Obituary

Bryon C. Wolverton, born in Portland, Maine, April 4, 1863, died at Clifton Springs, New York, April 22, 1930. He joined the Institute as an Associate in 1890 and in 1895 was transferred to the Member´s grade. His general education was acquired at Starkey Seminary and his technical knowledge, under private tutelage in the laboratory. He was first employed as Telegraph Operator by the N. C. Railroad and in 1884 was appointed Electrician of the New York & Pennsylvania Telegraph and Telephone Company, for which he had done work prior to that date. This position required of him the design and construction, as well as the installation, of all apparatus and appliances used by the company, with charge of the company´s shops, all materials used, and general supervision of all technical work. His work also included the making of estimates construction of apparatus, and the installation and care of all switchboards in Central Offices; in fact everything that appertained to equipment used by the company in the pursuit of business. This involved not only the electrical side of operation, but the mechanical as well. Most of his professional work, however, was devoted to the field of telephony, and his position at the time of his death was Chief Engineer of the Friendship Telephone Company, New York, N. Y., the interests of which he has served for many years. He had been made a Member for Life of the Institute.