Background
Landrum, Robert Dallas was born on February 8, 1882 in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Son of James Wesley and Kate (Tolbert) Landrum.
Landrum, Robert Dallas was born on February 8, 1882 in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. Son of James Wesley and Kate (Tolbert) Landrum.
Bachelor of Science, Rose Polytechnic Institute, Terre Haute, 1904, Master of Science, 1909, Chemical Engineering, 1914.
Annual Chemist and enameler, Columbian Enameling & Stamping Company, 1904-1907. Assistant professor of chemistry, University of Kansas, 1907-1910. Chemical engineer Lisk Manufacturing Company, Canandaigua, New York, 1910-1913.
Construction engineering Michigan Enameling Works, Kalamazoo, Michigan, General Stamping Company, Canton, O., 1913-1914.
Chemical, engineer and manager service department Harshaw Fuller & Goodwin Company, manufacturers industrial chemicals, Cleveland, Ohio, 1914-1922. Vice president Vitreous Enameling Company, also Vitreous Steel Products Company, Cleveland, 1922-1925.
General manager Ceramic Materials Division Titanium Alloy Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, 1925-1932. Sales manager Harshaw Chemical Company, Chicago, 1932-1935, manager special products division, 1935-1942, manager technical sales 1942 to date.
Fel. American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Ceramic Society (chairman war service committee, 1917-1919, trustee, 1918-1920, vice president, 1923-1924, president, 1924-1925, trustee ex officio 1925-1927).
Member Am: Chemical Society (secretary Cleveland section 1919-1920), American Institute Chemical Engineers, Society Chemical Industry, Keramos, Pi Gamma Mu, Acacia, Societe de Chimie Industrielle, France.
Member Am: Chemical Society (secretary Cleveland section 1919-1920), American Institute Chemical Engineers, Society Chemical Industry, Keramos, Pi Gamma Mu, Acacia, Societe de Chimie Industrielle, France. Member Chicago Drug and Chemical Association (director) 1935-1936), Chicago Association Commerce, Central District Enamelers. Mason.; Clubs: Cleveland, University, Chagrin Valley Country, Chemists’ (New York).
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Member National Technology Salvage Advisory Committee, War Production Board.
Married Ethel Price Sherwood, September 1, 1908 (died 1935). Married second, Margaret Elizabeth Carr, 1937. Children: Sherwood, Robert James, Kate Tolbert.