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INDUSTRIAL A N D ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY
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0bi tuary William Brady
Chemistry was held in the United States, LVr. Brady was a member of the executive comWilliam Brady, chief chemist and chemical mittee. His untiring energy and service in engineer, Illinois Steel Co., South Works, this work will always be remembered by his Chicago, Ill., died Sunday evening, April 22, associates. 1923, a t his residence, 7642 Marquette Ave., Mr. Brady was an active member of Comafter a brief illness. mittee D-5 on Coal and Coke and Committee IMr. Brady was born October 28, 1863, A-1 on Steel of the American Society for a t Lafayette, Ind. He was a graduate of Testing Materials. He also did considerPurdue University, class of 1887, and served able work for the Bureau of Standards in as assistant instructor of chemistry a t that connection with their standard samples of institution from 1887 to 1889. In 1889 he steel. He was a member of the United accepted a position as a chemist with the States Steel Corporation Chemists’ ComIllinois Steel Company, South Works, and mittee and chairman of several of the subwas promoted to assistant chief chemist in committees on standardization of methods of 1893. In March, 1893, he left this company sampling and analysis of iron, steel, and to engage in government work a t the U. S. various raw materials and by-products. Mr. Experimental Station a t Lafayette, Ind., reBrady wa3 a n authority on expIoration and turning to the Illinois Steel Company in valuation work in connection with limestone, 1894. In 1900 he was appointed chief chemfluorspar, and other raw materials used in ist, and in 1907, chemical engineer. the manufacture of iron and steel. His fund WILLIAM BRADY He had been a member of the AMERICAN of knowledge and his executive ability were SOCIETSsince 1902. He was CHEMICAL invaluable. He was active in Y.M. C. A. elected vice chairman of the Chicago Section in 1904, chairand welfare work throughout the South Chicago industrial man in 1905, councilor in 1909, and a director of the SOCIETY in district. 1913, serving in this capacity until 1916. In 1908 he became a In the passing of “Bill” Brady the AMERICANCHEMICAL member of the American Society for Testing Materials and the SOCIETS loses a beloved associate, one whose kindliness, interest American Electrochemical Society, in 1907, a member of the in his fellow-men, and rugged common sense endeared him to American Association for the Advancement of Science. He all who came in contact with him. was a member of the Chemists’ Clubs of Chicago and New York. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Laura B. Brady, a son, Mr. Brady took a n active interest in affairs of the AMERICAN Van W. Brady, and a daughter, Mrs. J. H. Abbott. SOCIETY, giving generously of his time and advice. CHEMICAL In 1912, when the Eighth International Congress of Applied L. P. CHASE
Personals Paul M. Giesy has been made director of the Brooklyn Research Laboratories of E. R. Squibb & Sons. C A. Nash has resigned his position with the Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing Company to accept a position as manager of the Bakelite plant of the Reynolds Spring Co., Jackson, Mich. L. W. Himmler has resigned his position in the Bureau of Animal Industry t o join the research staff of the Cudahy Packing Co., Omaha, Nebr. Henry Kraemer, of Mount Clemens, Mich., has been elected an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Ronier D. Oilar, chemical engineer, has returned from a trip to South America, where he spent more than a year in development and investigational work on vegetable oil, soap, and packinghouse industries. Eric A. Lof, who since 1909 has been employed a s an industrial engineer and specialist with the Power and Mining Engineering Department of the General Electric Co., has resigned to accept a position with the American Cyanamid Co., New York, N. Y. Harold H. Spengler has resigned his position with the Koppers Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa., t o accept a position as compounder for part of the mechanical goods of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. Charles F. Whitternore, of Denver, Colo., sailed on June 6 for Buenos Aires t o make installations of apparatus for purifying radium in the Argentine capital. Mr. Whittemore will remain in South America about ten weeks. F. W. Sullivan, Jr., has resigned from the teaching staff of the Department of Chemistry a t the University of Michigan to go into research work with the Standard Oil Company (Indiana), a t Caspar, Wyo.
Frank J. Monaghan has been appointed Commissioner of Health for New York City t o succeed Royal S. Copeland, who has been elected to the United States Senate. Dr. Monaghan has been sanitary superintendent of New York City for the past five years. Bradley Stoughton, formerly of Columbia University and later secretary of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, has been appointed professor of metalIurgy a t Lehigh University. John C . Brier has resigned as professor of chemical engineering a t the University of Michigan to engage in the development of technical service for the Glidden Company. Hugh K. Aiken, formerly a member of the Staff of Instruction, Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, has accepted a position with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Experimental Station, Henry Clay, Del. H. H. Willard has been appointed full professor of analytical chemistry, University of Michigan, effective in the fall of 1923. Professor Willard has been a member of the staff of the Department of Chemistry for a number of years and has made many valuable contributions in the field of quantitative analysis. Gerald L. Wendt, now with the Standard Oil Company (Indiana), has been elected an honorary member of the Science Association of the Maharajah’s College a t Vizianagaram, South India. During the past semester he has been giving a course of lectures on subatomic phenomena a t Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. R. J. Quinn, formerly of Chicago, has been transferred t o the New York office of the Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc., 25 West 43rd St., New York City.
