. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. 9, 1864. of J. Adams and Mary J. (Burroughs) attended the public schools in Brook-lyn, N. Y., and East Orange, N. J., andStevens Preparatory School, Hoboken, N. was in the machine-shops of W. & Co., Hoboken, N. J., 1892; andhas been with the Fidelity & Casualty York, from 1893 to date, occupyingsuccessively the following positions: assist- THE ALUMNI 463 ant superintendent of
. Morton memorial; a history of the Stevens institute of technology, with biographies of the trustees, faculty, and alumni, and a record of the achievements of the Stevens family of engineers. 9, 1864. of J. Adams and Mary J. (Burroughs) attended the public schools in Brook-lyn, N. Y., and East Orange, N. J., andStevens Preparatory School, Hoboken, N. was in the machine-shops of W. & Co., Hoboken, N. J., 1892; andhas been with the Fidelity & Casualty York, from 1893 to date, occupyingsuccessively the following positions: assist- THE ALUMNI 463 ant superintendent of inspection department;assistant in liability and steam-boiler depart-ment; acting superintendent of liabilitydepartment; assistant superintendent ofsteam-boiler and elevator department; act-uary of liability lines, and second assistantsecretary of the company, which latter posi-tion he now holds. During his connectionwith this company he has contributed largelyto the development of the actuarial side ofliability insurance, thus putting it on a scien-tific basis, and has originated fly-wheel in-surance. Lawrence, Frank Vinton (, 95),was born in London, England, in 1874. He. F. V. Lawkence was in the employ of the, Pope Manufac-turing Co., makers of Columbia bicycles,Hartford, Conn., 1895-98, as designer of spe-cial machinery, rising to next in rank to thechief draughtsman; designer and draughts-man at the Henry R. Worthington HydraulicWorks, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1898-99; and chiefdraughtsman and assistant engineer withthe Ransome Concrete Co., New York, 1899-1901, during which time the Mineola (L. I.)court house was designed and built underthe Ransome system of reinforced concreteconstruction, in which all the foundations,walls, floors, roof, and dome are a combina-tion of concrete and square steel barstwisted, the steel bars being introduced wherever the concrete is subjected to ten-sional stresses. He was engineer with theRansome Construction Co., Philadelphia,1901-02; and is
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