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September, 1925
Barney Nelson, for the last few years plant manager
of the American Forge & Machine Company,
Canton, Ohio, has resigned to take charge of the forging
division of Fairbanks-Morse & Company, plant at
Beloit, Wis. Mr. Nelson has been in the forging business
for 19 >ears.
H. H. Davis has been made assistant to the president
of the Titusville Forge Company, Titusville, Pa.
He formerly was assistant general manager of sales
for the Molybdenum Company of America.
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Fred M. Randlett has been appointed district manager
of the Pacific northwest territory by Robert W.
Hunt Company, inspecting, testing and consulting
engineer. Mr. Randlett for the past eight years has
been chief engineer of the water department of Portland,
Ore. Prior to that he was with the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad and Stone & Webster,
Inc. He is a member of the American Society
of Civil Engineers. American Water Works Association
and other engineering societies.
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Robert Roadhouse has been appointed to the service
staff of the Ferro Enamel Supply Company, Cleveland,
having previously been with the enameling department
of the Benjamin Electric Manufacturing
Compan) , plant at Des Plaines, 111.
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J. Harry Main, formerly supervisor of purchases
for the General Motors Corporation, has been appointed
Detroit district representative of the General Drop
Forge Company, Buffalo, with offices at Detroit.
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Joseph J. Tynan, at one time general manager of
the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, has been elected
vice president of the Bethlehem Steel Company,
Bethlehem, Pa., in charge of Pacific coast activities.
He succeeds Leigh B. Norris, Pacific coast representative
who has resigned. Mr. Norris came to the Bethlehem
organization through the Cambria Steel Company.
He was formerly sales representative of the
latter and of its successor, the Midvale Steel & Ordnance
Company at New York.
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Harry Z. Callender has been elected vice president
in charge of sales of the Whitman & Barnes Manufacturing
Company, Akron, O., manufacturer of twist
drills and reamers. Mr. Callender joined the company
in September, 1895, as an order clerk in the Cincinnati
office. After five years there he became traveling
representative in the South. For 16 years he was
traveling for the company, being transferred to A^kron
in 1918 where he assisted in the reorganization of the
sales department. Mr. Callender was acting assistant
sales manager since August, 1924.
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S. A. Dinsmore, for several years district sales
manager in Chicago for the Standard Gauge Steel
Company, Beaver Falls, Pa., has been transferred to
the Chicago office of the Union Drawn Steel Company,
with which the Standard Company recently was
merged. B. H. Elliott is western sales manager of
the Union Drawn Steel Company.
Wm. J. Priestley, formerly in Pittsburgh as metallurgical
engineer for the Electro Metallurgical Sales
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Corporation, has been transferred to the home office,
30 East Forty-second street, New York, as assistant
general sales manager of this company and in similar
capacity for the electrode division of the National Carbon
Company. R. S. Poister, formerly with the United
Alloys Steel Corporation, Canton, Ohio, and now with
the Alan Wood Iron & Steel Company, Norristown,
Pa., has been employed to succeed Mr. Priestley,
October 1, as metallurgical engineer in Pittsburgh.
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Harry B. Lindsay has been appointed sales manager
of the refractories division of the Norton Company,
Worcester, Mass. Mr. Lindsay will take over
the work of Charles W. Saxe, who will now devote
his whole time to the engineering and production end
of the department.
Ben H. Miller, manager of production, United Alloy
Steel Corporation, Canton, Ohio, has resigned. He
has been with the United company for the past 14
years. He expects to enjoy an extended vacation prior
to engaging in other work.
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R. J. Wysor, who has been assistant general manager
of the Cambria works, Bethlehem Steel Corporation,
at Johnstown, Pa., since the acquisition of the
Midvale Steel & Ordnance Company by the Bethlehem
company, has resigned that position to become
assistant general manager of the Jones & Laughlin
Steel Corporation, Pittsburgh. Before going to Johnstown
Mr. Wysor had been assistant general manager
of the Sparrows Point plant, Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
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Clifford B. Bellis, formerly a member of the editorial
staff at Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering,
has opened an office at 161 Milk Street, Boston, as consulting
metallurgist. He specializes on steel and technical
publicity writing.
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T. V. Buckwalter, who has been chief engineer for
the Timken Roller Bearing Company, Canton, Ohio.
was made vice president in charge of engineering at
the July meeting of the directors of the company.
OBITUARIES
William McConway, aged 83, president of the Mc-
Conway & Torley Company, Pittsburgh, steel manufacturer,
died in St. Francis Hospital that city, July
28th following an operation after four weeks' illness.
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Charles H. Kingsbury, formerly associated with
Niles-Bement-Pond Company, died suddenly August
7, aged 62 years, at Quincy, Mass. He became Boston
representative of the Niles-Bement-Pond Company in
1897, but retired from business in 1910 because of
poor health. He enjoyed a wide acquaintance among
New England machine tool men.
The Steel Furnaces Corporation, 19 West Fortyfourth
Street, New York, capitalized at $500,000 will
exploit patents of special annealing processes and furnaces,
applicable to a wide variety of steel products,
particularly tin plate, sheets, wire and cold rolled strip
steel. K. A. Herrman is vice president.