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1 General Electric Company GE 1892 Charles A. Coffin 1913 GE

2 GE 20 GE

3 directors officers GE Charles P. Steinmetz GE Board of Directors Executive Committee President

4 GE GE Edison General Electric Co. Thomson-Houston Electric Co. Thomas A. Edison Frank J. Sprague Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Co. Elihu Thomson Edwin J. Houston American Electric Co Charles A. Coffin 1883 General Manager GE, The Source Book : Facts and Figures and Some Thoughts about General Electric, c1952, Section E, p GE Arthur A. Bright, Jr.

5 GE EDISON COMPANIES Pope. Edison & Co. Edison Electric Light Co., Menlo Park, N.J. Edison Lamp Co., Harrison, N.J. Bergmann & Company, New York City Edison Machine Works, New York Edison Electric Tube Company, Brooklyn Edison Company for Isolated Lighting, New York Edison Shafting Co. New York City United Edison Mfg. Co., Schenectady Edison General Electric, 1890 Sprague Elec. Railway Motor Co., N.Y. THOMSON - HOUSTON COMPANIES GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY Telegraph Supply Co. Brush Electrnic Company Cleveland, Ohio Van De Poele Elec. Railway Company Chicago Excelsior Electric Company American Electric Works, New Britain, Conn. Thomson - Houston Co. Lynn, Mass. Schuyler Electric Co. Bentley - Knight Electric Railway Company, Cleveland Thomson - Houston International Elec. co Hall of Electrical History, Schenectady Museum, The General Electric Story: A Heritage of Innovation (Schenectady, New York : Schenectady Museum Association, 2000), p. 9.

6 GE GE 1893 GE J.P. Morgan GE The Electric-Lamp Industry : Technological Change and Economic Development from (New York : Macmillan, 1949) ; John T. Broderick, Forty Years with General Electric (Albany, NY : Fort Orange Press, 1929) ; John W. Hammond, Men and Volts : The Story of General Electric (NY : Lippincott, 1941) ; Matthew Josephson, Edison (New York : McGraw-Hill, 1959) ; Harold C. Passer, The Electrical Manufacturers, (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1953) ; Harvard Business School, General Electric Company : Origins and Early Development, case material : , BH 139, 1966 ; GE 1970 ;

7 ,247,520 n.a. n.a. 12,540,395 12,730,058 12,540,994 12,396,093 15,679,430 22,379,463 28,783,275 32,338,036 36,685,598 41,699,617 39,231,328 43,146,902 60,071,883 70,977,168 44,540,676 51,656,631 71,478,558 70,383,854 89,182,185 10,000 n.a. n.a. 6,000 n.a. n.a. 8,000 11,000 12,000 15,000 18,000 17,000 18,000 22,500 28,000 20,000 23,000 23,300 26,300 30,000 33,500 32,000 36,200 n.a. 41,300 n.a General Electric Co., Professional Management in General Electric, Book One : General Electric s Growth (General Electric Company, 1953) p. 6. Annual Report

8 Drexel, Morgan & Co. J.P. Morgan Co. Lee, Higginson & Co. Treasurer General Auditor 4 GE ; 1893 GE Hammond Historical File, Part L, p. 1176

9 Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co Law Department Patent Department Chief Consulting Engineer 1900 fundamental research GE General Electric Research Laboratory 6 Schenectady Lynn Harrison Technical Director Edwin W. Rice Jr. 6 GE GE AT&T

10 7 Lighting Department Railway Department Power Department Power & Mining Department Supply Department Main Office District Offices sales-offices 7 Passer, Harold C., Development of Large-Scale Organization : Electrical Manufacturing around 1900, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 12, 1952, pp Passer, Development of Large- Scale Organization

11 sub-companies Board of Directors Chairman Executive Committee Sales Committee Credit & Collection Committee Manufacturing Committee 26 Local Companies Committee General Engineering Committee 11 IV V Joseph P. Ord 9 Second Annual Report (1893), pp By-Laws of the General Electric Company. 11 Hammond (Roger) Papers, Box 6 Sales Committee Minutes

12 Benjamin F. Peach, Jr. E.I. Garfield Henry W. Darling Arthur S. Beves Henry A. Niles Credit Department Collection Department GE S. Danna Greene officers 15 General Counsel 12 Minutes of Executive Committee Board of Directors Minutes of the General Electric Company Executive Committee August 8, 1893, pp Hammond Historical File, Vol. H. p. 234 ; Eighth Annual Report (1899), p Hammond, Men and Volts, p By-Laws

13 Board of Directors Executive Committee Sales Committee Manufacturing Committee Credit & Collection Committee President Local Companies Committee General Engineering Committee First Vice President Second Vice President Technical Director General Counsel Secretary Selling Department Treasurer Assistant Treasure Second Assistant Treasurer General Auditor Manufacturing and Electrical Department Law Department Lighting Department Collection Department Treasury Department Credit Department Accounting Department Schenectady Works Railway Department Lynn Works Power Department Supply Department Harrison Works GE Assistant Secretrary

14 Secretary Assistant Secretary Assistant Treasurer Comptroller Eugene Griffin Oliver Ames & Sons 16 By-Laws of the General Electric Company.

15 Ames, F. Lanthrop Coffin, Charles A. Coolidge, T. Jefferson, Jr. Coster, Charles H. Edison, Thomas A. Griffin, Eugene Hastings, Frank S. Higginson, Henry L. Mills, Darius O. Morgan, J. Pierpont (Easton, MA) (Somerset, ME) (Boston, MA) (Newport, RI) (Milan, OH) (Ellsworth, ME) (Mendham, N J) (New York, NY) (North Salem, NY) (Hartford, CT) Harvard : AB? (1854) ttreasurer, Oliver Ames & Sons Bloomfield Academy president, GE Harvard : AB (1884) president, Old Colony Trust Co private schools Drexel, Morgan and Co received some instruction from his mother director, EGE Military Academy (1875) first vice president, GE private schools director, EGE Harvard 1851 Lee, Higginson & Co North Salem Academy ; Mt. Pleasant Academy financier in New York English High Sch., Boston ; student, University of Göttingen Drexel, Morgan and Co

16 Twombly, H. McKown (Boston, MA) Ames, Oliver (North Easton, MA) Abbott, Gordon (Boston, MA) Paine, Robert T., 2d (New Bedford, MA) Gardner, George P (Boston, MA) Peabody, George F (Columbus, GA) Ord, Joseph P (Pasadena, CA) Steele, Charles (Baltimore, MD) Fish, Frederick P (Taunton, MA) Crane, W. Murray (Dalton, MA) Harvard : AB (1871) financier in New York Harvard : AB (1886) president, First National Bank of Easton Harvard : AB (1884) vice president, Old Colony Trust Co Harvard : AB (1882) ; Harvard Low School : LLB (1884) lawyer Harvard : AB (1877) president and trustee, Provident Institution for Savings? private schools partner of Spencer Trask & Co Yale (1873) second vice president, GE University of Virginia. : AM (1878) ; Columbia : LLB (1880) J. P. Morgan Co Harvrd : AB (1875) ; Harvard Law School : LLB (1876) president, AT & T Williston Seminary governer of MA ( )

17 Rice, Edwin W., Jr (La Crosse, WI) Boys Central High School : AB (1880) third vice president, GE Henderson, T. K Schoonmaker, S. L (Pittsburgh, PA) director, American Locomotive Co Perry, Marsden J (Rehoboth, MA) public school and private instructors director, Union Trust Co Sunny, Bernard E (Brooklyn, NY) public schools president, Illinois Bell Telephone Co Hamilton, Christie P (Hanover, IN) ssecretary, GE New York office Westover, Myron F (Vinton, IA) State University of Iowa, College of Law : LLB (1882) secretary, GE

18 Frederick L. Ames 17 Old Colony Trust Co. T. Jefferson Coolidge, Jr. 18 Lee, Higginson & Co. Henry L. Higginson 19 Oliver Ames 20 C. H. Coster Frank S. Hastings 22 Bank of California Darius O. Mills 23 William H. Vanderbilt H. McKown Twombly National Cyclopedia of American Biography (Clifton, NJ : J. T. White), Vol. 14 NatCAB NatCAB 27 ; Who Was Who in America (Chicago : Marquis Who s Who) Vol. 1 WhAm NatCAB 14 ; WhAm 1 ; Dictionary of American Biography, edited by Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone (New York : Scribner), Vol GE, General Electric : Brief Biographies of Directors, April 28, 1927, p The Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography, pp ; The Railway Age, Mar 23, 1900, Vol. 29, No. 12, p New York Times, Mar 18, 1900, p NatCAB 18 ; WhAm NatCAB 1 ; NatCAB 18 ; WhAm 1 ; Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 13.

19 Gordon Abbott 25 Robert T. Paine, 2d George P. Gardner Spencer Trask & Co. George F. Peabody GE, Charles Steele GE AT T Frederick P. Fish 1903 W. Murray Crane T. K. Henderson NatCAB 30 ; WhAm NatCAB 28 ; WhAm 1 ; GE, General Electric : Brief Biographies of Directors, pp NatCAB 32 ; WhAm 2 ; GE, General Electric : Brief Biographies of Directors, pp WhAm 1 ; GE, General Electric : Brief Biographies of Directors, p NatCAB15 ; NatCAB 27 ; WhAm 1 ; Dictionary of American Biography, Vol NatCAB 14 ; WhAm NatCAB 13 ; WhAm 1 ; St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Oct 3, 1920, p. B10.

20 Union Trust Co. Marsde J. Perry 31 American Locomotive Co. S. L. Schoonmaker GE Illinois Bell Telephone Co. Bernard E. Sunny 1910 GE Christie P. Hamilton 1911 Myron F. Westover Monogram, Vol. 12, No. 8, May 1935, p. 15 ; WhAm 1 ; GE, General Electric : Brief Biographies of Directors, p New York Times, Aug 19, 1918, p. 9.

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22 GE Samuel Insull Edward Clark W. F. Pope Commercial and Financial Chronicle (New York : W. B. Dana), 1892, p. 10 ; Board of Directors Minutes of the General Electric Company Minutes of Board, May 4, Minutes of Board, July 8, 1892, p Minutes of Board, May 12, 1893, p Minutes of Board, April 21, 1893, p Minutes of Executive Committee, August 8, Minutes of Board, September 2, 1893, p. 28.

23 Carl G. Smedberg Herman P. Schuyler Minutes of Board, May 22, 1894, p Minutes of Board, June 12, 1895, p

24 I. S. Keeler Anson W. Burchard Assistant to President Jesse R. Lovejoy John Riley Samuel L. Whitestone 1907 Robert E. Steele J. Frank Zoller 1911 Robert S. Murray

25 Coffin, Charles A. Sunny, Bernard E. Garfield, Ellery I Somerset, ME (Brooklyn, N Y) (Langdon, NH) Bloomfield Academy public schools public schools GE GE GE GE GE engaged in shoe manufacturing 1882 (38) 1882 general manager ; president TH) president chairman director 1922 employed as a packer, office boy, plumber s helper, and telegraph messenger and operator operator, Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Co manager of Chicago office superintendent, Chicago Telephone Co president, Chicago Arc Light and Power Co (35) 1891 westernmanager TH western manager vice president Director 1908 president, Illinois Bell Telephone Co. clerk for brother s hardware trade engaged in the drug business city controller of Detroit 1883 (46) 1883 secretary (TH) secretary 1894 manager of New England District, Fort Wayne Electric Cop.

26 Westover, Myron F (Vinton, IA) State University of Iowa College of Law : LL. B. (1882) 1882 admitted to Iowa bar 1888 (32) 1888 secretary to president (TH) assistant secretary secretary Keeler, I. S second asst. secretary assistant secretary director Zoller, J. Frank (Black Lake, NY) Albany Law School began the practice of law in Albany 1907 (29) second asst. secretary assistant secretary tax lawyer TH Thomson-Houston Electric Co

27 Charles F. Coffin Micajah P. Clough Coffin and Clough GE Atlantic & 41 NatCAB 20 ; WhAm 1 ; Dictionary of American Biography, Vol. 4 ; American National Biography (New York ; Tokyo : Oxford University Press, 1999), Vol. 5 ; GE, Men of General Electric (Corporate Administration Records , Box 23 file 9 1), pp

28 Pacific Telegraph Co Chicago Telephone Co. superintendent 1891 Chicago Arc Light and Power Co Western Manager GE Illinois Bell Telephone Co GE GE Monogram From Errand Boy to Executive clerk NatCAB 42 ; WhAm 2 ; Monogram, Vol. 6, No. 4, January 1929, pp , Vol. 20, No. 8, November, 1943, pp ; Schenectady Works News SWN, December 21, 1928, pp. 9, 10 ; New York Times, Oct 6, 1943, p Monogram, Vol. 6, No. 4, January 1929, p Street Railway Review, Vol. 12, No. 12, Dec 20, 1902, p. 887.

29 GE office Fort Wayne Electric Co. Boston Gas & Electric Light Co College of Law 1882 LL.B GE Electrical World, Vol. 10, No. 22, November 26, 1887, p Monogram, Vol. 4, No. 3, December 1926, p Fitchburg Sentinel, Jan 20, 1904, p. 6 ; Hammond, Men and Volts, p. 197 ; Electrical World, Vol. 24, No. 7, August 18, 1894, p. 162, Vol. 32, No. 16, October 15, 1898, p WhAm 1 ; Monogram, Vol. 1, No.1, October 1923, p.29 ; Syracuse Herald,

30 GE 1915 tax attorney 1916 New York State Tax Association New York State Commission on Tax Revision GE WGY October 22, 1933, p. 20 ; New York Times, October 22, 1933, p Wall Street Journal ; May 14, Income Tax SWN, January 23, 1925, p Monogram, Vol. 10, No. 1, October, 1932, p. 15 ; New York Times, Sep 4, 1932.

31 GE GE Selling Department Oscar T. Crosby 1894 James R, McKee 52 Minutes of Executive Committee, August 8, 1893, p Historical Sketch of Sales Committee by T.A. McLoughlin, recording secretary of same (Hammond Historical File, Part L, pp ).

32 Griffin, Eugene Greene, S. Dana Crosby, Oscar T. McKee, James R (Ellsworth, ME) (Bristol, RI) (Ponchatoula, LA) (Madison. IN) Military Academy (1875) Naval Academy (1883) Military Academy (1882) public schools GE GE GE GE GE Army 1888 (33) 1888 general manager, Railway Dept. (TH) 1891 second vice president (TH) first vice president director 1907 Navy 1888 (28) 1888 general manager, Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Company 1889 manager, Lighting Dept. ( EGE) manager (Lighting Dept.) chairman of Local Company Committee general sales manager 1900 Army 1887 (26) 1887 chief engineer, Sprague Electric Railway & Motor Company 1889 chief electrical engineer, Electro-Automatic Transit Co 1890 manager of Southern District (EGE) manager (Railway Dept.) 1894 White Crosby Co. Indiana-polis Union Stock Yards McKee & Co. boot 1889 (32) 1889 joined TH 1891 president, Thomson- Van Depoele Electric manager (Power Dept.) manager (Pow- 1913

33 Lovejoy, Jesse R. Mazenet, Dámaso Clark, William J (Columbus, OH) (Santa Marta, Republic of Columbia (Derby, CT) Ohio State University: BS (1884) military school left high school at age 14 and shoe jobbing house 1884 (21) Hoadley & Co (37) 1869 clerk in the local post office Merritt, Clark & Son, holesale and retail coal firm held the 1888 (33) Mining Co.; manager, Thomson-Houston Motor Co apprentice(th) 1887 construction superintendent (TH) 1889 Thomson-Houston International Electric Company 1888 general agent, Railway Dept. (TH) er& Mining Dept.) chairman of Sales Committee manager (Supply Dept.) manager (Lighting, Railway and- Supply Dept.) general sales manger first vice president vice president honorary vice president Director Foreign Dept manager (Foreign Dept.) managing director of Mexican General Electric Co Railway Dept. at New York Office manager of Cinsinnaty Office manager (Railway Dept.) manager (For

34 Haskins, Caryl D. Barry, John G. Bullen, Dana R (Waltham, MA) (Boston, MA) (Wakefield, MA) Allison Towers and Roslyndale schools ; tuition system of University of London Boston High School Brown University (1886): AM office of postmaster at Birmingham, CT 1886 began his street railway career by securing a charter to build a street railway Haskins, Davis & Co. with S. Z. de Ferranti 1889 (22) 1886 (18) 1887 (23) 1889 in charge of Electric Meter Dept. (TH) 1886 Test Course (TH) 1890 Construction Dept. (TH) 1887 Construction Dept. (TH) 1888 Atlanta Office (TH) eign Dept.) manager (Traction Dept.) 1922 advisory manager head of the meter interests in charge of the instrument dept in charge of the switchboard dept manager (Lighting Dept.) Railway Dept assistant manager (Railway Dept.) manager (Railway Dept.) general sales manager vice president honorary vice president 28 Atlanta Office supply dept. at Philedelphia Office

35 Oudin, Maurice A. Bush, Arthur R (New York, NY) (Fall River, MA) (later) head of the supply dept. of Boston Office assistant manager (Supply Dept.) manager (Supply Ddept.) assistant vice president College of the City of New York: AB (1885); Princeton University: EE, MS (1891) 1891 (25) 1891 engineer (TH) active in power and mining interests acting district manager, Denver territory engineering work in Foreign Dept assistant manager (Foreign Dept.) assistant to Rice accociate manager (Foreign Dept.) manager (Foreign Dept.) vice president (International. GE) Naval Academy 1881) Navy 1884 (24) 1884 Edison Company for Isolated Lighting New England Wiring and Construction Co district engineer, New England District ( vice president

36 1889 district engineer, New England District (EGE) of Union Bag and Paper Co.) manager (Power& Mining Dept.) manager (Industrial Dept.) Stone, Charles W (Providence, RI) attended University of Kansas for three and one-half years 1894 Franklin Electric Co W. S. Hill Electric Co Hancock Equipment Co (26) drafting dept lighting engineering dept manager (Lighting Dept.) manager (Central Station Dept.) consulting engineer TH Thomson-Houston Electric Co.; EGH Edison General Electric Co. 1938

37 Foreign Department Dámaso Mazenet William J. Clark 1895 Selling Department Sales Department 1898 General Sales Manager Chairman of Local Companies Committee Caryl D. Haskins John G. 54 Second Annual Report (1893)

38 Barry Dana R. Bullen Maurice A. Oudin Traction Department Arthur R. Bush Charles W. Stone U.S. Military Academy at West Point Edward G. Waters GE GE 25 Monogram, Vol. 9, No. 4, January 1932, p. 19 ; Monogram, Vol. 27, No. 1, Jan-Feb 1950, p. 25

39 GE U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis GE NatCAB 2 ; WhAm1 ; GE, Men of General Electric, p. 17 ; New York Times, April 12, 1907, p Frank J. Sprague Street Railway Journal ; Vol. 16, No. 5, Feb 3, 1900, p. 141

40 Richmond Union Passenger Railway Electro-Automatic Transit Co. chief electrical engineer 1890 southern district GE 1994 James G. White White Crosby Co. Potomac Electric Power Co. Charles Lieb Hammond Historical File, Vol. H. pp ; Street Railway Journal ; Jan 13, 1900 ; p. 68 Electrical Age, Vol. 25, No. 2, Jan 13, 1900, p. 12 ; New York Times, Jan 9, 1900 ; Eighth Annual Report (1899), p. 8.

41 Indianapolis Union Stock Yards Edward McKee & Co Thomson-Van Depoele Electric Mining Co. Thomson-Houston Motor Co. 40 GE Builder of the Sales Organization 59 NatCAB 33 ; New York Times, Oct 22, 1942 ; Hammond Historical File, Part J, pp , , Part L, p ; Electrical World, Vol. 62, No. 10, September 6, 1913, p. 506.

42 B.S. Testing Department Thomson-Houston International Electric Co. GE GE Mexican General Electric Co. GE South African General Electric Co. 60 Monogram, Vol. 1, No. 1, October, 1923, p GE 2015

43 GE Australian General Electric Co. GE South American General Electric Co GE Mason s School military school shipping and commission business Hoadley & Co George W. Davenport GE GE S.C. Peck GE GE, Men of General Electric, p. 19 ; Monogram, Vol.1, No. 1, October, 1923, pp. 3 4 ; Monogram, Vol. 7, No. 11, August 1930, p. 19 SWN, October 12, 1945, p. 6 ; New York Times, Nov 2, 1945, p. 20.

44 GE 1910 GE Street Railway Journal street railway Merritt, Clark & Son Post Office Department post office inspector Van Depoele Electric Co. electric railway 63 IN MEMORIAM Mr. DÁMASO MAZENET, General Electric Review, Vol. 19, No. 5, May, 1916, pp ; New York Times, Nov 6, 1896, p. 3 ; Railway Age and Northwestern Railroader, Vol. 27, No. 4, Jan 27, 1899, p. 69 ; Historical Sketch of the Foreign Business, DIGEST, Vol. 2, No. 4., July-August 1922, p. 8.

45 General Agent 1892 GE GE office British Thomson-Houston Co. GE 1905 heavy steam road electrification work Traction Department Advisory Manager IN MEMORIAM, General Electric Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, February, 1923, pp GE 65 IN MEMORIAM, General Electric Review, Vol. 26, No. 2, February, 1923, pp ; Street Railway Journal ; Vol. 10, No. 6, Jun 1, 1894, p. 368 ; Hammond Historical File, Part L, pp ; Hartford Courant, Dec 14, 1922, p. 1 ; New-York Tribune, Dec 14, 1922, p. 13 ; Railway Age and Northwestern Rail-

46 1867 tuition system Haskins, Davis & Co. S. Z. de Ferranti GE 1893 Instrument Department 1900 Switchboard Department Construction Department GE roader, Vol. 27, No. 4, Jan 27, 1899, p NatCAB 28 ; WhAm 1.

47 American Electric Railway Association Executive Committee A.M GE, Men of General Electric, p. 5 : Monogram, Vol. 12, No. 11, August, 1935, p. 6 ; Monogram, Vol. 20, No 4, April, 1943, p. 4 ; SWN, July 12, 1935, p. 4, March 12, 1943 p. 1 ; PTM, Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 3.

48 1894 GE A.B E.E. M.S GE Standard Polyphase Apparatus and Systems Accociate Manager Monogram, Vol. 8, No. 11, August, 1931, p. 35 ; SWN, November 16, 1923, p. 11 ; New York Times, May 11, 1943, p E.A. Carolan 1901 Monogram, Vol. 2, No. 4, January, 1925, p. 24

49 International General Electric Co GE W. L. R. Emmet 1884 Edison Company for Isolated Lighting wireman Old Colony Steamship Co. Brockton Edison Co. New England Wiring and Construction Co. Edison United Manufacturing Co. isolated plants 70 Monogram, Vol. 7, No. 4, January, 1930, p. 36 Historical Sketch of the Foreign Business, DIGEST, p. 8 ; New York Times, Dec 5, 1929, p. 28 ; WhAm 1.

50 Sidney B. Paine 1889 calico-printing machines Edward Dutton Ward-Leonard system GE Pelzer Manufacturing Co. GE Union Bag and Paper Co. GE Industrial Department B. S. Havens, When G-E Motors First Sang Dixie, Monogram, Vol. 2, No. 10, July, 1925, pp Monogram, Vol. 3. No. 6, March, 1926, pp ; SWN, February 5, 1926, p. 19 ; Arthur R. Bush File Edison Pioneers Papers : Biographical Files, Edison Biographical Files ; Hammond Historical File, Part D, pp , Part L, pp

51 Franklin Electric Co. W S W. S. Hill Electric Co Hancock Equipment Co GE Drafting Department Lighting Engineering Department Central Station Department 1928 RCA RCA Photophone, Inc RCA Radio Corporation of America James G. Harbord 1928 thyratron 73 Monogram, Vol. 15, No. 6, March, 1938, p. 20

52 NatCAB 29 ; WhAm 1 ; Monogram, Vol. 5, No. 9, June, 1928, p. 27 ; Monogram, Vol. 15, No. 6, March, 1938, p. 20 ; SWN, May 18, 1928, p. 34, February 11, 1938, p. 4 ; New York Times, February 4, 1938, p. 21.

53 GE GE

54 GE GE GE Technical Director Manufacturing and Electrical Department

55 agreement 76 G.E. Athletic Association F.W. Webster Purchasing Agent General Electric Review, Vol. 17, No. 1, January, 1914, p. 81. Purchasing Agent 76 Broderick, Forty Years with General Electric, pp GE GE p Neil B. Reynolds, Notes for GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY HSTORY from SALES COMMITTEE MINUTES ( ) Reynolds Collection, Box 1, Folder 8 Sales Committee Owen D. Young Paper, Box Gerald Swope Paper, Box 29, Folder 201

56 John Kruesi George E. Emmons Francis R. Upton 1894 Walter C. Fish 1895 Manning K. Eyre Lamp Works, Harrison John W. Howell Manufacturing and Engineering Department George F. Morrison Cummings C. Chesney 1903 G. I. Stanley-G.I. Electric Manufacturing Co. 79 Pittsfield 1910 Francis C. Pratt Stanley Electric Manufacturing Co. General Incandescent Arc Light Co.

57 Assistant to Vice-President 1911 Erie Matthew Grisworld, Jr Fort Wayne Electric Works Fred S. Hunting 1902 Sprague Electric Co. D. C. Durland plant superintendent GE GE A.B.

58 Rice, Edwin W., Jr. Kruesi, John Emmons, George E (La Crosse, WI) (Speicher, Swizerland) (Westchester, CT) GE GE GE GE GE Boys Central High School : AB (1880) 1880 (18) 1880 assistant to Thomson 1883 TH plant superintendent (TH) technical director third vice President vice president president director honorary chairman 1935 apprenticed to a locksmith journeyman machinist in Ziirich 1870 Singer Sewing Machine Co (28) 1871 with Edison general manager (EGE) manager (Schenectady) chief mechanical engineer 1899 common education 1871 country town grocery store 1881 bookkeeper and cost clerk, American Electric Co 1881 entered a saddlery hardware 1886 (29) 1886 bookkeeper & cost clerk (TH, Lynn) factory auditor (TH, Lynn) factory auditor (Lynn) manager (Lynn) assistant manager (Schenectady) manager (Schenectady) 1924

59 Upton, Francis R. Fish, Walter C. Eyre, Manning K. Howell, John W (Peabody, MA) (Taunton, MA) c1869? (Florence, Italy) (New Brunswick NJ) Bowdoin College; Princeton University; Berlin University Harverd: AB (1887); MIT: EE (1887) Naval Academy (1880) College of the City of New York ( ); business chairman of Manufacturing Committee vice president 1879 (27) 1879 with Edison 1880 general manager (EGE, Hrrison) manager (Harrison) 1887 (23) 1887 with Thomson 1890 Bernstein Electric Company aassistant to manager (Rice), Lynn Works engineer at Lynn manager (Lynn) manufacturing engineer of International GE consulting engineer Navy assistant to selling manager (Harrison) 1895 superintendent (Harrison) assistant manager (Harrison) manager (Harrison) 1881 (24) 1881 Engineering Department of Menlo Park 1882 Edison Lamp Works Harrison) chief engineer (Harrison) advisory council of Research Labora Duncan & Eyre 1931

60 Morrison, George F. Chesney, Cummings C. Pratt, Francis C (Wellsville, NY) (Selinsgrove, PA) (Hartford, CT) Rutgers College ( ); Stevens Institute of Technology ( ) public schools Pennsylvania State College: BS (1885) Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University: Ph grocery house 1882 (15) 1888 with Stanley U. S. Electric Lighting Company 1890 (27) 1888 Pratt and Whitney Company 1906 (39) tory 1882 apprentice, Harrison Works foreman of experimental Lamp Testing Dept Instrument Standardization Dept. West Orange) general foreman (Harrison); superintendent (Harrison) manager (Harrison) vice president honorary vice president director 1890 incorporator of Stanley Electric Manufacturing Co vice president and chief engineer of Stanley Co manager (Pittsfield) chief engineer vice president; chairman of Manufacturing Committee honorary vice president assistant to vice president assistant to president

61 B. in mechanical engineering (1888) vice president chairman of Manufacturing Committee Griswold, Matthew, Jr (Erie, PA) Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University: ME (1890) Griswold Manufacturing Co (45) acting manager (Erie) manager (Erie) Hunting, Fred S (Templeton, MA) School of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1888) 1888 (21) 1888 draftsman, Fort Wayne Electric Light Co chief engineer of Constructing Dept.; transferred to commercial engineering sales manager and treasurer, Fort Wayne Electric Works manager (Fort Wayne) Durland, D. C. 1872? (Jamaica, NY) Princeton University: EE (1894) 1894 (22) assistant to the general manager, Sprague Electric Co manager (Sprague) president of Canadian GE TH Thomson-Houston Electric Co.; EGH Edison General Electric Co president, Robbins & Myers Co., president, Mitchell Co.

62 Singer Sewing Machine Co. Kruesi tube shop Menlo Park laboratories 1886 Scientific American 1888 GE GE, Men of General Electric, p. 27 ; NatCAB 26 ; WhAm 1.

63 an active, intelligent, and industrious worker, and a man of sterling character and high integrity. Honest John Frederick H. Churchill bookkeeper cost clerk factory auditor NatCAB 26 ; WhAm HS ; Scientific American, Mar 18, 1899 ; Vol. 80, No. 11 ; p Hartford Courant Romance Of Poor Connecticut Country Boy Who Rose To Industrial Leadership 84 Hammond, Men and Volts, pp George F. Stratton The Management of Production in a Great Factory, Engineering Magazine, Vol. 34, No. 4, January 1908, pp

64 Employees Securities Corporation Harrison Lamp Works 86 Hammond, Men and Volts, p John T. Broderick, George E. Emmons : Sketch of His Career and Character, Hammond Historical File, Vol. L, pp ; Monogram, Vol. 2, No. 3, December 1924, pp , Vol. 4, No. 4, January, 1927, pp , Vol. 15, No. 11, September, 1938, p. 16 ; SWN, November 21, 1924, pp. 1, 9, January 7, 1927, pp. 1, 7, July 22, 1938, pp. 1, 4 ; New York Times, Jul 4, 1938, p. 13 ; Hartford Courant, Jul 17, 1938, p Hammond,

65 Edison Electric Light Co. GE Edison Pioneers MIT 1887 EE A.B Thomson Electric Welding Co. Men and Volts, pp Francis R. Upton File, Edison Biographical Files ; Patriot (Harrisburg, PA), March 11, 1921 ; Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 1921, p. 14 ; Keating, Paul W. Lamps for a Brighter America, p. 34 ; Hammond Historical File, Part C, p New York Evening World, March 10, 1921 in Francis R. Upton File (Edison Biographical Files).

66 1890 Bernstein Electric Co River Bishop College School Monogram, Vol. 7, No. 1, October, 1929, p. 30 ; WhAm 4 ; Daily Boston Globe, Sep 9, 1929, p. 7.

67 GE 1894 assistant to selling manager Duncan & Eyre 92 National Lamp Co. Buckeye Electric Co , Economy of Electric Lighting by Incandescence 1882 Incandescent Electric Lights Electrical World, Vol. 23, No. 26, June 30, 1894, p. 883, Vol. 28, No. 1, July 4, 1896, p. 30, Vol.33, No. 7, February 18, 1899, p. 222, Vol. 45, No. 25, June 24, 1905, p

68 GE Advisory Council 1924 AIEE John W. Howell File (Edison Biographical Files) ; NatCAB 27 ; WhAm 1 ; SWN, February 20, 1925, p. 4 ; New York Times ; Dec 14, 1924, p. E5 ; New York Times, Jul 29, 1937, p New Jersey Business College in Newark

69 experimental lamp testing department Instrument Standardization Department GE Division GE B.S. Doylestown 95 GE, Men of General Electric, p. 21 ; Monogram, Vol. 5, No. 11, August 1928, pp. 3 4, Vol. 20, No. 8, November 1943, p. 23 ; SWN, October 17, 1930, p. 3, July 12, 1943, p. 3 ; The Book Of the INCAS, 1928 Incandescent Lamp Department ; New York Times, Oct 22, 1943, p. 17 ; DIGEST, Vol. 2, No. 4, July-August, 1922, pp. 2 4.

70 Seminary 1888 William Stanley US U. S. Electric Lighting Co GE G.I AIEE President Ph. B. in mechanical engineering 1890 Pratt and Whitney Co Assistant to E. W. Rice, Jr., in charge of manufacturing and engineering GE GE, Men of General Electric, p. 7 ; NatCAB 38 ; Monogram, Vol. 7, No. 10, July, 1930, p. 22 ; SWN, October 12, 1947, p. 1 ; New York Times, November, 28, 1947, p. 27 ; Electrical Review, Vol. 78, No. 26, December, 24, 1921, p. 955.

71 Assistant to the President E.W. Allen executive M.E. Griswold Manufacturing Co acting manager Monogram, Vol. 7, No. 5, February, 1930, p. 48, Vol. 4, No 9, June, 1927, p. 5 6 ; Hartford Courant, January 27, 1930, p. 1 ; Railway Age, Vol. 77, No. 26, December, 27, 1924, p SWN, September 8, 1944, p Monogram, Vol. 6, No. 4, January, 1929, p 14, Vol. 6, No. 6, March, 1929, p. 23. SWN 1910 Pennsylvania General Electric Co. SWN, January 4, 1929, p. 7

72 Fort Wayne Electric Light Co. draftsman detail design and testing procedure 1893 Constructing Department 1899 Fort Wayne Electric Works 1911 GE 101 Electric Vacuum Cleaner Co GE Robbins & Myers Co Fort Wayne National Bank Report of an investigation into industrial conditions in the several plants of the General Electric Company, together with recommendations of a plan to improve them (Young Papers, Box 923, Folder 1764), p Bob Parker, THE LIGHTS Fort Wayne Jenney Electric Light Company, Old Fort News, Summer, 1971, p. 13 ; Electrical Engineer, Vol. 17, No. 321, June 27, 1894, p Commercial and Financial Chronicle, Vol. 110, January 17, 1920, p Wall Street Journal, May 13, 1922, p. 13.

73 EE 1900 assistant to the general manager GE 1911 Associated Manufacturers of Electrical Supplies GE 1917 GE Mitchell Co GE Canadian GE WhAm Monogram, Vol. 18, May, 1941, p Electrical Age, Vol. 25, No.2, January, 13, 1900, p Monogram, Vol. 20, November, 1943, p. 11 ; Times-Picayune, November, ; Atlanta Constitution, November, 18, 1917, p. A Sales Promoter, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1946.

74 15 MIT 1910 GE GE GE

75 GE GE GE GE GE

76 financial functions Accounting Department Treasury Department Credit Department Collection Department GE, Professional Management in General Electric, Book 1. p. 55

77 Delbert C. Davis

78 : GE GE GE GE Insull, Samuel (London, England) private schools in Reading and Oxford, England (19) 1878 private secretary to George E. Gouraud secretary to Edison general manager (Edison Machine Works) second vice president (EGE) second vice president 1892 president Chicago Edison Co. Ord, Joseph P (Pasadena, CA) Yale (1873) admitted to the bar Alexander Green 1889 (37) comptroller (EGE) comptroller second vice president director 1900 J.P. Morgan & Co. Beves, Arthur S (London, England) 1884 (26) with Edison 1887 secretary and treasurer, Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Co assistant treasure (EGM) treasurer and assistant secretary 1920 Peach, Benjamin F., Jr Accounting Dept. (TH) first asst. treasurer treasurer Pope, W.F second asst.

79 Clark, Edward Darling, Henry W. Smedberg, Carl G. Schuyler, Herman P (Edinburgh, Scotland) (Edinburgh, Scotland) (Pleasant Valley, NJ) public schools North British Railway Company dry goods merchant president, Canadian Bank of Commerce 1984 Spencer, Trask & Co., stockbrokers 1870 in charge of the sales department, Troy Steel & Iron Co private secretary to Henry H. Rogers of Standard Oil Co (35) 1890 (43) (51) Treasure Edison Company for Isolated Lighting 1886 Edison Electric Light Co. auditor (EGE) auditor general auditor 1890 EGE Treasury Dept second asst. treasure assistant treasure head of the Collection Dept treasurer assistant secretary vice president assistant treasurer (EGE) second assistant treasure assistant treasure 1895 treasurer, Brush Electric Co head of the Credit Dept assistant treasurer Spencer, Trask & Co. 1909

80 Burchard, Anson W. Riley, John Whitestone, Samuel L. Steele, Robert E (Hoosick Falls, NY) Stevens Institute of Technology : ME (1885) 1885 engineer,j. M. Ives Company treasure and manager, T. & B. Tool Company vice-president, Cananea Consoli dated Copper Company 1902 (37) comptroller assistant to the president vice president director vice chairman president of International GE chairman of International GE Assistant General auditor (Vienna, Austria) high school ; took a course in electrical engineering in the evening school at MIT 1892 (22) 1887 bookkeeper, Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Co bookkeeper & accounting, Edison Company for Isolated Lighting and Edison Electric Light Co in charge of correspondence in charge of customers accounts and correspondence traveling auditor assistant general auditor general auditor comptroller (Frankfort, NY) public schools ; studied medicine for one and one-half years 1890 admitted to the bar 1902 Deputy Attorney General (NY) Rosendale & Hessberg 1907 partnership with Danforth E (39) comptroller 1913

81 Ainsworth Murray, Robert S (Chatham, Canada) in the steamship and lumber business with his father 1893 (30) Accounting Dept in Australia and South Africa treasurer of Stanley Co auditor of accounts receivable head of Collection Dept assistant treasurer treasurer Davis, Delbert C (Fort Wayne, IN) high school ; business college (1889) 1889 (19) 1889 assistant treasurer in charge of credits and collections, Fort Wayne Electric Company assistant treasurer of Fort Wayne Electric Woeks head of Credit Dept assistant treasure Patterson, Charles E (New York, NY) Princeton University New York Central Railroad, finally assistant comptroller 1901 comptroller, American Locomotive Co (43) Accounting Dept consulting accountant comptroller vice president president of GE Supply Corp. TH Thomson-Houston Electric Co. EGH Edison General Electric Co

82 1910 Consulting Accountant C. E. Patterson Col. George E. Gouraud Edison Machine Works GE Chicago Edison Co NatCAB 14 ; WhAm 1 ; Samuel Insull File (Edison Biographical File) ; Daily Boston Globe, July, 17, 1938, p. B1.

83 Alexander Green Ashbel Green West Shore Railroad 1889 GE 1894 J. P. US Electrical World, Vol. 19, No. 18, May 14, 1892, p. 331 ; New York Times, March 8, 1901, p. 11 ; Minutes of Board, January 17, 1913 ; Wall Street Journal, February 7, 1894, p. 1 ; New York Tribune, Jan 10, 1913 ; Evening World, Jan 10, 1913.

84 GE Marine Engine & Machine Co Aiton Machine Co GE Electrical World, Vol. 19, No. 18, May 14, 1892, p. 331, Vol.36, No. 9, September 1, 1900, pp , Vol. 46, No. 1, July 1, 1905, p. 40, Vol. 48, No. 8, August 25, 1906, p. 383, ; New York Times, Jul 24, 1945, p Electrical World, Vol. 19, No. 18, May 14, 1892, p. 331 ; SWN, January 9, 1925, p. 7 ; Wall Street Journal, February 7, 1894, p Electrical World, Vol. 38, No. 15, October 12, 1901, p Bernstein Electric Co. Bay State Electric, Heat & Light Co.

85 cash banking GE North British Railway Co Edward H. Johnson assistant to the comptroller GE dry goods merchant 115 Electrical World, Vol. 19, No. 18, May 14, 1892, p Minutes of Board, September 2, 1993, p General Electric Review, 1916, p Electrical World, Vol. 19, No. 18, May 14, 1892, p. 331.

86 Canadian Bank of Commerce President GE Treasure Emeritus GE 1933 GE GE Brush Electric Co. 120 GE Boston Herald, September 6, 1933, p. 15 ; Electrical World, Vol. 24, No. 6, August 11, 1894, p SWN, January 9, 1925, p. 7.

87 George F. Peabody banking firm 1906 Carl G. Smedberg general 1870 Troy Steel & Iron Co Standard Oil Co. Henry H. Rogers GE credit men Wall Street Journal, February 7, 1894, p. 1 ; Plain Dealer, May New York Times, May 1, 1906, p New York Times, December 9, 1933, p NatCAB Wellman Steel & Iron Co. Electrical World, Vol. 54, No. 8, August 19, 1909, p. 455

88 Mechanical Engineer J. M. Ives Co T&B T. & B. Tool Co Cananea Consolidated Copper Co GE GE New York Times, Aug 15, 1909, p. 7 ; Syracuse Herald, August 14, 1909 ; Electrical World, Vol. 54, No. 8, August 19, 1909, p Monogram, Vol. 4, p. 18. New York Times, Jan 23, 1927, p. 19. DIGEST, July- August, 1922, p GE Organization Directory, May 1931, p. 1A GE

89 forty-niner MIT GE 1894 customers accounts 1899 traveling auditor 1907 Assistant General Auditor I.D. LeFevre Business Training Course Electrical World, Vol. 21, No. 16, May 6, 1893, p. 347, Vol. 25, No. 11, March 16, 1895, p. 353, Vol. 27, No. 9, February 29, 1896, pp. 236, Monogram, Vol. 26, May-June, 1949, p. 5.

90 Deputy Attorney General Rosendale & Hessberg 1907 Danforth E. Ainsworth Knickerbocker Trust Co. Superintendent of Banking Clark Williams special counsel GE GE GE GE Monogram, Vol. 13, February, 1936, p. 14 ; Samuel L. Whitestone File (Edison Biographical Files) ; SWN, July 6, 1945, p. 1, January 3, 1936, p. 1, November 19, 1920, p. 3 ; General Office News, July 6, 1945, p General Electric Review, Vol. XVI, 1913, p. 273.

91 G. I Fort Wayne Electric Co GE SWN, January 9, 1925, p. 7, August 7, 1936, p. 1, 4 ; Monogram, Vol. 2, No. 5, February, 1925, p. 24 ; New York Times, Jul 31, 1936, p Monogram, Vol. 3, No 10, July, 1926, p 29, Vol. 7, No. 11, August, 1930, p 32 ; SWN, June 5, 1936, p. 4.

92 YMCA Cornelius Vanderbilt Woodrow Wilson GE Standing Committee of the Electrical Manufacturers Council FTC 1925 General Merchandising Manager George P. Baldwin 133 GE General Electric Supply Corporation 1930 GE

93 OJT GE GE GE GE GE J. P. GE SWN, December 4, 1925, p. 6 ; Monogram, Vol. 10, No. 6, March 1933, p. 16 ; New York Times, December 31, 1930, p. 34, February 13, 1933, p. 21.

94 27 GE GE 1993 Assistant Counsel Robert P. Clapp Hinsdill Parsons

95 Fish, Frederick P. Clapp, Robert P. Parsons, Hinsdill Levis, Howard C (Taunton, MA) (Montague, MA) (Hoosick Falls, NY) (Mount Holly, NJ) : Harvrd College : AB (1875) ; Harvard Law School : LLB (1876) Harvard College (1879); Harvard Law School (1882) Trinity College (1884) ; Albany Law School (1885) Columbia Law School GE GE GE patent attorney sinior member, Fish, Richardson & Storrow for 20 years 1892 patent lawyer (TH) general counsel director counsel 1901 president, AT & T Fish, Richardson, Herrick & Neave Law Department, New York & New England Railroad after 1982 counsel (TH) assistant counsel Johnson, Clapp, Ives & Knight 1889 patent attorney, Walter A. Wood Harvester Co (30) assistant counsel counsel fourth vice president and general counsel vice president and general counsel 1912 organizer of North West General Electric Co. and others 1891 (32) 1891 TH Law Dept assistant counsel active in Lon- 1932

96 Blodgett, George R. Johnston, T. J. Davis, Albert G. Neave, Charles Jackson, Allan H. don (Bucksport, ME) Yale (1884); Columbian University 1884 examiner of Patent Office admitted to the bar 1888 began practice in Washington DC 1889 Benton & Blodgett, patent office 1893 (31) Bostonn Office chief of the Patent Dept counsel assistant to Fish and Blodgett assistant counsel (Brooklyn, NY) MIT (1893) ; National Law School : law degree (1896) Davis-Colby Ore Roaster Co assistant examiner of Patent Office 1896 opened a patent office as a patent attorney 1897 admitted to the bar 1897 (26) counsel vice president (Cincinnati, OH) Yale (1888); MIT (1890); Harvard Law School : master s degree (1893) 1893 Fish, Richardson and Sorrow, a patent law firm opened Fish, Richardson and Neave 1895 (27) patent attorney counsel director (Schenectady, NY) Union College (1886); Albany Law office of his father, Judge Samuel W. Jackson of the state Supreme Court 1902 (38) attorney counsel vice president 1897 opened a office for a patent law business 1933 Pennie, Davis, Marvis & Edmonds

97 School : LLD (1888) 1892 Chanler, Maxwell and Philip, a law firm 1895 partnership with his father and general counsel Young, Hinsdill (Van Hornesville, NY) St. Lawrence University : Bachelor of Philosophy (1894) ; Boston University Law School : LLB (1896) 1896 admitted to the bar law clerk, Charles H. Tyler teaching assistant, Boston University Law School 1907 Tyler & Young 1913 (39) vice president and general counsel chairman honorary chairman chairman honorary chairman TH Thomson-Houston Electric Co. EGH Edison General Electric Co. 1953

98 Howard C. Levis Law and Patent Departments 135 George R Blodgett T. J. Johnston 1898 Albert G. Davis GE, Professional Management in General Electric, Book 1, p. 58.

99 Professional Management Charles Neave Allan H. Jackson Owen D. Young A.B LL.B. 20 Fish, Richardson & Storrow New York Air Brake Co. Pullman Co. GE AT&T 136 GE, Professional Management in General Electric, Book 1, p