Electrical Supply Jobbers Assoc. 1903 group picture includes Dan Hemingray

[Trade Journal]

Publication: Electrical Merchandising

New York, NY, United States
vol. 29, no. 5, p. 3377, col. 1-3

Looking Backwards in Electrical History The E. S. J. A. of Twenty Years Ago

One day, twenty years ago, on the Detroit River flats there was exhibited before the camera the most splendid aggregation of electrical men ever thus far seen in cap­tivity. “Step up, gentlemen, and pick your favorites!" Look at them again individually this month at the jobbers' meeting at Hot Springs, Va., and note the evidences of progress. In the picture they are, first row, left to right, H. B. Kirkland, American Wiremold Company, Hartford, Conn.; Nel­son Catabish, National Carbon Company, Cleveland; R. C. P. Holmes (deceased), Chicago Edison Company, Chicago; C. E. Corrigan, National Metal Molding Com­pany, Pittsburgh; Robert Garland, Safety Armorite Conduit Company; A. T. Clark (deceased), American Circular Loom Company; Daniel G. [sic] C. Hemingray (deceased) Hemingray Glass Company; E. K. Paton (deceased), Bryant Electric Company.

Second row, Judge Debevoise, J. H. Parker, next unidentified, William H. Nolkar, Commercial Electric Supply Company, St. Louis; Al Smith (deceased). Keevin & Smith, Milwaukee; W. W. Low, Electric Appliance Company, Chicago; L. K. Cush­ing, Illinois Electric Company; Charles E. Messer, Dearborn Electric Company, Chi­cago; James Clark, Jr. Louisville, Ky.

Third row, General Secretary Franklin Overbaugh, W. H. Hartwig, Hartwig Elec­tric Company, Detroit, Mich.; Milton Mill (deceased), Ewing-Merkel Electric Com­pany, St. Louis, Mo.; W. M. Deming, Elec­tric Supply Company, Memphis, Tenn.; George W. Johnston, Mid-West Electric Company, Omaha, Neb.; F. M. Bernardin, B-R Electric Company, Kansas City, Mo.; next unidentified; George A. Gray (in Panama hat), George A. Gray Company, San Francisco; John Erner (deceased), Erner Electric Company, Cleveland; A. S. Doxsee (deceased), (in white felt hat), St. Louis, Mo.

Fourth row, H. L. Walker, Detroit; next unidentified; James B. McCarty, editor, “Electro-Craft”; I. A. Bennett, Chicago, Thomas Grier, Chicago; C. H. Talmage, Western Electric Company, Omaha; James Wolff (deceased), New York Insulated Wire Company, Chicago; next unidentified; A. N. Palmer (black mustache, light bow tie), Phillips Insulated Wire Company, Paw­tucket; next unidentified; W. A. Hopkins, Jr., (deceased), Erner & Hopkins, Columbus.

Fifth row, B. B. Downs (standing di­rectly behind H. L. Walker), wife and child, St. Paul Electric Company, St. Paul; next unidentified; Mr. Hodge, Hodge-Walsh Electric Company, Kansas City; represent­ative of Nungesser Batter Company; Sam Glover (in soft white hat, with mustache), Post-Glover Electric Company, Cincinnati; Henry Schwab, Monarch Electric & Wire Company; Fred Phillips (in derby), Rob­erts Electric Supply Company, Syracuse; M. B. Austin, M. B. Austin, Chicago; Charles Flach (deceased), American Con­duit Mfg. Company, Pittsburgh; Arthur Loeb, Loeb Electric Company, Columbus; Walter Ambos, manufacturers’ agent, Cleveland; R. V. Scudder (deceased), Wesco Supply Company, St. Louis; M. Lucas (in derby), Marion Wire Company.