Byllesby, Henry Marison : 1859-1924

Name : Henry Marison Byllesby
Occupation : electrical engineer
Born : Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 16, 1859
Died : May 1, 1924
Parents : Son of Rev. DeWitt Clinton and Sarah (Mathews) Byllesby

Education : Lehigh University, Pa.
Married : Margaret Stearns Baldwin, of Roselle, N.J., June 15, 1882.

Was associated with Thomas A. Edison in the early days of electric lighting in N.J., and has been identified with many movements and advances in electric enterprises.

Now president of H. M. Byllesby & Company engineers, Chicago; also officer and director of Mobile Electric Company, Alabama; Ft. Smith Light & Traction Company, Arkansas; Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma); Enid Electric & Gas Company, Oklahoma; Muskogee Gas & Electric Company, Oklahoma; Ottumwa Railway & Light Company, Iowa; San Diego Consolidated Gas & Electric Company, California; Standard Gas & Electric Company, California; Arkansas Valley Railway Light & Power Company, Colorado; Securities Exchange Company, Northern States Power Company, Shaffer Oil & Refining Company.

Member of American Society of Civil Engineers, American Institute of Mechanical Engineers, Western Society of Engineers, National Electric Light Association, National Civic Federation (executive committee), Universal Military Training League (executive committee), Chicago Civic Federation, member of executive committee St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago; director of Chicago Civic Federation.

Clubs : Chicago, Union League, University, Mid-Day, Commercial, Glen View Golf (Chicago); Metropolitan, Recess (New York); Minneapolis (Minneapolis); Arlington (Portland, Oregon); Lake Geneva Country (Wisconsin)

Politics: Republican.

Commissioned Lt. Col. U.S.A., and assigned to headquarters of Chief Signal Officer, Washington.
Purchasing agent in Great Britain and Scandinavian countries for American Expeditionary Forces, headquartered in London, June-Dec., 1918, when honorably discharged. Awarded D.S.O. (British).

Office : 208 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill.

~  Who's Who in America, Vol. 13, 1924-1925, Edited by Albert Nelson Marquis, Printed by A. N Marquis & Company in Chicago, IL, Page 614  (Necrology Page 164 : Deaths Reported During Course of Printing Who's Who in America).

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