Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Transit Yearbook (Troy, NY)

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PALMER CHAM1sER1.A1NIc RIQKIQTTS, CE., ED., l,L.D., Pl'6.YlidC'1Il and Director. R. P. I., 'T.3. Born in 1856 at Elkton, Mml.g was grzulllutecl from Rensselaer in 18755 Assistant in lklathv- matics, R. P. I. '75g Assistant P1'ofessor, '82g Professor of RICf'llfIlllf'H, N55 Director sinee '92g President since 1901. Consulting Bridge lffngiiieer, T. SL B. R. R. 'Sli-'87, :incl ll. NY. 5: O. R. R., '87-'91g Engineer, Public' Improvement Connnission, City of Troy, '91-lfliig also lcllgllllliffl' in charge of design :mtl construetien of Various brimlges, hyclrznllie works, ete. Societies: BIC1I1l'JOI' A. S. C. 111.5 Member A. S. M. 111.5 Member 1. C. IG. of Great Britiung Member of the Allli-!1'll5Hll Pllilosopliieul Societyg Member of AII16I'lIZ2l.I1 Institute Mining lflngiiieersg Fellow A. A. A. S., :mal others. Publiezrtioiis: History of the Rensseluer Pelytec-lmie Institute , contributor to Rep. U. S. flOII1II1. 1'lCllli721l,l0ll, Rep. N. Y. State li. li. Comm., Tranis. Ain. Sue. C. E., Proc: Soc. Prem. Eng. Ed., Engineering News, Ruilroucl Gazette, Railway Review, Trans. Eng. Club of Phihulel- pliiu, etc. Trustee of Troy Public Librtwy :incl Albany Aeadenlyg Trustee of the Dudley Observa- tory, Albany. Member ofthe Board of Direeters, Sulmwitzni Hospital and Union National Bank. 22

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1Bresihents 1824-28 REV. SAMUEL BACHFORD, D.D. . . . 1st President 1828-29 REV. JOHN CHESTER, D.D, . . . 2nd President 1829-45 ELIPHALET NOTT, D.D., LL.D. . . 3rd President 1815-65 NATHAN S. S. BEMAN, D.D. . . 4th President 1865-68 HON. JOHN F. VVINSLOW . . 5th President 1868-68 THOMAS C. BRINSMADE, M.D. . Iith President 1868-813 HON. JAMES FORSYTH, LL.D. . . . 7th President 1888-01 JOHN HUDSON PECK, LL.D. . . . . 8th President 1901- PALMER C. RIC'KETTS, C.E., E.D., LL.D .... 9th President Senior Rrnfsssurs anh Directors 1824-42 AMOS EATON, A.M. ...... Senior Professor 1842-415 GEORGE H. COOK, C.E., Ph.D. . . . Senior Professor 1847-.39 B. FRANKLIN GREENE, C.E., B.N.S., AAI. . . . Director 1859-139 NA1'H.AN S. S. BEMAN, D.D. . . . , Director 18150-713 CHARLES BROWNE, C.E., E.D., LL.D. . . Director 1876-78 YVILLIAM L. ADAMS, C.E. . , . . Director 1878-91 DAVID M. GREENE, C.E. . . . . Director 1892- PALMER C. RICKETTS, C.E., E.D., LL.D. . Director 21

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Jfanultp VVILLIAM Prrr MAsoN, C.E., MD., LL.D., SCD., Emeritus Professor of f'11cmf1'c'al E11gi11eeri11g. R. P. I., 'Tlg Alb, EE, TBII. Born October 12, 1853, in New York City, prepared at Bernard French Institute in New York City and entered Rensselaer in Sep- teniher. 1870, and was graduate in 1874, with degree of C.lC. He spent t-he following year in Europe, appointed Assistant in Chemis- try and Natural Science in the Institute in '75, received the degree of B.S. from the Institute in '77, M.D. from Albany Medical College in '81, LL.D. froin Lafayette College in 'OSQ Sc.D. from I'nion in 1917, appointed .Xssistant Professor of Chemistry and Natural Science in '82, Professor of Analytical Chemistry in 185, and Pro- fessor of Chemistry in '95. Societies: Meniber of Ain. Phil. Soc., Member Institute Consulting Engineers. IYICIIIIJOI' Ain, Soc. C. IC., Ain. Puhlic Health Assoc.. Royal Sanitary lInst. Cllrcat Iiritainj, New Iingland IYatcr Works Assoc., Ifranklin Institute, Ani. Chem. Soc., Inst. Chem. Iingineers, Ilon. Member Assoc. Iflngr. Hyg. tParis5, Ani. XYater Works Assoc., Fellow of A..-X..-MS., etc. Pulmlications: Notes on Qualitative Analysisn, '82, 'flllxaniination of Portable Voter , '90, Water Supply , '95, and contributed to Various cheinical journals. Expert. in nunierous con- tested cases dealing with Water Supply and Sewage Disposal. CH.xHL1gs IYIXTIIROP Cnockicrr, A.B., C.I5., AAI., LL.D., Pnjessor of .lfatlzcnzatics Cl1ld.'lSfl'OIZUHZ'1'. R. P. I., 'S-lg Southern KA, EE, TBII. Born October 6, 1862, at Macon. Cla.. was graduated froin Mercer I'niversit.y in '79, with degree of AJS., entered Rensselaer in Septem- ber, ISS9, and was graduate in ISS-I with degree of CE., appointed Assistant Professor of Mathclnatics and Astronomy in September, 1884, received the degree of .-LM. froni Mercer Vnivcrsity in ISSG, and of I.L.D. in 1913, appointed Professor of Matlieinatics and As- I . tronolny in IS93. Professor Crockett is a Ineniber of A. A. S., Anierican Math. Soc., and of other societies and is a Fellow of the ,L .L A. S. l'ulvlications: 'tI'lxplanation of the Mannhiein Slide Rule , Plane and Spherical Tl'igonon1etry , Logarithmic and 'l'rigononietric Tables , Methods for liarthwork Q'oniputations , and HBI2itllPIIltlfil'til Review . Designer of Crockett YOIIIIIIO Slide Rule. IVILLIAM L1sPENARn Roms, LI,.D., Ph.D., Head of llc- jvortmelzl of Elcctrioal E1lgZ.Il66'VZilIg, Professor of Electrical ElZgZ.ll66fl.7Ig and P1lj'SI.CS. Columbia, '89, Adv, fbBK, EE, R. S. E. fHlJ11.D liorn at. Saratoga Springs, N. Y., on May 9, 1861. He prepared for college at the Owcgo Acadelny and entered Columbia in 1876 and graduated in 1889. He was awarded the fellowship in science upon graduation and spent the next three years in Germany, where he studied under Iiohlrausch, von Helmholtz and Iiirehotf, receiving the degree of Ph.D. from the Iinivcrsity of Berlin. Upon his return 1 H he was appointed Assistant. in Mathematics at the School of Mines of Colunihia IYI1IVCl'SiIY. In IS85 he was called to Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., as Professor of Physics, where he remained seventeen years. He is Consulting Engineer of numerous corporations, notably the General Railway Signal Co., the Hartford lilectric Light Co., the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, the General Electric Co., and the Troy Gas Co. During the Spanish war he was in charge of the installation of submarine inines in Long Island Sound. Ile is a lneinbcr of the Anierican Physical Society, the .Xinerican Institute of Electrical Engineers, and the New York Academy of Sciences. .J-3