. Electric railway review . tory sashes. Eugene Griffin, lirst vice-president and generalsales manager of the General Electric Company, died very sud-denly on the evening of April 10 at Schenectady. N. Y., of his wife and daughter he had gone to Schenectady to witness an amateur play given bya local club, of which hisson, Hancock Griffin, wasa leading member. Gen-eral Griffin was born atEllsworth, Me., on Octo-ber, 13, 1855, and was alittle over 51 years of receiving a prepara-tory school education heentered West Point andgraduated in 1S75 withhigh honors. Fo
. Electric railway review . tory sashes. Eugene Griffin, lirst vice-president and generalsales manager of the General Electric Company, died very sud-denly on the evening of April 10 at Schenectady. N. Y., of his wife and daughter he had gone to Schenectady to witness an amateur play given bya local club, of which hisson, Hancock Griffin, wasa leading member. Gen-eral Griffin was born atEllsworth, Me., on Octo-ber, 13, 1855, and was alittle over 51 years of receiving a prepara-tory school education heentered West Point andgraduated in 1S75 withhigh honors. Followinghis graduation he enteredthe engineer corps andobtained the rank of cap-tain. From 1883 to 1SS5he was professor of civiland military engineeringand the art of war atWest Point. He wasthen aide-de-camp on thestaff of Win-Beld Scott Hancock andlater until the close of theyear 1SSS was chief of theengineering division oftlm Atlantic and the de-partment of the 1SS9 he resigned fromwith the Thomson Hous-. Brigadier-General Eugene Griffin. i he army to take up electric engineerin, ton Electric Company as second vice-president. In 1881, when theThomson Houston Company was consolidated with the GeneralElei trie Company, he was elected first vice-president of the Gen-eral Electric Company. In 189:; he was elected president of theThomson Houston International Electric Company, and was alsodirector of that company. At the outbreak of the Spanish-Ameri-can war. General Griffin offered his services to the United Statesand organized the first regiment, United States volunteer engi-neers, of which he became colonel. In January, 1899, he was pro-moted to brigadier-general, which rank he held to the end of thewar. He was a prominent member of several clubs in New YorkCity and was also a member of the Metropolitan Club of Washing-ton, the Somerset of Boston, and the City Liberal Club of held a membership in the more prominent of the engineeringand army clubs. U
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