Background
Fahnestock, James Murray was born on December 16, 1885 in Pittsburgh. Son of Thomas Howe and Mary Heron (Thompson) Fahnestock.
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James Murray Fahnestock
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Student Carnegie Institute Technology, 1908-1909. U. Pittsburgh, 1912-1913.
Career
Draftsman, Crucible Steel Company, 1909-1912. Technical editor, Motor Cycling Magazine, 1912-1913. Assistant service manager, Pittsburgh branch, Ford Motor Company.
Free lance writer, Motor Age, et cetera, 1914-1918.
Technical editor, Ford Power Age Magazine, 1923-1928. Editor Ford Field Magazine, 1929-1956, special writer, Ford Motor Company, 1932-1933.
Director engineering, Leaf Spring Institute, Detroit, 1943-1955, also speaker and writer on automotive spring suspensions. Company-ordinator charge series half-hour television program on Your Carolina on WQED, Pittsburgh, 1957-1958, 59-69.
Instructor Army automotive mechanics, lecturer mechanics in Army, U. Pittsburgh, 1918.
Achievements
Membership
Member National Society Automotive Engineers (councilor, 1939-1940, chairman Pittsburgh section 1933). Club: Pittsburgh Figure Skating. Feature articles on early autos in newspapers and magazines
Connections
Married Hazel Margaret Alberts, June 6, 1925. Children: Lois Kay, Jean Howe, James Murray.
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April 28, 1969 (aged 83) -
Resting place
Buried Union Dale Cemetery, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. -
Nationality
American -
Religion
Presbyterian