. Bell telephone magazine . changed in 1865, was in action atLynchburg, and was among the of-ficers present at Appomattox whenGenerals Ulysses S. Grant and Rob- Forbes: Telephone Pioneer 185 ert E. Lee discussed the terms ofsurrender of the Army of Virginia,These and other incidents have animportant place in the first part ofthe book. After his return from the army,Forbes married Edith Emerson,daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson,famous New England author and phi-losopher. Some of Forbess lettersyield interesting material on Emersonfamily affairs. Throughout much of the biographyare paragraphs reve
. Bell telephone magazine . changed in 1865, was in action atLynchburg, and was among the of-ficers present at Appomattox whenGenerals Ulysses S. Grant and Rob- Forbes: Telephone Pioneer 185 ert E. Lee discussed the terms ofsurrender of the Army of Virginia,These and other incidents have animportant place in the first part ofthe book. After his return from the army,Forbes married Edith Emerson,daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson,famous New England author and phi-losopher. Some of Forbess lettersyield interesting material on Emersonfamily affairs. Throughout much of the biographyare paragraphs revealing Forbessskill in and deep enjoyment of yacht-ing. Among his other interests, asidefrom business, were travel, shooting,horses and horsemanship, and the ad-ministration of his residential estates. William Hathaway Forbes wasborn in 1840 and died in 1897. ^^second son, W. Cameron Forbes, be-came a director of the American Tele-phone and Telegraph Company in1919, and, save for the two yearsfrom 1930 to 1932 when he served. William Hathaway Forbes1840-18^/ as American Ambassador to Japan,he has continued in that office to thepresent time. Whos Who & Whats What {Continued from page I2j) trie. He went to work as assistant editorof the Allentown plants emplojee news-paper. After nearly two years on that job,he transferred to the Western Electric pub-lic relations group at 195 Broadway, NewYork. A BOOK REVIEW dealing, telephone-wise,with the period from 1879 to 1887 comesappropriately from the pen of Ralph E. MooxEY, who since 1945 has been histori-cal librarian of the A. T. & T. telephone career began in 1924, aftersome years of newspaper and trade journalexperience, when he joined the Public Re-lations Department of the SouthwesternBell Telephone Company in St. Louis. Be-fore transferring to New \ ork in 1944 h^had been editor of the Soutlnrestern Tele-phone Neus, and in recent years he has beena frequent contributor to this most recently published artic
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