| "Lived into his late eighties. He was the "genius"of the family, and hated it because everyone would meet him and say, "C'mon, Ed, do something geniousy." Which, I believe, he did, although not on demand. He graduated from Rutgers in 1914, where he ran track (he was a scrawny little kid just like Ralph and me) and studied engineering. I know he spent a couple of years as an engineer in Cuba, but don't know if it was before or after the war (WW I, that is, son.) Neither do I know when or where he met a chap named Ham, and they wrote a textbook, "Mechanics of Machinery" by Ham & Crane. I know that the text was still in standard use when George (Winfred) went to college to study engineering, and still current when your father (Michael) studied in college. For all I know, it may still be in use, although I assume it was written in the 1920's. He served in France, and somehow met a lovely French war widow from Grenoble. He married Aunt Lydie and adopted her two infant children, daughter Andre and son Louie. (To my knowledge, I've never heard Lydie's maiden name.) Ed settled in the Chicago area and worked for GE until he retired. Until after WW II he was at the Hawthorne plant, and he once told me that he had met Elgin Mayo, the lighting expert whose experiments led to creation of the famed 'Hawthorne Effect'. -- Told by Don Curtis Crane. |