Charles Buxton Going

Background

Going, Charles Buxton was born on April 5, 1863 in Westchester, New York, United States. Son of Charles Henry and Eliza (Buxton) Going.

Education

Bachelor of Philosophy, Columbia, 1882, honorary Master of Science, 1910.

Career

Associate editor, New York and London, 1896-1898, managing editor, 1898-1912, editor Vice-President, 1912-1915, Engineering Magazine. Editor Works Management Library, 1915-1916 (retired). Special lecturer, Columbia and Harvard, 1909-1915.

A leader in organizing Society Industrial Engineers, continuing as chairman until permanent Officers were elected, 1917.

Commissioned major, Ordnance Department, United States.R., and on special duty, Washington, 1917. Special assistant to chief ordnance officer, American Expeditionary Force, 1918.

Recommended for lieutenant colonel. Discharge, April 1919.

Cited for specially conspicuous and meritorious service” in Ordnance Department, American Expeditionary Force.

Achievements

• Charles Buxton Going has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Poetry Society America. Member Canadian Mining Institute Auth: Summer-Fallow, 1892.

Connections

Married Mary Evelyn Thompson, June 1, 1887 (died 1896). Married second, Marie Overton Corbin, December 18, 1912 (died 1925).