Kilshaw Mchenry Irwin

Background

Irwin, Kilshaw Mchenry was born on September 19, 1893 in Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Franklin Kilshaw and Mary (McHenry) Irwin.

Education

Graduate Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1912. Bachelor of Philosophy, Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, 1915.

Career

Test. engineer, B. F. Sturtevant Company, Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 1915-1916. Mechanic engineer United Gas Improvement Company, 1919-1931. Assistant to vice president in charge engineering, Philadelphia Electric Company, 1931-1945, manager engineering department, 1945-1948.

Vice president in charge engineering, 1948. Director other companies. Executive director London staff Public Utility Committee of West Palm Beach, 1944.

Membership

Served as chief machinists mate, United States Navy, 1918. Member United States coms. on steam turbines and Diesel engines. International Electrochemical Conference, Holland, 1935.

Member United States national committee of World Power Conference, since 1955, chairman, since 1958, defense electric power director Area 3, since 1958. Fellow American Society of Mechanical Engineers (chairman Philadelphia section, 1930-1931. Served chief machinists mate United States Navy 1918-1919.

Member A.I.E.E., Philadelphia Engineers. Club (president 1936-1937), Edison Electric Institute (chairman general commission on interconnection, 1939, chairman Task Group 2, sub-committee 5, committee 13, on Railway Electrification, 1955), Pennsylvania Electric Association, Franklin Institute, American Power Conference, National Exposition of Power and Mechanical Engineering, Association Edison Illuminating Companies (chairman generating committee, 1944-1946), Committee on Appraisal of Atomic Energy, Pennsylvania Elecric. Association, (chairman prime movers committee, 1923-1924), Yale Engineering Association (vice president 1942-1949), Newcomen Society, Chi Phi, Tau Beta Pi.

Clubs: Yale (Philadelphia, New York).

Connections

Married Katharine Edgar, May 31, 1919. Children: Margaret Edgar, Thomas Kilshaw.

Father:

Franklin Kilshaw Irwin

Mother:

Mary (McHenry) Irwin

Spouse:

Katharine Edgar

child:

Margaret Edgar Irwin

child:

Thomas Kilshaw Irwin