Background
Glasgow, Arthur Graham was born on May 30, 1865 in Buchanan Virginia. Son of Francis Thomas and Anne Jane (Gholson) Glasgow.
Glasgow, Arthur Graham was born on May 30, 1865 in Buchanan Virginia. Son of Francis Thomas and Anne Jane (Gholson) Glasgow.
Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute Technology, 1885. East.D., 1928; Doctor of Science, Washington and Lee University, 1930. Doctor of Laws, Wabash College, 1950: married Margaret Elizabeth Branch, 1901.
Joined United Gas Improvement Company, 1885.
Secreatry and manager Lewiston (Maine) Gas Light Company, 1886. Engineer Kansas Missouri Gas Light & Coke Company, 1888: general inspector The United Gas Improvement Company, 1890.
General manager and chief engineer Standard Gas Light Company of City of New York, 1891. Established firm of Humphreys & Glasgow, London, England., 1892, now Chairman of the Board.
Installations of Humphreys-Glasgow plant and processes aggregate daily capacity over 2,500 millions cubic foot, chairman and president Building Supplies Corporation Norfolk, Virginia, Chairman United States Delaware World’s Gas Congress, Paris, 1900.
Chairman Committee on Electrolysis of America Gas Light Association, 1903-1906. Representative American Gas at Paris Conference for Standardizing Threads, 1908. Vice chairman Red Cross Mission to Rumania, 1917.
With United States War Department, Washington, France and England, 1918.
Fixed-nitrogen administrator, United States War Department (established United States Fixed-Nitrogen Laboratory, now administered by Department of Agriculture), 1919. President Alumni Association of Stevens Institute Technology, 1906, alumni trustee, 1907-1910, now special life trustee, recipient Alumni Award 1951.
General manager and chief engineer Delaware World’s Gas Congress, Paris, 1900. President Alumni Association of Stevens Institute Technology
Clubs: Metropolitan (Washington, District of Columbia).