Edgar Morton Hastings

Background

Hastings, Edgar Morton was born on May 5, 1882 in Lutherville, Maryland, United States. Son of Robert John and Ada (Heilig) Hastings.

Education

Student Baltimore City College, 1899-1900, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, 1901-1902. Honorary alumnus Virginia Military Institute.

Career

And West Virginia, 1901-1903. R.F.&P. Railroad Company, Virginia, 1903-1906, resident engineer, 1906-1920, principal assistant engineer, 1920-1922, chief engineer in charge of all engineering, design, construction signals, communications, since 1922. Director Richmond Land Corporation Cons.

China Aid Program, Survey Mission to China, 1948. Past chairman Richmond planning committee and board of zoning appeals.

Politics

There is a large range of issues where Church should interact with politics in such areas as poverty and inequality, environmental issues, nuclear and chemical weapons and the harm caused by use of drugs and drinking.

Views

Church members should be close and caring to feel each other's pains and problems. The good of the whole body of the Christian society should be put before individual needs.

Membership

Member National Technology Advisory Committee, since 1940. Director and president Richmond Home for Ladies, since 1935. Member American Society of Civil Engineers (president 1947), American Railway Engineer Association (president 1939-1940), American Society Testing Materials, National Society Professional Engineers, Engineers Joint Council (1947-1948).

Mason.; Clubs: Engineers, Hampton Roads, Central Virginia (past president), Virginia Peninsula, Lions.

Connections

Married Carmen Robertson, February 27, 1908. Children: Edgar M., David C. Rod and instrument man, Bang and Olufsen R.R., Western Pennsylvania.

Father:

Robert John Hastings

Mother:

Ada (Heilig) Hastings

Spouse:

Carmen Robertson

child:

Bang and Olufsen R.R. Hastings

child:

David C. Rod and instrument man Hastings

child:

Edgar M. Hastings

child:

Western Pa Hastings