WILLARD COPE BRINTON — AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENTS Harvard College Class of 1907 Secretary's Reports (1913, 1917, 1922) Source: Internet Archive digitized scans of Harvard University Press printings Born: December 22, 1880, West Chester, Pennsylvania Parents: Samuel Lewis and Elizabeth (Smith) Brinton Family home: "The Lindens," West Chester, Pa. (Pennsylvania Quaker family) Brother: Clement B. B…

Permanent address, Harvard Club, New York, N. Y. Is a mechanical engineer. Writes (verbatim): "After graduation went to Pittsburgh with the Westinghouse Electric Co. Spent three years there in interesting special work, involving engineering and executive problems in every department of the works. Planned and installed a new building, arranged to treat by special processes some eighty kinds of by-…

"Am a member of the City Club's 'Committee on the Development of the Port.' "In odd moments I am writing a series of articles on graphic statistics to appear in the Engineering Magazine. A book on 'Graphic Statistics' is about ready to go to press. This book contains over one hundred and fifty charts and diagrams as a suggestion toward universally standard methods of making figures and quantitati…

I am planning to go on the trip, though I hate to miss the good doings of the 1907 Sexennial." ============================================================= 4th REPORT (DECENNIAL, 1917) — pp. 43-44 https://archive.org/details/1907report04harvuoft ============================================================= WILLARD COPE BRINTON Born at West Chester, Pa., Dec. 22, 1880. Parents: Samuel Lewis, Eli…

To say the least, I had enough of German banquets on that trip to be sufficient for a lifetime. At the close of the official German trip I visited a friend who was chief engineer of the Italian Westinghouse Company near Genoa, and then spent a month investigating harbor facilities, water front freight terminals, etc., of most of the main continental and English seaports. One result of this work on…

Among various incidents of the trip were a Japanese banquet in stocking-feet sitting on the floor, partaking of raw fish, etc., and a day under investigation as a spy because of my interest in taking photographs of freight handling facilities in a Japanese harbor. On my way home I spent about two weeks in the Pacific coast cities and included a trip up Mt. Rainier, two days of horse backing in Ari…

Last September an illustrated talk was given before the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce on the subject 'Graphics for the Business Man.' "I am Chairman of the Joint Committee on Standards for Graphic Presentation, composed of one representative from each of nineteen American scientific societies of national scope; and a member of the Council of the Association of Harvard Engineers." Publications: a…

Address includes "Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y." Writes (verbatim — the only time Brinton wrote about the Croton property in his own voice): "Recreation time has been, during the last year or so, largely devoted to getting into reasonable shape one hundred acres or so of Westchester County hills at Croton-on-Hudson, having one of the best views of the Hudson River and the Highlands. During 1920 my wif…

============================================================= REPORTS NOT DIGITIZED ============================================================= 6th Report (Vicennial, 1927) 7th Report (Thirtieth Anniversary, 1937) 8th Report (1942) 9th Report (1947) 10th Report (Forty-fifth, 1952) 11th Report (Fiftieth Anniversary, 1957 — posthumous memorial for Brinton) Held at: Harvard University Archives, P…