Abstract :
Samuel Sheldon, the nineteenth president of the A. I. E. E., was born on March 8, 1862, at Middlebury, Vermont, where he was graduated from Middlebury College in the year 1883 with the degree of A. B., receiving the A. M. degree in 1886, and the honorary degree D. Sc. in 1911. At college he was the winner of the Waldo prize for four years, was salutatorian of his class at graduation and received the highest honors in physics.
