Background
Arms, John Heyl Raser was born on February 28, 1888 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Augustus Nice and Celeste Stoughton (Raser) Arms.
Arms, John Heyl Raser was born on February 28, 1888 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Augustus Nice and Celeste Stoughton (Raser) Arms.
Educated Pingry School, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1905. Mechanic engineering, Cornell Univercity, 1909.
1 son, Leonard Theodore. Instructor Rochester (New York) schools, 1909-1910. Coordinating engineer American Wood Working Machinery Company, 1907-1913.
Production control for Warner Brothers Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1914-1915.
Consultant in production control, 1915-1917. Assistant to executive vice president and in charge of personnel and plant operation Manufacturing Company of America, Philadelphia, 1919-1924.
Dealer service organization, Miller Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio, 1924-1925. Management consultant for various corporations, 1925-1933.
Partner Arms & Madeheim, engineers, 1930-1934.
Special agent United States and New Jersey Department of Labor, Employment Service, 1931-1933. Secretary, general manager United Engineering Trustees, Incorporated., since 1933. Secretary The Engineering Foundation from 1937.
Assistant secretary John Fritz Medal Fund Corporation, 1935-1939.
Secretary John Fritz Medal Board of Award from 1939. Treasurer Daniel Guggenheim Medal Fund, Incorporated., 1935-1939, director, 1937-1939, and from 1940, secretary from 1944.
In selective service division United States War Department, Philadelphia, 1918, World War. Instructor and special examiner first aid and life saving, American Red Cross, 1927-1935.
Director Oranges and Maplewood chapter.
Instructor in first aid New York chapter, 1940-1945. Director Employment Conference Oranges & Maplewood Welfare Federation, 1930-1933.
Member A.S.M.E., Institute Aeronautical Sciences, Automobile Old Timers, Society Colonial Wars, Pennsylvania Society South.R., Music Educators Association of New Jersey, Zeta Psi. Mason (Shriner).; Clubs: Engineers, Scarsdale (New York) Golf.
Married December 1913, Edith Lucia Wilkinson (deceased). Married December 1929, Mary Darley Tucker (deceased). Children: Robert (deceased), Richard Philip.