulic work, having been employed by the Citizens' Water Company of Denver, and the Anaheim Water Company. Elected city engineer of Redlands in 1896 he recently resigned the position to take charge of the surveys and other work for the Southern California Power Company, in the Santa Ana cañon, upon which he is now engaged. Mrs. Lum was Miss Marietta F. Hawley, a native of Hawleyville, Conn.

(Source: Illustrated Redlands, 1897, p. 29.)