Obituary

William Weeden Cole, Mem. A. I. E. E., consulting engineer and member of the firm of Cole, Ives and Davidson, of New York, died at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., December 20, 1915. Mr. Cole was 48 years old and a graduate of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, class of 1887. After several years of railroad work in the West, Mr. Cole came to Boston as electrical superintendent of the West End Street Railroad. From 1892 to 1908 he was associated with the Elmira, N. Y., Water, Light and Railroad Company as vice-president and general manager. Later he became consulting engineer for Day and Zimmerman of Philadelphia and New York. Retiring from this connection, he opened a consulting office in New York in 1914, later becoming a member of the firm of Cole, Ives and Davidson. Mr. Cole was the first president of the Empire State Gas and Electric Association. He was elected an Associate of the Institute on April 25. 1902, and was transferred to the grade of Member on October 23, 1903.