Background
MacELWEE, Roy Samuel was born on April 12, 1883 in Parkville, Michigan, United States. Son of Revolution Samuel J. and Anna Bell (Mozino) MacElwee.
MacELWEE, Roy Samuel was born on April 12, 1883 in Parkville, Michigan, United States. Son of Revolution Samuel J. and Anna Bell (Mozino) MacElwee.
Public Schools; Hudson River Military Academy. Private School, Berlin, Ger. Columbia University, Bachelor of Science, Technische Hoch Schule.
University of Berlin, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy. University of Halle; University of Marburg.
Clerk, salesman, branch manager, Eastman Kodak Company, International Harvester and Otis Elevator companies in European cities, 1899-1914. Chief clerk United States Consulate General, Berlin, 1915. Lecturer on economics and foreign trade, port and terminal engineering, Columbia, 1916-1919.
Professor School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, 1919, dean, 1921-1922. Professor College of Charleston, 1923, South Carolina. Military College (Citadel), 1927.
Assistant military instructor Columbia University Training Corps, 1917. Commissioned First lieutenant R.R. Transportation Corps of United States: Army, February 12, 1918. Served as aide to General Goethals.
Major since 1922; Lieutenant colonel S.P.O.R.C. Agent Federal Board Voc. Education, 1918; 2d and 1st assistant director and director United States Bureau Foreign and Domestic Commerce, January 1, 1919-March 31, 1921.
Chairman United States Economic Liasion Committee. Chairman United States Interdepartment Committee for Commercial Aviation, 1919-1921. Member Committee for Commercial Use of Army Bases.
Commissioner of Port of Charleston, South Carolina., 1923-1930. Vice president (for South Carolina) Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association, National Rivers and Harbors Congress. Director Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association, American bureau of Shipping.
Delegate of the United States to 14th International Navigation Congress, Cairo, Egypt, 1926. Lecturer European universities, engineering societies, and chambers of commerce, Paris and Berlin, 1926.
Member, National. Highway Council. Chairman, Interdepartmental Committee for the promotion of Commercial Aviation. United States Delegate to International Navigation Congress, Cairo, Egypt, 1926.
Professor Dean. Georgetown U. School of Foreign Service, 1919-1923. Commissioner of Port Development. Charleston, South Carolina.
1923-1930. Vice-President., South Carolina National. Rivers and Harbors Congress. Vice-President., Great Lakes St. Lawrence Tidewater Association Vice-President., Atlantic Deeper Waterways Association Chairman, Navy League.
Member, firm MacElwee and Crandall, consulting Engineers, Industrial and Civil, Cambridge, Mass, and New York City Author: Ports and Terminal Facilities, Port Development. Wharf Management, Stevedoring and Storage (with Taylor). Training for the Steamship Business.
Training for Foreign Trade. Economic Aspects of Great Lakes. Paperwork in Export Trade (with Snider and Maul).
St. Lawrence Ship Channel (with Ritter). Translated Hans Delbruck’s Government, and the Will of the People. Wesen and Entwicklung der Hamburger Hafenbaupolitik.
The Ports of Rumania. The Great Ship Canals. Port Glossary; also numerous articles.
Decorations: Officer, Polonia Restituta. Commander. Crown of Rumania. Chevalier, Crown of Italy.
Officer, Leopold II, Belgium. Member: Society of Terminal Engineers. Society American Military Engineers.
American Society Mechanical Engineers. Affiliated American Society Civil Engineers. Verein Deutscher Tngenieure.
Hafenbautechnische Gesellschaft. American Bureau of Shipping. Societe Internationale des Routes.
Association Permanente des Congress de Navigation. American Association of Port Authorities. United States Chamber of Commerce.
Clubs: University (Washington, District of Columbia). Whitehall, Columbia; Theta Delta Chi, Fencers (New York City), Army and Navy, Military Order of World War (Boston), Amihegeon, 40 & 8.
Married Ellen Mohlau, 1912. Married second, Sarah Smyrl, 1923. Children: Anne Frances, Roy Samuel, Sarah Margaret.