Yale University - Sheffield Scientific School Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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EDWARD VAN INGEN Died October 27, IQO5

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BIOGRAPHIES. I I7 February, 1893, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, Conn. Hospital for Insane, February, 1893, to September, 1893, designer for General Electric Co. at Lynn, Mass., December, 1893, to October, 1895, designer for the VVin- chester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, Conn., October, 1895, to September, 1896, engineer for Pope Tube Wforks, Hartford, Conn., September, 1896, to June, 1897, Instruc- tor in the Boardman Manual Training School, New Haven, June, 1897, to May, 1898, in business as consulting engineer, New Haven, May, 1898, to September, I8Q8, in U. S. N avyg September, 1898, to September, 1899, designer with 'William Cramp 81 Sons, Philadelphia, Pa. g September, 1899, to July 1, 1903, Instructor in Mechanical and Marine Engineering, Lehigh University, So. Bethlehem, Pa. 5 july to September, 1900, designer for VVilliam Cramp tk Sons, july to September, 1901, designer for the Newport News, S. 81 D. D. Co., july to September, 1902, inspector for the New York Shipbuilding Co., July 1, 1903, to February 1, 1906, he was Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia University, New York City g February 1, 1906, to April 20, 1907, salesman and engineer for the No-npareil Cork VVorks, New Y ork City. He has traveled over the eastern part of the United States, from Maine to New Orleans, and twice to Nova Scotia. Since April 24, 1907, he has been VVorks Manager for the Veeder Manufacturing Co., Hartford, Conn. , Business address: Veeder Manufacturing Co., Hart- ford, Conn. Home add1'css: I7 Townley St., Hartford, Conn. EDWARD VAN INGEN was born August 29, 1867, in Lenox, Mass. He prepared at Hill School, Pottstown, Pa., and entered college in Freshman year, pursuing the Select course. , His father, Edward Hook Van Ingen, son of Harrnanus Schuyler Van Ingen, was born in Schenectady, N. Y. He x

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BIOGRAPHIES. I I 9 resides at 9 East 71st St., and is a member of the firm of E. H. Van Tngen Co., woolen merchants. His mother's maiden name was Mary Lawrence McLane. He married Mae Anderson Bell, a graduate of Miss Morton's School, and daughter of Edward T. Bell, a banker, January 27, 1897, in Paterson, N. They have three children, two of whom are twins: Edward Hook 2d and Lawrence Bell, born October 18, 1898, in New York, and Katherine, born February 21, 1900, in New York. Van Ingen died Gctober 27, 1905, in Roosevelt Hospital, New York City of appendicitis. He was heartily inter- ested in all forms of athletics and in every phase of college life. He was well known throughout the University, and formed many friendships among the Academical students. In the spring of 1890 he was elected an editor of the Yale News. Following is an extract from the Yale Almmzi Weekly of December 13, 1905: 'lEdward V an Tngen, eldest son of Edward Hook V an Ingen and Mary Lawrence McLane, died at Roosevelt Hos- pital October 27th, after an operation for appendicitis. He was born at Lenox, Mass., August 29, 1869, and until 1889, when his family moved to New York, lived in Brooklyn. He attended boarding school at Darien and at Norwich, Conn., for a short time, and in 1885 entered the Hill School, at Pottstown, Pa., where he prepared for Yale under the care of Dr. john Meigs. He entered the Sheffield Scientific School in the Class of 1891, and was graduated among the first ten men of his class. He was a careful and industrious student, his accuracy and ability in expressing his thoughts and the ease with which he acquired knowledge soon made him a favorite with all his instructors. These qualities were developed to a marked degree in his later life. As a Freshman Mr. Van Ingen immediately gained great popularity with his classmates, and soon became well known throughout the University. Nor were his intimacies con- fined to the Scientific Department, indeed in no department was he more generally liked and esteemed than in the Aca- demic. The many friendships he made there endured