THE RECORD OF HENRY MARION HOWE 

 I. BIOGRAPHIC DATA 



Born March 2, 1848, at Boston, Mass. 



Graduated from Boston Latin School, 1865. 



Graduated as A. B. from Harvard College, 1869. 



Graduated (degree corresponding to B. Sc.) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1871. 



Received degree of A. M. from Harvard College, 1872. 



Student in steel works at Troy, N. Y., 1871-72. 



Superintendent of Bessemer works of Joliet Iron & Steel Co., 1872. 



Superintendent of Blair Iron & Steel Co.'s works, Pittsburgh, 1873-74. 



Married Miss Fannie Gay, of Troy, N. Y., 1874. 



Improvements in copper smelting in Chile for heirs of Augustus Hemenway, 1877-78. 



Designed and built the works of the Orford Nickel & Copper Co., at Capelton and Eustis, in the Province of 



Quebec, Canada, and at Bergen Point, N. J., 1879-82. 

 Manager of Pima Copper Mining & Smelting Co., Arizona, 1882. 

 Consulting metallurgist, with office in Boston, and lecturer on metallurgy at the Massachusetts Institute of 



Technology, 1883-97. 

 Professor of metallurgy in Columbia University, New York, 1897-13, and professor emeritus from 1913. 

 Chairman, engineering division, National Research Council, 1919. 

 Consulting metallurgist, Bureau of Standards; Bureau of Mines. 

 Deceased, May 14, 1922 at Bedford Hills, N. Y. 



II. DISTINCTIONS RECEIVED 



HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS 



Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. 



Russian Imperial Technical Society. 



Russian Metallurgical Society. 



Cleveland Institution of Engineers, England. 



Soci6t4 d' Encouragement pour l'lndustrie Nationale of France. 



Dallas Historical Society, Texas. 



Alumni Association of the School of Mines of Columbia University. 



American Iron and Steel Institute. 



Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, England. 



American Society for Steel Treating. 



National Research Council, honorary chairman engineering division. 



American Society for Testing Materials. 



FELLOWSHIPS, ETC. 



National Academy of Sciences (Member). 



New York Academy of Sciences (Fellow). 



Washington Academy of Sciences (Non resident Member). 



American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow) . 



American Philosophical Society (Non resident Member). 



American Academy of Engineers (Charter Member). 



PRESIDENCIES 



American Society for Testing Materials (four terms, 1900-02, 1909-12). 



American Institute of Mining Engineers, 1893. 



International Association for Testing Materials, 1912. 



Alumni Association, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (three terms). 



Jury of Awards, Mining and Metallurgy, Chicago Exposition of 1893. 



HONORARY VICE PRESIDENCY 



Iron and Steel Institute of Great Britain. 



LIFE MEMBERSHIP OF COUNCIL 



International Association for Testing Materials. 



ORDERS 



Knight of the Order of St. Stanislaus, Russia (second order, with star of first order). 

 Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France. 



