Background
Bridge, James Howard was born on May 8, 1856 in Manchester, England. Son of Richard and Margaret (Bibby) Bridge.
Bridge, James Howard was born on May 8, 1856 in Manchester, England. Son of Richard and Margaret (Bibby) Bridge.
Educated Grand Lycee, Marseilles (Universite de France), 1877.
Engaged in newspaper work in England. Private secretary to Herbert Spencer, 1879-1884. Came to the United States, 1884.
Literary assistant to Andrew Carnegie, 1884-1889. Editor Overland Monthly, 1896-1900. Editor Commerce and Industry, New York, New York, 1902-1903.
Curator of Frick Art Collection, 1914-1928. Inventor, patentee Howard Bridge system of water purification by electricity. Author: A Fortnight in Heaven, 1886.
Uncle Sam at Home, 1888. The Trust—Its Book, 1902. History of Carnegie Steel Company, 1903.
Ozone Treatment of Public Water Supplies, 1905. Ozone—Its Nature, Production and Uses, 1907. Purification of Public Water Supplies, 1908.
Portraits and Personalities in the Frick Galleries, 1929. Millionaires and Grub Street—Comrades and Contacts in the Last Half Century, 1931. Co-editor of Liber Scriptorum, Second, 1919-1921.
Home: Scarsdale, New York.
Married second, Clara Blake, June 2, 1913.