sociation, life member of the Bates Association, and director of the Syracuse 

 Museum of the Fine Arts. In 1910, Mr. Bates was appointed official dele- 

 gate of this Society to the Fiftieth Anniversary of the foundation O'f the Insti- 

 tution of Naval Architects, which was held in London. 

 He died August 3, 1919. 



MARSHALL TEN BROECK DAVIDSON 



MEMBER 



Mr. Davidson was born in Albany, N. Y., 1837, and from his early 

 boyhood showed great interest in steam machinery, particularly the loco- 

 motive and steamboat engines. In 1857 he entered a marine engine machine 

 shop, Ft. North Moore Street, New York City, and later went to sea as 

 assistant engineer on ocean steamers. 



Upon, the breaking out of the Civil War, he was assistant engineer on a 

 steamer running from San, Francisco to the various settlements on Puget 

 Sound. He came east in 1862 as volunteer, second assistant engineer in the 

 Naval Service, but was requested tO' accept a position as chief engineer of an 

 army transport building at Wilmington, Del. He superintended the con- 

 struction and installation of the machinery of this vessel, and after its com- 

 pletion received a commission as chief engineer in the Revenue Cutter Ser- 

 vice, superintending the building and installation of the machinery for that 

 service. 



At the close of the war, Mr. Davidson became a contracting engineer, 

 and in 1878 started the business which is now carried on in Brooklyn, N. Y., 

 under the name of the M. T. Davidson Co., builders of pumps and pumping 

 engines. 



His knowledge of character and strong attachments to those he liked 

 and trusted created the faithful staff whom he gradually brought to operate 

 the business on the lines laid down by him, and in the corporation formed 

 some years ago to carry on his work, the same "Davidson" men who had 

 been with him for twenty-five years or more were given charge of the busi- 

 ness to carry on the principles on which they are so well grounded. 



Mr. Davidson was closely identified with the progress of engineering 

 in the United States Navy since the building of the "White Fleet," which 

 marked the beginning of our modem warship construction. His practical 

 knowledge of engineering, especially as applied to pumping machinery, 



