Obituary

WILLIAM STANTON TWINING (A´05, M´ 13) retired engineer, Ambler, Pa., died February 8, 1937. Mr. Twining was born February 20, 1865, near Titusville, Pa., attended Cornell University, and was graduated from Allegheny College in 1887, as a civil engineer. During the 3 following years he remained at Allegheny College as an instructor in chemistry and engineering, and in 1890 entered the railway engineering department of the Thomson-Houston Company at Boston, Mass., where his work consisted of power-station design and construction. In 1901 he was engaged as assistant engineer for the Union Railway Company and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, New York, N. Y., and remained in that position until 1903, when he transferred his affiliation to the Peoples Traction Company, Philadelphia, Pa. In 1905 Mr. Twining was appointed chief engineer of that company and its successor, the Union Traction and Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company, in which position he was in general charge of all engineering work. From 1910 to 1914 he served as engineering manager for the consulting engineering firm of Ford, Bacon, and Davis, New York, N. Y. He then returned to Philadelphia to become the first director of transit of that city. Mr. Twining retired from active service in 1925.