Background
Whitaker, Harry Emerson was born on August 11, 1886 in Northborough, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Nathaniel Currier and Ella Catherine (Hawes) Whitaker.
Whitaker, Harry Emerson was born on August 11, 1886 in Northborough, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Nathaniel Currier and Ella Catherine (Hawes) Whitaker.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute Technology, 1909.
Special assistant engineer, testing and developing locomotives and locomotive superheaters, New York Central Lincolnshire, 1909-1910. Engineer in experimental and development laboratory, New York Air Brake Company, Watertown, New York, 1910-1911. Engineer power betterment division, Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, 1911-1916.
Engineer, Westinghouse, Church, Kerr, Incorporated., New York City, 1916-1917.
Superintendent power generation, Western Power & Light Company, Boulder, Colorado, 1917-1918. Assistant to chief construction engineering, United States Government Explosives, New York, Nitro Smokeless Powder Plant, 1918.
With Ford, Bacon & Davis, Incorporated., New York City, 1918-1951, chief engineer, 1937-1951, director, 1941-1951, senior vice president, 1950-1951, retired. Director, vice president Ford, Bacon & Davis, South America, 1945-1951.
Retired, 1951; member of the Board of Governors, Executive Committee, ways and means committee chairman plant committee, vice president Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, New Jersey, since 1951.
Chief engineer self-liquidating construction loans Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1932-1934. Member of advisory board on utilization of surplus industrial facilities, War Department, 1944. Registered profile engineer, New York, New Jersey, O., West. Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, California, Illinois, Michigan and Massachusetts.
Member of the Board of Governors, Executive Committee, ways and means committee chairman plant committee, vice president Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, New Jersey, since 1951. Member of advisory board on utilization of surplus industrial facilities, War Department, 1944. Fellow American Society Mechanics
Engineers, American Geography Society.
Member Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania, Society American Military Engineers Army Ordnance Association, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Clubs: Engineers, Technology, City Midday.
Married Grace Lloyd Francis, May 29, 1914.