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Frank Whitney Smith (A 19O5, M 1912) retired president of the Consolidated Edison Company of New York (N.Y.), Inc., died July 22, 1946. Born in Alden, New York, June 16, 1867, Mr. Smith traced his ancestry to Sir Francis Drake, Elizabethan admiral and explorer. Another ancestor fought with the Continental Army. Mr. Smith commenced his utility career as office boy for the United States Illuminating Company, New York, in 1880, three months alter Edison's invention of the incandescent lamp. Three years later he became general clerk and in 1889 general paymaster of the company's successor, the United Electric Light and Power Company. Thereafter he served as assistant of assistant was and secretary of the company. He was elected a director in 1902 and secretary of the Brush Electric Illuminating Company in 1905. He was named vice-president in 1912 and general manager in 1916. He was elected chairman of the board of directors of the New York and Queens Electric Light and Power Company in 1926 and in 1929 president of the Brush Electric Illuminating Company. In 1931 he became vice-president of the New York Edison Company and in 1932 president. He continued in that position after the Consolidated Edison Company of New York was incorporated until he retired in 1937. He was at one time president of the Brooklyn Edison Company. For many years he was director of the Edison Company, the Westchester Lighting Company, the Yonkers Electric Light and Power Company, the Consolidated Telegraph and Electrical Subways Companies, and the New York Steam and Tarrytown Terminal Corporation. He held various offices in the now defunct National Electric Light Association. He was president of the Electric Vehicle Association of America in 1923. With H. C. Cushing, Jr., he was author of the Electric Vehicle Hand-book." He was a number of the Electrical Association of New York, the New York Electrical Society, and the Engineers' Club of New York. He was a trustee of the Northwestern Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company and the Waldorf Astoria Corporation.

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