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will be greatly missed by his hosts of friends. His mortal remains were interred with appro- 
priate ceremonies in the old Moravian cemetery, on the side of Staten Island hills, over- 
looking the sea, which he loved so well. 
He became a member of this Society in 1919 and died January 13, 1922. 
DAVID FARIS 
ASSOCIATE 
Mr. Faris was born in Wheeling, W. Va., on May 20, 1878, and was educated in the pub- 
lic schools and at the Linsly Military Academy in Wheeling, from which he graduated in 
1896, going to work almost immediately for the Bellaire Steel Works, Bellaire, Ohio. 
At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War he joined the Army and went to the Phil- 
ippines. Upon his discharge in 1899, at the end of the war, he took a course in the Elliot 
Commercial School in Wheeling and then came to Pittsburgh to work in the purchasing 
department of the National Tube Company. In 1901 he entered the employ of the National 
Cash Register Company in Dayton, Ohio, and a few months later became connected with 
the engineering department of the Pressed Steel Company in McKees Rocks, Pittsburgh. 
In May, 1904, he was employed in the production department of the Westinghouse Ma- 
chine Company, at East Pittsburgh, and later was transferred to the sale department, where 
he remained for five years. He then was assigned to the Atlanta office as sales engineer, 
and later was engaged in the Chicago office. In 1912 he was given charge of the Detroit 
and Indianapolis offices of the Westinghouse Company. When the Westinghouse Machine 
Company was absorbed by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company in 1915, 
Mr. Faris returned to East Pittsburgh and was made assistant to the manager of the power 
department of the company. In 1919 he became assistant manager of the marine depart- 
ment, in which position he remained until his promotion, on July 1, 1922, to be manager 
of that department. 
He became a member of this Society in 1920. His death occurred in his office at the 
East Pittsburgh works of the Westinghouse Company, July 10, 1922. 
RICHARD JAMES HALL 
ASSOCIATE 
Mr. Hall was born at Philadelphia, Pa., November 15, 1893. He was educated in the 
Philadelphia High School and took an evening course in naval architecture at the Franklin 
Institute, Philadelphia, and also a course in marine engineering. He was employed by the 
New York Shipbuilding Corporation from July, 1911, to August, 1916, and entered the em- 
ploy of the Sun Shipbuilding Co., August, 1916. Later he became assistant to the chief 
draughtsman. Mr. Hall was lost at sea on the morning of February 8, 1922, in the burn- 
ing of the S. S. Northern Pacific, which was totally destroyed by fire off Cape May, N. J., 
while being taken from Hoboken, N. J., to the yard of the Sun Shipbuilding Company, at 
Chester, Pa., to be reconditioned for the Pacific trade. 
