Ferdinand W. Ambos, at right, and fellow sailor aboard ship in 1912.
"Ferd worked at a number of jobs away from hone including ranch work, carrying the Burns mail on horseback for Charles McCoy. Ferd served four years in the U. S. Navy. He also studied to be a civil engineer and was one of the engineers on the preliminary survey of the Dotsero Cutoff in 1924. After that job was completed he did engineering work for several railroads and was an engineer for the Bureau of Public Roads for 16 years. He retired in 1954 and lived in Denver many years. He is now living in Glenwood Springs. He never married." -- McCoy Memoirs p.242
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
