Background
Meredith was born to Eugene Meredith and Gertrude Burlingame Meredith in 1892. He was a grandson of diplomat Anson Burlingame and a cousin of author Roger Burlingame.
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Meredith graduated from the Morristown School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Morristown, New Jersey in 1910. He then attended Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts from 1910 to 1913.
Career
Meredith served as the founding owner and operator of WSYR-Department of Administration and Management, the second oldest radio station in Syracuse, New New York He also assisted the Federal Radio Commission with the developing a means to reduce electromagnetic interference between radio stations. Meredith later participated in the Harvard Club of New New York
On September 15, 1922, Meredith launched the first broadcast of WMAC, the precursor to WSYR, from his home in Cazenovia, New New York
The broadcast featured music from nationally known harpist Melville Clark. Meredith continued operating the station until 1928.
In 1927, he devised a plan for unified control of carrier frequencies for radio stations. This plan informed work by the Federal Radio Commission to reduce electromagnetic interference.
The following year, Meredith organized WSYR"s participation in a national wavelength synchronization experiment for the commission.
WMAC partnered with four other stations: WTMJ-Department of Administration and Management in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, KPRC-Department of Administration and Management in Houston, Texas, WODA-Department of Administration and Management in Paterson, New Jersey, and WGD-Department of Administration and Management in New York City. Meredith also operated an amateur radio station named 8-AQO. In 1922, the station participated in a transatlantic test of the American Radio Relay League. lieutenant was one of 13 radio stations heard by listeners in both England and France.
In 1917, Meredith attended the officers" training camp for the United States. Army in Plattsburgh, New New York
After he received a commission of second lieutenant in the infantry, he served at Fort Dix, a military facility near Trenton, New Jersey. In 1918, Meredith transferred to the 307th Machine Gun Battalion of the 78th Infantry Division.
He later joined the Aviation Section of the Army Signal Corps as a second lieutenant and sailed for France to serve in World War I on February 26, 1918. Meredith served at the headquarters of the United States. Army Air Service and then as an officer in charge of supply train.
During the summer, Meredith returned to infantry.
The United States. Army detailed him to the headquarters of the 41st Division and then to the 2nd Machine Gun Battalion of the 1st Infantry Division. Following the conclusion of World War I, Meredith served with the Army of Occupation during the Occupation of the Rhineland. On October 4, 1913, Meredith married Alice Louise Abbott Meredith.
They later divorced.
