Obituary

John Winfield Barnett and his four-year old son Clifford were passengers on the S. S. Marowijne, which left Puerto Cortes, Honduras, on August 11, 1915, bound for New Orleans, and is supposed to have foundered on August 15 in the terrible storm which swept across the Gulf of Mexico. Mr. Barnett was Superintendent of the electrical department of the New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Company. He was graduated in 1907 from the School of Electrical Engineering of Purdue University, where he was elected to membership in Tau Beta Pi. After two years spent with the General Electric Company as student engineer, he went to San Juancito, Honduras, in 1909, where he soon rose to the position of electrical superintendent for the mining company, which position he held at the time of his death. He was elected an Associate of the Institute on February 11, 1910.