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

Paul Martyn Lincoln, from 1914–1915 twenty seventh president of the A. I. E. E., was born Jan. 1, 1870 in Norwood, Michigan. In 1880 the family moved to Painsville, Ohio, through the high schools of which town Mr. Lincoln received his early schooling. In land, convinced him that his capabilities inclined more to the technical than the classical and upon completion of one year at the Western Reserve University, he entered degree of M. E. in Electrical Engineering June 1892. Immediately upon the close of his final semester, he engaged with the Short Electric Company, of Cleveland, house Electric and Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh, to take up important work for them. Two and a half years later he was chosen electrical superintendent in charge of the water power development of Niagara Falls for the Niagara Falls Power Company. This was the beginning of modern hydroelectric development, and the amount of power generated, transmitted and distributed by this first plant was so far in excess of any thing accomplished up to that date as to make it unique, with new problems involved in its progress constantly arising to be solved. In 1902, Mr. Lincoln returned to the Westinghouse Company and for six years was in charge of their Power Division of the Engineering Department. 1910 he was appointed general engineer for the Company, in which capacity he served until he tendered his resignation in 1919.