Obituary

Kenneth A. Reed (A´19) chief engineer, electrical division, Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, Hartford, Conn., died March 23, 1935. Mr. Reed was born at Gregory, Ark., January 30, 1883. Following graduation from the University of Arkansas with the degree of bachelor of electrical engineering in 1907 he entered the apprenticeship course of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company at Cincinnati, Ohio. The next year he was employed in the operating department of the Northwest Water and Light Company, Yakima, Wash., and in 1910 joined the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in St. Louis, Mo., as an electrical engineer. He was engaged in construction work until 1917, when he became assistant district superintendent. In 1918 Mr. Reed accepted the position of maintenance engineer in the electrical operating division of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York, N. Y., where he had charge of the maintenance of central stations and substations. Leaving this position in 1921 and joining the Hartford Insurance Company, Mr. Reed assisted in the creation of the then new insurance of electrical machinery. His principal responsibility was the organization of an inspection service for electrical machinery that would minimize preventable losses, and papers on the subject written by him have been published in technical journals. At the time of his death Mr. Reed was a member of the electrical machinery committee of the Institute, on which he had served since 1931, and for several years he was a member of the electrical apparatus committee of the National Electric Light Association (now Edison Electric Institute).