Austin Burt

Background

Burt, Austin was born on June 20, 1870 in at Detroit. Son of Horace Eldon and Lillie (Higgins) Burt.

Education

G.g.s. William Austin Burt, inventor of solar compass. Studied University of Wisconsin and University of Minnesota. Mechanical Engineering, Cornell Univercity, 1900.

Career

Manager Cedar Falls (Iowa) Electric Light Company, 1900-1902, Waterloo & Cedar Falls Gas & Electric Company, 1902-1905. General superintendent, 1905-1911, manager, 1912, Citizens Gas & Electric Company, Waterloo and Cedar Falls. V.-p. Waterloo Public Library.

President Waterloo Board of Education.

Achievements

• Austin Burt has been listed as a noteworthy electrical engineer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow American Institute Electrical Engineers, 1912; member American Gas Institute (director), Iowa Electrical Association (past president), Iowa Gas.

Association (past president), Iowa History Society, Sons of the American Revolution (president Bunker Hill Chapter), Sigma Xi, Phi Gamma Delta.

Mason, Knights of Pythias. Clubs: Country, Town Criers (Waterloo), Rotary, University (Chicago).

Connections

Married Mary Ellen Bartlett, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, January 18, 1898.

Father:

Horace Eldon Burt

Mother:

Lillie (Higgins) Burt

Spouse:

Mary Ellen Bartlett