Deaths, 1916 
DARWIN ALMY 
MEMBER 
Darwin Almy was born in Tiverton, R. I., on February 28, 1848. He 
attended the local schools in Tiverton until about sixteen years of age and 
then took up work on his father’s farm until the death of the latter in 1868. 
Afterwards, he became interested in menhaden fishing and was master of 
one of the first fishing steamers out of Tiverton. 
In 1874 he went to Providence and formed a partnership for the manu- 
facture of jewelry, which was abandoned about two years later. After this 
he returned to the fishing business. 
In 1878 he entered the employ of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company 
at Bristol, R. I. He had charge of the boiler department and had the advan- 
tage of taking part in numerous trial trips of fast steam yachts. During 
the first part of this time the government conducted there a series of experi- 
ments under Admiral Zellar and Admiral Isherwood on engines and boilers, 
and through this association he became very much interested in steam 
engineering. 
In 1890 he took out his first patents on the boiler which bears his name 
and organized the Almy Water-Tube Boiler Company, of which he was the 
bead until his death. 
He was a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 
the American Society of Naval Engineers, the Society of Naval Architects 
and Marine Engineers, Providence Association of Mechanical Engineers, 
Chamber of Commerce of Providence, Central Club of Providence, Bristol 
Yacht Club and Rhode Island Yacht Club. 
He died in Providence on March 9, 1916. 
