Background
Lovell, Ralph L. was born on August 2, 1865 in Millbury, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William L. and Jane E. (Harris) Lovell.
Lovell, Ralph L. was born on August 2, 1865 in Millbury, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William L. and Jane E. (Harris) Lovell.
Mechanical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1888.
1 son, Frederick H. With General Electric Company, Lynn, 1888-1894. With Newport News Shipbuilding Company, 1894-1904. Assistant chief engineer, 1904-1910, chief engineer, 1910-1914, Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Massachusetts.
Consulting engineer and patent expert, 1914-1916.
Marine engineer with Theodore East. Ferris, naval architect and engineer, New York, 1916-1917. Chief engineer United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, Washington and Philadelphia, 1917-1919.
President Adams, Lovell & Burlingham, consulting marine engineers, New York, 1919-1922. Engineer with Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1924-1929.
Began with United Dry Docks, Incorporated.
Staten Island, New York, 1929, became chief engineer Chief engineer Bethlehem Steel Company, shipbuilding director, Staten Island Works, 1938-1942 (retired). Now in consultant work at home.
Home: 6 Greaves Place, Cranford, New Jersey.
Married Mission M. L. Brackett, June 24, 1896.