Background
Thum, Ernest Edgar was born on November 20, 1884 in Harrisonville, Missouri, United States. Son of Otto Frederick and Ella (Willson) Thum.
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Ernest Edgar Thum
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Engineer of Mines, Colorado School of Mines.
Career
Field engineer Anaconda (Montana) Copper Mining Company, 1906-1908. Chief civil engineer International Smelting and Refining Company, Tooele, Utah, 1908-1910. Engineer in charge of construction Great Falls (Montana) Reduction Department, Anaconda Copper Mining Company, 1910-1914.
Professor of metallurgy, U. Cincinnati, 1915-1917.
Associate editor Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, 1917-1923. Organizer and manager technical publicity department Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation, 1923-1927.
Principal associate editor The Iron Age, 1927-1930. Editor Metal Progress, journal American Society for Metals.
Cleveland, 1930-1958. editor-in-chief, 1958-1960, director of editorial services, 1961.
Achievements
Membership
Member of the advisory committee industrial information, A.E.C., since 1949, chairman, 1956-1960. Member British Institute Metals, Society Business Magazine. Club: Rowfant (Cleveland).
Connections
Married Clara Buchanan Orr, September 18, 1907 (deceased). Married second, Margaret East. Sandt, November 8, 1948. Children: Margaret (Mistress Herbert Peck), Dorothy Frances, Frederick Charles, Robert Dudley.
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Religion
Episcopalian