760 INDUSTRIAL AND ENGINEERING CHEMISTRY V O I . 15, No. 7

0 bi tuary

William Brady William Brady, chief chemist and chemical

engineer, Illinois Steel Co., South Works, Chicago, Ill., died Sunday evening, April 22, 1923, a t his residence, 7642 Marquette Ave., after a brief illness.

IMr. Brady was born October 28, 1863, a t Lafayette, Ind. He was a graduate of Purdue University, class of 1887, and served as assistant instructor of chemistry a t that institution from 1887 to 1889. In 1889 he accepted a position as a chemist with the Illinois Steel Company, South Works, and was promoted to assistant chief chemist in 1893. In March, 1893, he left this company to engage in government work a t the U. S. Experimental Station a t Lafayette, Ind., re- turning to the Illinois Steel Company in 1894. In 1900 he was appointed chief chem- ist, and in 1907, chemical engineer.

He had been a member of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETS since 1902. He was

WILLIAM BRADY

elected vice chairman of the Chicago Section in 1904, chair- man in 1905, councilor in 1909, and a director of the SOCIETY in 1913, serving in this capacity until 1916. In 1908 he became a member of the American Society for Testing Materials and the American Electrochemical Society, in 1907, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the Chemists’ Clubs of Chicago and New York.

Mr. Brady took an active interest in affairs of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, giving generously of his time and advice. In 1912, when the Eighth International Congress of Applied

Chemistry was held in the United States, LVr.

Brady was a member of the executive com- mittee. His untiring energy and service in this work will always be remembered by his associates.

Mr. Brady was an active member of Com- mittee D-5 on Coal and Coke and Committee A-1 on Steel of the American Society for Testing Materials. He also did consider- able work for the Bureau of Standards in connection with their standard samples of steel. He was a member of the United States Steel Corporation Chemists’ Com- mittee and chairman of several of the sub- committees on standardization of methods of sampling and analysis of iron, steel, and various raw materials and by-products. Mr. Brady wa3 an authority on expIoration and valuation work in connection with limestone, fluorspar, and other raw materials used in the manufacture of iron and steel. His fund of knowledge and his executive ability were invaluable. He was active in Y. M. C. A.

and welfare work throughout the South Chicago industrial district.

In the passing of “Bill” Brady the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETS loses a beloved associate, one whose kindliness, interest in his fellow-men, and rugged common sense endeared him to all who came in contact with him.

He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Laura B. Brady, a son, Van W. Brady, and a daughter, Mrs. J. H. Abbott.

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Personals Paul M. Giesy has been made director of the Brooklyn Research

Laboratories of E. R. Squibb & Sons. C A. Nash has resigned his position with the Cutler-Hammer

Manufacturing Company to accept a position as manager of the Bakelite plant of the Reynolds Spring Co., Jackson, Mich.

L. W. Himmler has resigned his position in the Bureau of Animal Industry to join the research staff of the Cudahy Packing Co., Omaha, Nebr.

Henry Kraemer, of Mount Clemens, Mich., has been elected an honorary member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.

Ronier D. Oilar, chemical engineer, has returned from a trip to South America, where he spent more than a year in development and investigational work on vegetable oil, soap, and packing- house industries.

Eric A. Lof, who since 1909 has been employed as an industrial engineer and specialist with the Power and Mining Engineering Department of the General Electric Co., has resigned to accept a position with the American Cyanamid Co., New York, N. Y.

Harold H. Spengler has resigned his position with the Koppers Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa., to accept a position as compounder for part of the mechanical goods of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio.

Charles F. Whitternore, of Denver, Colo., sailed on June 6 for Buenos Aires to make installations of apparatus for purifying radium in the Argentine capital. Mr. Whittemore will remain in South America about ten weeks.

F. W. Sullivan, Jr., has resigned from the teaching staff of the Department of Chemistry a t the University of Michigan to go into research work with the Standard Oil Company (Indiana), a t Caspar, Wyo.

Frank J. Monaghan has been appointed Commissioner of Health for New York City to succeed Royal S. Copeland, who has been elected to the United States Senate. Dr. Monaghan has been sanitary superintendent of New York City for the past five years.

Bradley Stoughton, formerly of Columbia University and later secretary of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, has been appointed professor of metalIurgy a t Lehigh University.

John C . Brier has resigned as professor of chemical engineering a t the University of Michigan to engage in the development of technical service for the Glidden Company.

Hugh K. Aiken, formerly a member of the Staff of Instruction, Department of Chemistry, Cornell University, has accepted a position with E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Experimental Station, Henry Clay, Del.

H. H. Willard has been appointed full professor of analytical chemistry, University of Michigan, effective in the fall of 1923. Professor Willard has been a member of the staff of the Depart- ment of Chemistry for a number of years and has made many valuable contributions in the field of quantitative analysis.

Gerald L. Wendt, now with the Standard Oil Company (Indi- ana), has been elected an honorary member of the Science As- sociation of the Maharajah’s College a t Vizianagaram, South India. During the past semester he has been giving a course of lectures on subatomic phenomena a t Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

R. J. Quinn, formerly of Chicago, has been transferred to the New York office of the Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc., 25 West 43rd St., New York City.