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and engineer and assistant superintendent of Williams & Robin Sons Water-Tube Boiler 

 Works, Queens Ferry, South Wales. Mr. Francis came to this country in 1912. He first 

 took a position with the General Electric Company and later assumed charge of the engi- 

 neering department of the Bamet Leather Works in Little Falls, but returned to the General 

 Electric Co., and during the war he had charge of installation of marine geared turbines 

 for that company. Mr. Francis died December 21, 1920, leaving a wife and four children. 

 He had been a member of the Society since 1918. 



EMILIO SEVERO GODOY 



MEMBER 



Emilio S. Godoy was born in Santiago October 15, 1872. He graduated from the 

 Institute of Havana in 1889 and two years later entered the street railway field as manager 

 of the city system of Lima, Peru. He projected the first electric railway in Peru, a 20-mile 

 interurban line from Lima to Chorrillos, and managed its construction in 1904. He under- 

 took, soon after, the electrification of the Lima system, comprising about 20 miles of track, 

 and completed the work in 1906. He was one of the organizers of the Empresas Electri- 

 cas Asociadas of Lima, which was founded in 1906, and served on the Board of Managers 

 till 1913, when he accepted the appointment of general manager of the Santiago system. 

 While in Santiago de Cuba, Mr. Godoy was also a manager and director of the Compania de 

 Urbanizacion y Ensanche de Santiago y Caney, a land development company, fully developing 

 and building what is the most modern part of the city. He held both positions until the latter 

 part of 1916, when he was appointed general manager and vice-president of the Standard 

 Shipbuilding Corporation, of Shooter's Island, Staten Island, N. Y., which he reorganized, in- 

 creasing its personnel during the war to approximately 7,000 men, and launching 27 ships. 

 He was elected a member of this Society in 1918 and died January 12, 1921. 



MAURY POLK GREGG 



MEMBER 



Mr. Gregg was bom April 20, 1892. He was a graduate of the Blight School and the 

 course in naval architecture in the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia. He served an appren- 

 ticeship in the Cramp's Shipyard, 1910-1914, and was later employed as draughtsman by 

 J. Murray Watts, New York Navy Yard, and Chester Shipyard, 1914-1917. He served as 

 surveyor in the American Bureau of Shipping from 1917 until his death in San Juan, P. R., 

 January 27, 1921. Mr. Gregg had been a member of Company B, Philadelphia Engineer- 

 ing Corps, National Guard of Pennsylvania, and left surviving him a mother and a sister. 

 He had been a member of this Society since 1917. 



