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Who's Who in Engineering / 1922

The 900-building statement

The family may feel the size of the life without pretending every building has already been named and proved.

The 900-building statementSelf-reported directory

Professional directory entry / 1922

Scale is real, but itemization is a duty

Frank's printed professional summary gives the famous nine-hundred-building scale. Later papers keep the firm visible into the nineteen-twenties and thirties.

Where this page comes from Who's Who in Engineering, 1922
Why it changes the telling The family may feel the size of the life without pretending every building has already been named and proved.
How far it carries us The aggregate statement marks scale, not a list. Individual projects still need their own papers.
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FRANK A. PATTISON, WHO'S WHO IN ENGINEERING 1922 directory excerpt Local OCR/transcription note.

caster) Pattinson; ed pub sch; m. Chatham, Ont., 1915, Edith Melville Holmes; ch: Hulme Holmes, Mary Constance. Pres, Central Pipe Line Co., ietd.;) pres ‘Medina > Nat.’ Gas~\.Co.,.Ltds;~ pres United Development Co., Ltd.; v-p Union Development Co., Ind. Mem A.I.M.: & M.E., Canadian Inst. Min. & Met., Am. Petrol. Inst., Am. Gas Assn. Nat. Gas. Assn. of Am. A.S.H. & V.E.

PATTISON, Frank A., 304 Madison Av., New York City; res Colonia, N. J.

Cons. Ener: 6. New. York, N. Y., Dec., 10, 1866; s. Walworth and Mary (Hitchcock) Pattison; ed. pvt. schools, Rutgers Prep. School; A.B. 1887, A.M. 1889, Rutgers Coll; Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Upsilon; m. New York, N. Y., Mary Hart; children: Diantha, Maynicke. With Edison Electric Light Co., New York, 1887; elec. engr Edi-

‘son Electric Illuminating Co., New Orleans, La.,

1888-89; elec. engr in charge of central stations in Lancaster, Sunbury, Pa., 1889; cons. engr with office in New York, during which time has been cons. engr for elec. and mech. equipment of nine hundred bldgs in ninety-one cities in U. S. since mem. firm Pattison Bros. Service in Seventh Regiment, N, Y.- Nat. Guard six and_oneFellow A.I.E.E., mem. A.S.M.E. Recreations: Golf, camping.

PATTON, Daniel Webster, P. O. Box 940; res. 511 South Victor St, Tulsa, Okla. mS) Civil Engr; b. Greenwood, Ark., Aug. 1, 1885;