Shipbuilding Company. With the exception of two years as vice-president and general 
manager of the Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Mr. Jeffrey has been associated with 
the American Shipbuilding Company as general superintendent at its plants at Bay 
City, Lorain, and since 1905 of the Detroit Shipbuilding Company, a subsidiary of the 
American Company. Many ships built by him now in service on the Great Lakes and 
in all parts of the world are monuments to the memory of one who did things well. 
Thoroughly honest, capable, and loyal to his friends, associates and his adopted country, 
he was trusted and beloved by all who knew him. His devotion to his family was excep- 
tional and unvaried. Besides his wife, who was Miss Agnes Corrigan, one daughter, 
Mrs. Lillie Collins, and one son, William, survive. 
Mr. Jeffrey died May 24, 1920. 
EDMUND MILLS 
MEMBER 
The Babcock & Wilcox Company suffered a serious loss of one of its oldest and most 
faithful employees in the death of Mr. Edmund Mills on January 26, 1920. He was 
born in Jersey City, N. J., February 15, 1864, so that he was almost fifty-six years of 
age. Nearly twenty-five years of his life had been spent in the service of The Babcock 
& Wilcox Company. 
He received his education in the public schools of Jersey City, and, having great 
natural mechanical aptitude, after leaving school served an apprenticeship as a machinist 
and worked for a short time at that trade. Later he was in business for himself for nearly 
four years. He was then for about two years in the draughting department of the Daft 
Electric Company, about a year of the time as chief draughtsman. From 1891 to 
1895 he was with the Colwell Iron Works, which later became the Wheeler Condenser 
and Engineering Company. 
In 1895 Mr. Mills entered the marine department of The Babcock & Wilcox Company 
as a draughtsman. He assisted Mr. W. D. Hoxie in the development of the Babcock 
& Wilcox marine boiler as it now exists by working out the detail drawings to embody 
Mr. Hoxie’s ideas. He was later made chief draughtsman of the marine department. 
In 1909 he was transferred to the general office of the company as an engineer and 
correspondent, and here the last eleven years of his life were spent in most efficient work. 
He not only had fine mechanical judgment, but he had equipped himself thoroughly 
as an engineer dealing with combustion and the generation of steam, so that he was well 
equipped for the work which devolved upon him. He was conscientious and careful 
