From "A Sesqui-centennial History of Kentucky: A Narrative Historical Edition Preserving the Record of the Growth and Development of the Commonwealth, and Chronicling the Genealogical and Memorial Records of its Prominent Families and Personages," published 1945 by the "Historical Record Association", Hopkinsville, KY, page 1190.
This edition is now in the public domain and available on Google Books: https://archive.org/stream/sesquicentennial03wall#page/n7/mode/2up
"FRANCIS JACOBS CHEEK, JR., A.B., C.E., M.S.
"Prominent as a technological engineer with years of experience the man of this review has for twenty years been active as an instructor in his profession having been a member of the faculty of two of the nation's outstanding State Universities for the greater part of that period of time. He and his family have resided in Lexington for several years, being in residence at 1492 Tate's Creek Road, and are well woven into the social and church life of the Blue Grass.
"Francis Jacobs Cheek, Junior, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, August 25, 1893. His parents were Reverend Francis Jacobs Cheek and Elizabeth Ann (Ingels) Cheek. The father was a Presbyterian minister, well known in church circles in central Kentucky, who served the Second Presbyterian Church of Paris, Kentucky, as pastor for sixteen years. The mother was a native of Bourbon County, Kentucky, daughter of James W. Ingels, a prominent farmer and well known citizen, who pioneered and served the city of Paris as Commissioner of the Poor and Needy. The subject attended the public schools of Paris, Kentucky, for his initial education and when his father was called to the Covenant Presbyterian Church, of Louisville, Kentucky, he entered the Louisville Male High School in that city.
"When the father, as Synodical Superintendent for the State of Kentucky, moved to Danville, Kentucky, Francis Cheek entered Centre College there and graduated with an A.B. degree in 1914. In 1915 he taught in the Centre College Preparatory Academy. Following a year in the life insurance field he entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, New York. There he received his Civil Engineering degree in 1918. He entered the Engineer Officers Training School during the First World War. In 1919 he formed a connection with the Turner Construction Company, structural engineers, and worked with this concern for three years, serving also as field engineer at Fort Knox, Kentucky, during the planning and later construction of that great gold depository and army post. Leaving the Turner Construction Company in 1923 he entered on a fourteen-year period of teaching as a member of the faculty at Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kansas, filling the position of Associate Professor of Construction and Hydraulic Engineering. In 1932 and 1933 he was granted a sabbatical leave from his work at Manhattan to take his Master's degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He came to the University of Kentucky in 1937 and has been a member of the faculty since that time as Professor of Sanitary and Hydraulic Engineering.
"In college fraternal circles Professor Cheek is a member of Sigma Chi, Alpha Rho Chi, Sigma Xi and holds membership in the organizations of his profession, in the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, in the Society of Professional Engineers, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Kentucky. He is given prominent listing in "Who's Who in Engineering" and in "American Men of Science." In Kentucky he is a member of the State Board of Examiners for Water Plant Operators and the Kentucky State Board of Examiners for Sanitary Engineers.
"Francis Jacobs Cheek, Jr., married Martha A. Butt, of Franklin, Kentucky, and they are the parents of (living person's details removed). The Cheek family are affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and active in the affairs of the congregation where they worship in Lexington. Professor and Mrs. Cheek hold an enviable place in the social and professional life of Lexington where they have made many friends and where the subject is admired for his intellectual attainments and the modern ideas and aggressive methods he brings to scientific teaching."
This edition is now in the public domain and available on Google Books: https://archive.org/stream/sesquicentennial03wall#page/n7/mode/2up
"FRANCIS JACOBS CHEEK, JR., A.B., C.E., M.S.
"Prominent as a technological engineer with years of experience the man of this review has for twenty years been active as an instructor in his profession having been a member of the faculty of two of the nation's outstanding State Universities for the greater part of that period of time. He and his family have resided in Lexington for several years, being in residence at 1492 Tate's Creek Road, and are well woven into the social and church life of the Blue Grass.
"Francis Jacobs Cheek, Junior, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, August 25, 1893. His parents were Reverend Francis Jacobs Cheek and Elizabeth Ann (Ingels) Cheek. The father was a Presbyterian minister, well known in church circles in central Kentucky, who served the Second Presbyterian Church of Paris, Kentucky, as pastor for sixteen years. The mother was a native of Bourbon County, Kentucky, daughter of James W. Ingels, a prominent farmer and well known citizen, who pioneered and served the city of Paris as Commissioner of the Poor and Needy. The subject attended the public schools of Paris, Kentucky, for his initial education and when his father was called to the Covenant Presbyterian Church, of Louisville, Kentucky, he entered the Louisville Male High School in that city.
"When the father, as Synodical Superintendent for the State of Kentucky, moved to Danville, Kentucky, Francis Cheek entered Centre College there and graduated with an A.B. degree in 1914. In 1915 he taught in the Centre College Preparatory Academy. Following a year in the life insurance field he entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, New York. There he received his Civil Engineering degree in 1918. He entered the Engineer Officers Training School during the First World War. In 1919 he formed a connection with the Turner Construction Company, structural engineers, and worked with this concern for three years, serving also as field engineer at Fort Knox, Kentucky, during the planning and later construction of that great gold depository and army post. Leaving the Turner Construction Company in 1923 he entered on a fourteen-year period of teaching as a member of the faculty at Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kansas, filling the position of Associate Professor of Construction and Hydraulic Engineering. In 1932 and 1933 he was granted a sabbatical leave from his work at Manhattan to take his Master's degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He came to the University of Kentucky in 1937 and has been a member of the faculty since that time as Professor of Sanitary and Hydraulic Engineering.
"In college fraternal circles Professor Cheek is a member of Sigma Chi, Alpha Rho Chi, Sigma Xi and holds membership in the organizations of his profession, in the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, in the Society of Professional Engineers, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Kentucky. He is given prominent listing in "Who's Who in Engineering" and in "American Men of Science." In Kentucky he is a member of the State Board of Examiners for Water Plant Operators and the Kentucky State Board of Examiners for Sanitary Engineers.
"Francis Jacobs Cheek, Jr., married Martha A. Butt, of Franklin, Kentucky, and they are the parents of (living person's details removed). The Cheek family are affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and active in the affairs of the congregation where they worship in Lexington. Professor and Mrs. Cheek hold an enviable place in the social and professional life of Lexington where they have made many friends and where the subject is admired for his intellectual attainments and the modern ideas and aggressive methods he brings to scientific teaching."
From "A Sesqui-centennial History of Kentucky: A Narrative Historical Edition Preserving the Record of the Growth and Development of the Commonwealth, and Chronicling the Genealogical and Memorial Records of its Prominent Families and Personages," published 1945 by the "Historical Record Association", Hopkinsville, KY, page 1190.
This edition is now in the public domain and available on Google Books: https://archive.org/stream/sesquicentennial03wall#page/n7/mode/2up
"FRANCIS JACOBS CHEEK, JR., A.B., C.E., M.S.
"Prominent as a technological engineer with years of experience the man of this review has for twenty years been active as an instructor in his profession having been a member of the faculty of two of the nation's outstanding State Universities for the greater part of that period of time. He and his family have resided in Lexington for several years, being in residence at 1492 Tate's Creek Road, and are well woven into the social and church life of the Blue Grass.
"Francis Jacobs Cheek, Junior, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, August 25, 1893. His parents were Reverend Francis Jacobs Cheek and Elizabeth Ann (Ingels) Cheek. The father was a Presbyterian minister, well known in church circles in central Kentucky, who served the Second Presbyterian Church of Paris, Kentucky, as pastor for sixteen years. The mother was a native of Bourbon County, Kentucky, daughter of James W. Ingels, a prominent farmer and well known citizen, who pioneered and served the city of Paris as Commissioner of the Poor and Needy. The subject attended the public schools of Paris, Kentucky, for his initial education and when his father was called to the Covenant Presbyterian Church, of Louisville, Kentucky, he entered the Louisville Male High School in that city.
"When the father, as Synodical Superintendent for the State of Kentucky, moved to Danville, Kentucky, Francis Cheek entered Centre College there and graduated with an A.B. degree in 1914. In 1915 he taught in the Centre College Preparatory Academy. Following a year in the life insurance field he entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, New York. There he received his Civil Engineering degree in 1918. He entered the Engineer Officers Training School during the First World War. In 1919 he formed a connection with the Turner Construction Company, structural engineers, and worked with this concern for three years, serving also as field engineer at Fort Knox, Kentucky, during the planning and later construction of that great gold depository and army post. Leaving the Turner Construction Company in 1923 he entered on a fourteen-year period of teaching as a member of the faculty at Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kansas, filling the position of Associate Professor of Construction and Hydraulic Engineering. In 1932 and 1933 he was granted a sabbatical leave from his work at Manhattan to take his Master's degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He came to the University of Kentucky in 1937 and has been a member of the faculty since that time as Professor of Sanitary and Hydraulic Engineering.
"In college fraternal circles Professor Cheek is a member of Sigma Chi, Alpha Rho Chi, Sigma Xi and holds membership in the organizations of his profession, in the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, in the Society of Professional Engineers, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Kentucky. He is given prominent listing in "Who's Who in Engineering" and in "American Men of Science." In Kentucky he is a member of the State Board of Examiners for Water Plant Operators and the Kentucky State Board of Examiners for Sanitary Engineers.
"Francis Jacobs Cheek, Jr., married Martha A. Butt, of Franklin, Kentucky, and they are the parents of (living person's details removed). The Cheek family are affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and active in the affairs of the congregation where they worship in Lexington. Professor and Mrs. Cheek hold an enviable place in the social and professional life of Lexington where they have made many friends and where the subject is admired for his intellectual attainments and the modern ideas and aggressive methods he brings to scientific teaching."
This edition is now in the public domain and available on Google Books: https://archive.org/stream/sesquicentennial03wall#page/n7/mode/2up
"FRANCIS JACOBS CHEEK, JR., A.B., C.E., M.S.
"Prominent as a technological engineer with years of experience the man of this review has for twenty years been active as an instructor in his profession having been a member of the faculty of two of the nation's outstanding State Universities for the greater part of that period of time. He and his family have resided in Lexington for several years, being in residence at 1492 Tate's Creek Road, and are well woven into the social and church life of the Blue Grass.
"Francis Jacobs Cheek, Junior, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, August 25, 1893. His parents were Reverend Francis Jacobs Cheek and Elizabeth Ann (Ingels) Cheek. The father was a Presbyterian minister, well known in church circles in central Kentucky, who served the Second Presbyterian Church of Paris, Kentucky, as pastor for sixteen years. The mother was a native of Bourbon County, Kentucky, daughter of James W. Ingels, a prominent farmer and well known citizen, who pioneered and served the city of Paris as Commissioner of the Poor and Needy. The subject attended the public schools of Paris, Kentucky, for his initial education and when his father was called to the Covenant Presbyterian Church, of Louisville, Kentucky, he entered the Louisville Male High School in that city.
"When the father, as Synodical Superintendent for the State of Kentucky, moved to Danville, Kentucky, Francis Cheek entered Centre College there and graduated with an A.B. degree in 1914. In 1915 he taught in the Centre College Preparatory Academy. Following a year in the life insurance field he entered Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, at Troy, New York. There he received his Civil Engineering degree in 1918. He entered the Engineer Officers Training School during the First World War. In 1919 he formed a connection with the Turner Construction Company, structural engineers, and worked with this concern for three years, serving also as field engineer at Fort Knox, Kentucky, during the planning and later construction of that great gold depository and army post. Leaving the Turner Construction Company in 1923 he entered on a fourteen-year period of teaching as a member of the faculty at Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kansas, filling the position of Associate Professor of Construction and Hydraulic Engineering. In 1932 and 1933 he was granted a sabbatical leave from his work at Manhattan to take his Master's degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He came to the University of Kentucky in 1937 and has been a member of the faculty since that time as Professor of Sanitary and Hydraulic Engineering.
"In college fraternal circles Professor Cheek is a member of Sigma Chi, Alpha Rho Chi, Sigma Xi and holds membership in the organizations of his profession, in the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, in the Society of Professional Engineers, and is a Registered Professional Engineer in Kentucky. He is given prominent listing in "Who's Who in Engineering" and in "American Men of Science." In Kentucky he is a member of the State Board of Examiners for Water Plant Operators and the Kentucky State Board of Examiners for Sanitary Engineers.
"Francis Jacobs Cheek, Jr., married Martha A. Butt, of Franklin, Kentucky, and they are the parents of (living person's details removed). The Cheek family are affiliated with the Presbyterian Church and active in the affairs of the congregation where they worship in Lexington. Professor and Mrs. Cheek hold an enviable place in the social and professional life of Lexington where they have made many friends and where the subject is admired for his intellectual attainments and the modern ideas and aggressive methods he brings to scientific teaching."
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