Some leaders of the A. I. E. E.

Louis A. Ferguson, twenty-first President of the Institute, was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, August 19, 1867. His education included several years in the Boston Public Schools and the Dorchester High School and the Electrical Engineering Course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he was graduated in 1888 with the degree of B. S. His thesis on the “Relations Between Candle Power, Voltage, and Energy Consumption of Incandescent Lamps” turned his thoughts definitely to the Central Station field and he went directly from the Institute to the underground distribution department of the Chicago Edison Company.