i^att|0, 1919 



ALBERT ALLEN 



MEMBER 



Albert Allen was born January 10, 1873. He served an apprenticeship 

 in the shipyard of Furness, Withy & Company, Ltd., West Hartlepool, En- 

 gland, and was employed by them until 1905. He afterwards entered the 

 employ of Lloyd's Register of Shipping at Baltimore and New York. His 

 principal duties covered the inspection, during construction, of vessels build- 

 ing at the above-named ports for classification with that society. 



He died March 2, 1919. 



EDWARD PAYSON BATES 



MEMBER 



Edward Payson Bates was bom iVIarch 3, 1844, in Savannah, Ga. At the 

 age of seventeen he entered the machine shop of Hobart B. Bigelow, in New 

 Haven, Conn., who was afterwards governor of the State of Connecticut. He 

 remained there only a short time when he moved tO' Albany, N. Y., and en- 

 tered a machine shop. He later moved to New York City, where he was 

 granted a marine license and for several years went to sea as an engineer, 

 seeing service on a transport bearing wounded from Libby Prison. 



Soon after this he entered business with Mr. Willis Warner at Syracuse, 

 N. Y., in the erection of steam-heating apparatus. After the death of Mr. 

 Warner he established a business under the firm name of Bates & Johnson 

 Co., locating branches in eleven cities. The business was later incorporated, 

 and Mr. Bates was president at the time of his death. 



Mr. Bates was a member of this Society, charter and life member of 

 the Technology Club of Syracuse, life member of the Mayflower Society of 

 Mass., life director of the American Bible Society, life member of the Arche- 

 ological Institute of America, member of the Robert Fulton Memorial As- 



