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T H E J O U R N A L OF I N D U S T R I A L A N D ENGINEERING C H E M I S T R Y
Vol. 13, No. 4
PERSONAL NOTES
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Dr. J. C. Cain, editor of the Journal of the Chemical Society (London), died on January 31,1921, in his fiftieth year. Throughout his scientific career, Dr. Cain was closely associated with the British dyestuff industry. During the war he served on Lord Moulton’s staff, advising as to the convertibility of chemical factories for explosives manufacture. He later was in charge of H. M. Factory, Hackney Wick, and still later was transferred to the Technical Committee of British Dyestuffs. Ltd. Dr. Cain was the author of “The Synthetic Dyestuffs and Intermediate Products,” “Chemistry of the Diazo Compounds,” and “The Manufacture of Intermediate Products for Dyes.” His revision of Roscoe and Schorlemmer’s “Non-Metallic Elements” appeared only a short time before his death. Dr. J. D. Pennock, general manager of the Solvay Process Co., died on March 11, a t Syracuse, N. Y. Dr. Ernst J. Lederle, who was health commissioner of New York City during two administrations, that of 1902 to 1904 and from 1910 to 1914, died a t Goshen, N. Y . , March 7. Dr. Lederle was one of the few health commissioners of New York who was not a physician. He was born in Staten Island in 1865, and was graduated from the Columbia School of Mines in 1886, later receiving from the same university the degrees of Ph.D. and Sc.D. He founded the Lederle Laboratories and the Lederle Antitoxin Laboratories, which are now merged with the firm of Lederle and Provost. Mr. Jacob Hasslacher, well known in chemical circles, and until a year ago an active member of the firm of Roessler & Hasslacher Chemical Co., which he helped to establish in 1889, died a t his home in New York City on March 15, 1921, a t the age of 69. Mr. Hasslacher was born in Ems on-the-Lahn, Germany, and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1899. He was the leading factor in the formation and subsequent development of the Niagara Electro Chemical Company and the Perth Amboy Chemical Works, as well as other enterprises in which the company is interested. Dr. John Iredelle Dillard Hinds died a t Nashville, Tenn., March 4, 1921, a t the age of 74 years. Dr. Hinds was for over 40 years a professor of chemistry in Cumberland University, the University of Nashville, and Peabody College, and at the time of his death was chemist of the Tennessee GeologicalSurvey. Dr. William F. Jones, a chemist who was prominent in the development of the pyroxylin industry, died recently a t his home at Colonial Heights, Tuckahoe. Dr. Jones was born in Hillsboro, N. C., and was educated a t Wake Forest College and Johns Hopkins University. Dr. F. P. Dewey, chief chemist of the Mint Bureau of the U. S. Treasury, Washington, D. C., died February 12, 1921. Mr. Hyman Bornstein has entered the employ of Deere & Co., Moline, Ill., as metallurgical engineer, where his duties will be in connection with metallurgical problems in the manufacture of agricultural implements. Mr. Bornstein’s previous position was chemical engineer of the Bureau of Engineering, City of Chicago, Ill. Mr. Philip Drinker has left the Buffalo Foundry and Machine Co., Buffalo, N. Y., where he was employed in the sales engineering department, and is now engaged in research work in the laboratory of applied physiology at the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. Mr. Ralph W. Boyd has resigned as chemist of the metallurgical research department of the Colorado School of Mines, and has become associated with the Desert Shale Oil Corporation of Salt Lake City. Mr. M. A. Hurtt, formerly connected with the By-product Coke Works of the Illinois Steel Co., Gary, Indiana, has become general foreman of the By-product Coke Works of the Pittsburgh Crucible Steel Co., Midland, Pa. Mr. W. R. Holt, formerly with the chemical division of Procter & Gamble Co., is now plant superintendent with the Harris Soap Co., Buffalo, N. Y . Mr. C. L. Voress, who was in charge of the experimental and development work of the “Charcoal Absorption Process” a t the plants of the United Natural Gas Co., and the B. B. Stroud Co., at Bradford, Pa., has been made general manager of the newly incorporated Gasoline Recovery Corporation, hTew York, and Mr. Vernon C. Canter, formerly with Procter & Gamble Co., and more recently with Mr. Voress, has been given active charge of all the experimental and development work a t Bradford, Pa.
Mr. Wilson H. Low resigned as head chemist of the Cudahy Packing Company last June, after 22 years of service in that capacity, and has entered partnership with his former head assistant, Mr. John H. Show, in Los Angeles, Cal. Mr. P. B. Place, a recent graduate of New Hampshire College, is a t present employed as junior chemist a t the U. S. Bureau of Mines, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Alfred N. Finn, formerly in the research department of the Hydraulic Steel Co., Cleveland, Ohio, has been reinstated as associate chemist at the Bureau of Standards, Washington, D. C., where, previous to the past year, he had been engaged for about nine years in the chemical testing of structural materials and miscellaneous supplies. His present assignment is in chemical control of the manufacture of optical glass. Mr. H. J. Nimitz resigned as manager of the feed department of the Buckeye Cereal Co., Massillon, Ohio, in order to become superintendent of the feed department and chemist with the Brooks Milling Co., Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. Lula Gaines Winston has resigned as head of the department of chemistry a t the State Normal School for Women, Farmville, Va., and holds a similar appointment at Meredith College, Raleigh, N. C. Mr. G. E. Webster, who was discharged last November from the Ordnance Department where he last served as army inspector of ordnance, property responsibility officer, and in other capacities, was reinstated as chemist a t Picatinny Arsenal in December 1920. Mr. F. P. Monoghan, for the past ten years superintendent for the Burt Portland Cement Co., of Bellevue, Mich., is employed in a similar capacity with the Glens Falls Portland Cement Co., Glens Falls, N. Y . Dr. Philip L. Blumenthal has left the Babcock Testing Laboratory of Lackawanna, N. Y., and is now with the Lacteal Analytical Laboratories, Inc., Buffalo, N. Y. Mr. Leicester Patton resigned as chief of the Buffalo Station, Bureau of Chemistry, and has accepted a position with the Brocton Fruit Products Co., Brocton, N. Y., as chemist and production manager. Mr. Julius Gorzo has changed from his former business of chemical engineering, and is now with the Pittsburgh Industrial Engineering Service, Pittsburgh, Pa., where he takes charge of the engineering and sales departments. Mr. Arnim R. Brandt has resigned as chief chemist for the Amazon Rubber Co., Akron, O., and is now acting in a similar capacity for the Isleworth Rubber Co., Ltd., Isleworth. England. Dr. A. L. Kibler has accepted the transfer from Picatinny Arsenal, where he served as chief chemist, to the Old Hickory Powder Plant, Jacksonville, Tenn., for the purpose of supervising the recovery of platinum from contact mass owned by the Ordnance Department. Mr. H. W. Blanchard recently severed his relations with the chemical division of Procter & Gamble Co., Cincinnati, O., and at present is connected with the physics department of Purdue University, LaFayette, Ind. Mr. M. E. Campbell has left the United British Refineries of Trinidad, B. W. I., and has accepted the position of chief chemist for the Continental Mexican Petroleum Co., Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico. An Industrial Fellowship has been established a t the University of Pittsburgh by Mrs. Fredonia J. Pratt, of St. Louis, Mo., as a memorial to her husband, the late Dr. David S Pratt, former assistant director of the Mellon Institute, for research in that field of organic chemistry in which Dr. Pratt was especially interested. Mr. R. L. Sibley, formerly employed as research chemist by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.. Akron, O., is now connected with the Intelligence Section of the Development Department of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Mr. Allen E. S t e m , formerly assistant professor of chemistry in the University of West Virginia, Morgantown, W. Va., has accepted a similar position in the University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo., where he has charge of the work in electro- and physical chemistry. Mr. Martin S. Kissel, formerly of Brooklyn, N. Y . , is now connected with the Sun Cheong Milling Co. of Shanghai, China, in the capacity of chief chemist.
