Frank Soule, USMA 1866
Soule resigned in 1870 and was appointed to a professorship of mathematics, and in 1872 to the chair of engineering, at the University of California (founded 1868).
He induced his classmate Hiero B. Herr to come to Berkeley.
Publications:
The Annals Of San Francisco by Frank Soule, John H. Gihon, M.D. & James Nisbet, D. Appleton & Co. San Francisco, 1855.
References:
Moore, Calvin C., Mathematics at Berkeley: a history, Wellesley, Mass. : AK Peters, c2007.
Streett, William B., "Military enterprise and engineering education: The American experience," 19 page manuscript (I have a copy).