. Railway mechanical engineer . tel Astor, New York, onThursday, February 18. Mr. Leonard was a prominent elec-trical engineer and inventor. He was born in Cincinnati onFebruary 8, 1861, He graduated from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, and when he was 23 years of agebecame associated with Thomas A. Edison as a member ofMr. Edisons staflf of four engineers selected to introduce theEdison Central Station System. When he was 26 years ofage he became general superintendent of the W^estern ElectricLight Company at Chicago. The following year he formedthe firm of Leonard & Izard, which ma
. Railway mechanical engineer . tel Astor, New York, onThursday, February 18. Mr. Leonard was a prominent elec-trical engineer and inventor. He was born in Cincinnati onFebruary 8, 1861, He graduated from the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, and when he was 23 years of agebecame associated with Thomas A. Edison as a member ofMr. Edisons staflf of four engineers selected to introduce theEdison Central Station System. When he was 26 years ofage he became general superintendent of the W^estern ElectricLight Company at Chicago. The following year he formedthe firm of Leonard & Izard, which made many importantinstallations of central stations and electric railways. In the firm was bought out by the Edison interests, became general manager of the combined Edisoninterests for the United States and Canada, with headquartersin New York. In 1891 he completed his inventions of theWard Leonard system of motor control, and later introducedseveral other iniiiortant inventions in the electrical J. A. Mclarland has been a|.|.oinled southwestern district man-ager r,f tbe l,ir<l-.\ (ompany, ( hicago. with headquarters intlu Irisco building, St. Louis. Mo. Mr, McFarland was born on October 23, 1880. atMendota, 111. After fin-ishing his cfimmon schooleducation he entered theUniversity of Illinois,from which he graduatedin 1903, having special-ized in chemistry. Hebegan railway work inMay of the same year inthe chemical department(jf the Atchison, Topeka& Santa Fe, at Topeka,Kan. On January 1,1904, he became the testing depart-inent of the Chicago &Xorth Western. In Feb-ruary, 1905, he becamechief chemist of theMissouri Pacific, in whichJ ^ McFarland position he remained un- til May, 1909. when hetook charge of tbe St. Louis office of the Dearborn ChemicalComjiany, Lliicago, looking after the latters railroad business inthat territory. In July, 1911, he left that company to becon-echemist and engineer of tests of the Frisco System,
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