 He became a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers February 15, 1871, and was President of the Society for the year ending January 19, 1887, thus receiving from both organizations the highest honors within their power to bestow.His death occurred June 20, 1898, at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he stopped on his way home from a meeting of the Mississippi River Commission to visit Mr Godfrey Stengel, a lifelong friend who had come with him on the same ship to America forty nine years before.He died very suddenly of acute heart failure while walking to Highland park in company with Mr and Mrs Stengel.