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from Columbia University in 1903 and from Rutgers College in 1916. Mr. Hewitt was 

 first vice-chairman of the Naval Consulting Board of the United States upon the organi- 

 zation of that board during the great war. 



The Elliott Cresson Gold Medal was awarded to Mr. Hewitt in 1913 by The Franklin 

 Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of Mechanic Arts. 



Peter Cooper He;witt was a member of numerous societies, clubs, etc., and became a 

 member of this Society in 1907. He died in Paris, France, August 25, 1921. 



WILLIAM NEILL HOWELL 



MEMBER 



Mr. Howell was born in Minersville, Scliuylkill County, Pa., on May 8, 1860. He was 

 educated in private and public schools and at the University of Pennsylvania, taking private 

 instruction under his father who was then Professor of Mineralogy and Chemistry. 



Mr. Howell entered the shipyard of Messrs. Wm. Cramp & Sons on the Delaware in 

 1878, as an apprentice machinist, and after three years in the shop entered the drawing room 

 and worked his way up to the position of chief draughtsman in the engine drawing room. 



At the outbreak of the Spanish War in 1898 he left Cramp's and entered the U. S. 

 Navy as chief engineer of the monitor Montauk with the rank of senior lieutenant. 



Shortly before the war was over he went to the Sandy Hook Proving Ground and 

 finished up the design and testing construction of the 10-inch Howell depressing gun carriage 

 for Admiral John E. Howell and Mr. C. E. Creasy of Washington. This was an experi- 

 mental carriage the work on which he had undertaken while with Messrs. Wm. Cramp & Sons. 



In the early part of 1899 he went to Cleveland, Ohio, as chief engineer of the Globe 

 Iron Works, but left in the fall of 1900 and was for a few weeks at Sparrows Point, Md., 

 in the Marine Department of the Maryland Steel Co. 



On January 1, 1901, Mr. Howell commenced his duties as superintendent of the Phoenix 

 Iron Works Co., of which Mr. Samuel Dick was president, and remained with them until the 

 spring of 1903, when he resigned to accept the position of superintendent engineer of the 

 Eastern Shipbuilding Company, of Groton, Conn., who were building the two large steam- 

 ers Minnesota and Dakota of the Northern Pacific R. R. Co. These two ships were finished 

 in the summer of 1904 and he stayed in New London until January 1, 1905, and then went 

 to Philadelphia and entered into a partnership with Robert Snyder as consulting engineers, 

 under the name of Howell and Snyder, until May 9, 1905, when he sailed for Germany 

 to take charge of the Berlin office of the Lake Torpedo Boat Co., which was building a num- 

 ber of submarines for the Russian Government. 



After about two years in Berlin the company moved the office to London where he 

 spent two years. During this time he went to St. Petersburg, Russia, for four months. 

 Finally, when the Russian and Austrian work was finished in the latter part of March, 

 1909, he left London and came back to America and continued with the Lake Torpedo Boat 

 Co., in charge principally of experimental work on heavy oil engines of the Diesel type 

 until October, 1913, when the Lake Company shut down. 



On July 15, 1914, he accepted a position with the Patterson, Allen Engineering Co., of 



