Life History

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• [dec of griffith yale ap einion.GED]     He graduated from theSheffield Scientific School of Yale University in 1912, receiving thedegree of Ph.B. In 1913 he received the degree of M.A. from ColumbiaUniversity, at which college he was an instructor. He specialized inchemical engineering. He served as a First Lieutenant in the ChemicalWarfare service, United States Army in France, 1917-1918, and afterarmistice was connected with the Board for Determination of WarDamages under General McKinsky. In 1924 he organized and becamePresident of the Pratt-Daniel Corporation of NYC, Engineers andConstructors of Machinery. He was a member of Delta Kappa EpilsonFraternity, the Engineers Club of NY, the American Oil ChemistsSociety and the American Society of Mechanical Engineering. He wonrecognition as a sculptor, in which art he is interested as anadvocation. He resided at 308 E 79th St, NYC and at Westport, CT whenthe Whiton book was published in 19312.

Sources

• 1. Tombstone inscription, Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
• 2. The Whiton Family In America: The Genealogy of the Descendants ofThomas Whiton (1635)
• 3. Lineage Papers of Robert Forsyth Little, Jr. for the Society of theColonial Wars