Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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Offier Robert C. Sweetser, S. B., Instructor in Inorganic Chemistry. William W. Bird, S. B., Instructor in Mechanical Drawing a?id Steam Engineermg. Joseph O. Phelon, S. B., Instructor in Physics. •James L. Barnes, Assistant in Civil Engineering. Alton L. Smith, S. B., Assistant in Drawing and Mechanical Laboratory. Charles A. Clough, S. B., Assistant in Physics. Harry P. Davis, S. B., Assista?it in Physics. Stanley H. Rood, S. B., Assistant in Physics. Ellis W. Lazell, S. B., Assistant in Chemistry. Lee Russell, S. B., Assistant in Mechanical Laboratory. Zelotes W. Coombs, A. B., Clerk and Assistant in Languages. Mathias B. Walls, Instructo r in Iro?i Work. Horace W. Badger, Instructor in Wood Work. George A. Mitchell, Assistant Instructor in Iron Work. 9

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Homer T. Fuller, Ph. D., President , and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy . George I. Alden, M. M. E., Professor of Mechanical Engineering. George E. Gladwin, Professor of Drawing . Milton P. Higgins, S. B., Superintendent of the Washburn Shops. John E. Sinclair, Ph. D., Professor of Higher Mathematics. Alonzo S. Kimball, Ph. D., Professor of Physics. Edward P. Smith, Ph. D., Professor of Modern Languages and Political Science. Thomas E. N. Eaton, Ph. D., Junior Professor of Mathematics. U. Waldo Cutler, S. B., Assistant Professor of Modern Languages. Leonard P. Kinnicutt, Ph. D., Professor of Chemistry. George H. White, S. B., Professor of Civil Engineering. George D. Moore, Ph. D., Assistant Professor of Chemistry. 8

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©bituarp. ' ' T ' RUSTEE of the Polytechnic Institute from 1869 to 1891 ; died I in Worcester, April 23, 1891. In the death of Mr. Moen the city has lost one of her more illustrious and public-spirited citizens; the circles of business, a man of high character and unusual financial ability ; society an orna¬ ment and an originator of power—for Mr. Moen was in himself a marvellous creative social force,—and the Institute a valuable counsel¬ lor and a liberal and constant benefactor. Mr. Moen was better and very widely known, formerly as one of the original partners of the firm of Washburn Moen, and later, since 1869, as president of the Washburn Moen Manufacturing Company, the largest wire making concern in the world. The permanent success of this business was ensured by the combination of the mechanical skill of Mr. Ichabod Washburn, founder of the Washburn shops, and the re¬ markable administrative and financial talent of Mr. Moen. Says the former in his diary, written in 1866 : “ In ' 1850 I took as my partner my son-in-law, Philip L. Moen. In him I have had most efficient aid in bringing up the business to its present mammoth size. While he makes no claim to being a practical mechanic, he has, by his exactness, promptitude and aptness for business generally, supplied a deficiency in myself indispensable to success. He has rare ability over finances.”