. 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. He was process chemist at thefactory of Church & Co., Trenton, WayneCounty, Mich., manufacturers of bicarbon-ate of soda by the ammonia process, 1894-98. In 1898 he was engaged by the BrooklynUnion Gas Co. to assist in investigating theelectrolytic destruction of their piping bystray trolley-currents, and at the terminationof this survey, etc., an electrical departmentbeing formed by the company, Mr. Mc-
. 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. He was process chemist at thefactory of Church & Co., Trenton, WayneCounty, Mich., manufacturers of bicarbon-ate of soda by the ammonia process, 1894-98. In 1898 he was engaged by the BrooklynUnion Gas Co. to assist in investigating theelectrolytic destruction of their piping bystray trolley-currents, and at the terminationof this survey, etc., an electrical departmentbeing formed by the company, Mr. Mc-Gowan was placed at its head, with the titleof electrical engineer. This position he stillholds, having charge of the question ofelectrolysis and of the gas-engine 1903 he was appointed general managerof the Flatbush Gas Co., still retaining hisposition with the Brooklyn Union Gas is the author of the following articles: Electrolysis, The Effect of Stray Trolley-Currents, 5/cz^c«.y Institute Indicator,yLVlll,No. 2; Remedy for Electrolytic Damage toMains, Progressive Age, XX, No. 24. In 1900 McGowan was instrumentalwith two or three others, in forming a Uni-. H. E. McGowan versity Glee Club in Brooklyn to be anucleus for a University Club similar to thatin Manhattan. The University Club ofBrooklyn, of which he is a member, was in-corporated July 18, 1901. He is also a mem-ber of the Crescent Athletic Club and of theBeta Theta Pi fraternity. THE ALUMNI MacGregor, Willard Holmes (, 96),was born in New York city May 3, to 1896 he studied at the College of
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