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The Progress Citizen (Owens Valley, CA)
Friday, July 26, 1935

         Last rites for WILLIAM MULHOLLAND, veteran Los Angeles
       engineer and builder of the Owens Valley aqueduct, were
       held at the Little Church of the Flowers, Forest Lawn
       Memorial Park, Los Angeles, yesterday at 2:30 p.m.
        
         MR. MULHOLLAND died in his sleep Monday at his home
       in Los Angeles at the age of 79 years.
       
         He was born in Belfast, Ireland, Sept. 11, 1855. While
       in his 'teens he shipped aboard a freighter bound for
       world ports, landing in America in 1872. In 1877, after
       five years of prospecting and working on boats on the
       Great Lakes and the Colorado river, he settled in Los
       Angeles, then a city of 10,000.
       
         He was employed by the City Water Co., first as zan-
       jero and later rising to general superintendent of the
       water system in 1866. In that year the City took over
       the company and MULHOLLAND became chief engineer of the
       municipal system.
       
         Under MULHOLLAND'S direction, the Los Angeles aque-
       duct was conceived, was started in 1908, finished in
       1913 at a cost of approximately $24,500.00.
       
         In Dec. 1928, he turned in his resignation to the
       Board of Water and Power commissioners, after 50 years
       of continuous service.
       
         Several valley and Mono Basin project staff members
       of the department of water and power attended yester-
       day's funeral services.
       
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      [Transcriber's Note: His resignation came 2 years after
      the disasterous collapse of the St. Francis Dam which
      was designed and constructed under his direction.]