Background
Fox, Edwin Gordon was born on January 1, 1887 in Milwaukee. Son of Edwin M. and Frances K. (Gordon) Fox.
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Edwin Gordon Fox
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Bachelor of Science, University of Wisconsin, 1908.
Career
Service engineer, later sales engineer General Electrical Company, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1908-1914. Engineer in charge electrical design Steel & Tube Company of America, Indiana Harbor, Indiana, 1914-1920.
Electrical engineer Freyn Engineering Company, consultant engineers, Chicago, 1920-1934, vice president, 1934-1951.
Vice president Koppers Company, Incorporated. (which acquired former company) and operating manager Freyn department from 1951.
Engineering work (steel industry) in Soviet Union as member group of engineers supplied by Freyn Engineering Company, 1928-1933, in Holland, 1939, Colombia, South America, 1948, 1950.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow American Institute of Elctrical Engineering. Member Association Iron and Steel Engineers, Western Society Engineers (president 1940), British Iron and Steel Institute, Phi Gamma Delta. Clubs: Chicago Engineers, South Shore Country, University (Chicago).
Connections
Married Erma Wohlenberg, November 13, 1913.
