CHAPTER XXIX.
SOME FORMER RESIDENTS OF SHELBY COUNTY AND THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS. (CONT'D)
RAY F. WEIRICK.
Ray Floyd Weirick, after graduation from the Harlan high school. entered the Iowa State College at Ames, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Science, later entering Harvard University, taking a specially arranged course in the post-graduate school of landscape architecture. In the spring of 1914 he was granted the professional degree of Civil Engineer by the Iowa State College. In 1911 he made a tour of five and one-half months under commissions of the governor of the state and mayor of Des Moines, through practically all of Europe, to investigate the matter of city planning and landscape architecture. Previous to entering college, Mr. Weirick spent most of his time in nurseries, part of the time with W. M. Bomberger, of Harlan, and also in engineering service fur about a half dozen different railways. Leaving college, he was employed for a time in the office of the park commission of Kansas City, Missouri. Later he was private secretary to Ira G. Hedrick, an eminent consulting engineer of Kansas City. One winter he spent traveling through the South, making investigations along the line of his work. For four years he served the city of Des Moines as consulting landscape architect, at the same time maintaining a private practice covering the entire state. At present he is engaged exclusively in private practice with offices in the Citizens National Bank building of Des Moines, Iowa.
Transcribed by Cheryl Siebrass, October, 2023 from the Past and Present of Shelby County, Iowa, by Edward S. White, P.A., LL. B.,Volume 1, Indianapolis: B. F. Bowen & Co., 1915, pg. 557-558.
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