Obituary

Dr. Samuel Sheldon, Past President of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering for 31 years at The Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, died on Saturday evening, September 4th of Brights´ disease at the Addison House, Middlebury, Vt. With him at the time of his death were his only son, Samuel Sheldon, Jr., of Brooklyn and his only surviving sister, Mrs. Susan B. Miner of Middlebury. The services and burial took place in Middlebury, where his wife, who was Frances Warner Putnam of Brooklyn, died in 1914.