Howard Watson Ambruster

Background

Ambruster, Howard Watson was born on August 12, 1878 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Watson and Emma Elizabeth (Earley) Ambruster.

Education

Educated Germantown Academy, 1887-1894, University of Pennsylvania, 1894-1898. Bachelor of Science in economics, University of Pennsylvania, 1939.

Career

Reporter Philadelphia Eve. Telegraph, 1896-1897. Football coach Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1898.

Clerk clearing house, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, 1899.

Construction engineer Virginia Portland Cement Company, Craigsville, Virginia, 1900. Editorial writer, exchange editor Philadelphia Times, 1904.

Secretary, director General Artificial Silk Company, Philadelphia, 1902-1904. With rayon, textile and chemical industries, 1905-1912.

Organizer, secretary and director Frohman Chemical Company, Sandusky, O., 1913-1918.

General manager Hemingway & Company, Bound Brook, New Jersey, 1919-1921. Member board operators Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, 1920. Made survey World’s arsenic supply in relation to boll weevil control, 1921.

Builder, reorganizer various plants, consultant to arsenical industries, United States and abroad, also on industrial and governmental problems, since 1921.

Appeared before varied groups, including Congressional consultant and grand juries, appealing for better enforcement of food, drug, false advertising and anti-trust laws, for investigation German cartel influences in the United States, as lecturer before nationally known civil groups, also Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, other colleges, since 1927.

Achievements

• Howard Watson Ambruster has been listed as a notable author, lecturer, columnist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member board operators Sherwin-Williams Company, Cleveland, 1920. Made survey World’s arsenic supply in relation to boll weevil control, 1921. Member 7th Regiment, New York Neuropsychology Group, 1918-1919.

Member Crop Protection Institute of National Research Council, Franklin Institute, American Chemical Society, American Pharmaceutical Association, American Academy Political and Social Science.

Clubs: Chemists, Drug and Chemical (New York City).

Connections

Married Florence Ursula Favreau, June 15, 1919. Children: Watson II, Joseph (deceased), Albert (deceased).

Father:

Watson Ambruster

Mother:

Emma Elizabeth (Earley) Ambruster

Spouse:

Florence Ursula Favreau

child:

Albert Ambruster (deceased)

child:

Watson II Ambruster

child:

Joseph Ambruster (deceased)