Background
Barstow, William Slocum was born on February 15, 1866 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Frank D. and Mary (Slocum) Barstow.
Barstow, William Slocum was born on February 15, 1866 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of Frank D. and Mary (Slocum) Barstow.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1887. Honorary Doctor Engineering, Stevens Institute Technology. Honorary Doctor of Science, Columbia.
1 son, Frederic Doctorate. With Edison Machine Works, Schenectady, New York, Paterson, New Jersey, New York and Brooklyn, 1887-1889. Assistant superintendent, 1889-1890, general superintendent and chief engineer, 1890-1897, general manager, 1897-1901, Edison Electric Illuminating Company, Brooklyn. Consultant electrical engineer, 1901-1906.
Practiced as West. South. Barstow & Company, Incorporated., 1906-1912.
Organizer, 1912, General Gas & Electric Corporation and president until 1929. Now senior partner Barstow, Campbell & Company.
President Thomas Alva Edison Foundation, Incorporated. Trustee Stevens Institute Technology.
Fellow American Institute Electrical Engineers; member Electrical Society (ex-president), Illuminating Engineering Society, Edison Pioneers (president 8 years, then honorary president), American Electro-chemists Society, United Engineering Societies (library board.
Member Executive Committee).
Clubs: Columbia University, Lawyers, Engineers, University, Delta Upsilon, North. Hempstead Country, Manhasset Bay Yacht, New York Yacht.
Married Françoise M. Duclos, October 4, 1894.
