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George Herbert Stockbridge "George Herbert Stockbridge, patent attorney of New York, chairman of the Law Committee of the Institute [American Institute of Electrical Engineers], died in New York April 26, 1916. Mr. Stockbridge was born in Mexico, Maine in 1952. He was graduated from Bates College, and then took a postgraduate course of three years at the University of Leipzig. He became an instructor at John Hopkins University and later at Amherst College. Mr. Stockbridge then entered the United States Paten Office, where he became chief electrical examiner. While engaged in this work he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He practiced in Washington, and in 1898 came to New York as counsel for the Westinghouse interest. . . . [He served as] legal advisor of the Cooper Hewitt Electrical Company. Mr. Stockbridge employed much of his leisure in literary pursuits, and had published verse and was a contributor to leading magazines." [Obituary, 35 (5) Proceedings of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers 119 (May, 1916)] [In a published version of Stockbridge's "History of Electricity in America" his date of birth is presented as July 2, 1863 and his place of birth as Cincinnati, Ohio and that he was educated at Ohio State University and MIT. Most references to Stockbridge's death that I have seen report the information found in the American Institute of Electrical Engineers obituary.] Poetry George Herbert Stockbridge, Balder the Poet and Other Verses (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894) [online text] |
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