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Edwin T. Douglass: Director Eastern
Grain Mill and Elevator Corporation, Manager The Concrete Elevator
Businessmen -- New York (State) -- Buffalo 1913
The ship
Edwin T. Douglas(s)
was named for him.
He was:
• a Governor of the New York
State Nautical School: Edwin T. Douglas, of Buffalo, a member of the
Buffalo Chamber of Commerce in 1913.
• manager in charge of
vessel operations in 1916 (? in Merton)
• a member of the Citizens' advisory committee of the city of
Buffalo c1926
• General manager, New York, of the Western
Transit Co. C1910
In 1923, Edwin T. Douglas of the Douglas Agency
Corporation, grain handlers, [says] that during the past season more
than 24,000,000 bushels of grain have been shipped to Montreal from
Buffalo via the Welland Canal and the New York State Barge Canal took
18,000,000 bushels of grain to New York from Buffalo.
In the company's [Eastern Grain, Milling and Elevator Company,
of Buffalo] charter, it was stated that John J. Rammacher was
president, George J. Grammer was secretary, and Norman B. Macpherson
was treasurer, with Fred Wood, of Port Colborne, as Canadian
manager. If so, the list of directors did not remain the same for
long. According to Canadian press reports, the "original" officers
of the company were Nisbet Grammer, president; John J. Rammacher,
vice-president and treasurer; Edwin T. Douglass,
vice-president, and Norman B. Macpherson, secretary. H. H. Goode of
the Ca nadian Furnace Company, Port Colborne, was the Canadian
representative of the firm.
The Eastern Steamship Company was formed to take grain
from the elevators at Buffalo and Port Colborne and move it down
through the small locks of the old Welland and St. Lawrence
canals. The company's owners, however, were not experienced in
the running of steamships and, accordingly, the fleet was
managed for them by Boland and Cornelius, of Buffalo, which also
managed the operation of some U . S. -flag upper lake steamers
which also were owned by Grammer and his associates. The Eastern
Steamship Company Limited was to own 21 canallers during its
relatively short period of operation. The ships spent most of
their time taking down to St. Lawrence River ports the grain
that had been brought to Buffalo and Port Colborne by upper lake
carriers, but they carried significant amounts of coal as well.
They frequently return ed up the lakes with cargoes of pulpwood.
The first ships owned by the new company comprised a
group of ten steam powered canallers which were ordered from
various United Kingdom shipyards on December 22, 1922. The
contract price for each vessel was $330, 000 and all of the
construction took place under the supervision of A. B. Mackay.
This gentleman was an entrepreneur who for many years
had been involved in the shipping business at Hamilton, Ontario,
but at the time of his involve ment with the Eastern Steamship
boats, he was a resident of Great Britain.
Mackay reportedly dealt on behalf of Eastern with
Messrs. H. E. Moss and Company, of Liverpool, who were
represented by one Mr. A. G. Jones, and the contracts were let
to five British yards, each of which was to construct two
steamers. These vessels, named FRANK B. BAIRD, NORMAN P.
CLEMENT, WILLIAM H. DANIELS, EDWIN T. DOUGLASS,
ALBERT C. FIELD, NISBET GRAMMER, JUDGE HART, WATKINS F. NISBET,
ROBERT W. POMEROY and JOHN J. RAMMACHER, all were built during
1923, and proved to be very successful in their designated lake
and river trades.
So successful were they that, in 1924, Eastern placed
the first orders for what eventually would be eleven more canal
steamers to be built in two Uni ted Kingdom yards.
Source: Our Ontario
The following may contain an element of truth but mostly appear to
be fiction - or another person.
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Edwin T. Douglas was an American inventor who is best known
for his invention of the Douglas Electrical Transmission System,
which was a significant advancement in the field of electrical
power transmission. This system was used to transmit electricity
over long distances more efficiently than previous methods, and
it played a key role in the development of the modern electrical
power grid.
Douglas was born in 1867 in Massachusetts and began his career
as an electrical engineer working for General Electric. He later
founded his own company, the Douglas Electric Company, which
focused on developing and commercializing his transmission
system.
In addition to his work on the transmission
system, Douglas also made important contributions to other areas
of electrical engineering, including the development of the
first practical high-frequency generator and the design of a new
type of transformer.
Douglas died in 1947, but his
contributions to the field of electrical engineering continue to
have an impact today.
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The ship Edwin T.
Douglass was named after Edwin T. Douglass, a prominent
businessman and politician from the state of Maine. Douglass was
a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1883
to 1885 and later served as the Governor of Maine from 1889 to
1893. The ship was built in 1903 by the Bath Iron Works in Bath,
Maine, and was used for transporting cargo and passengers
between the United States and South America.
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The ship Edwin
T. Douglass was named for a prominent businessman and politician
from the state of Massachusetts in the United States. Edwin T.
Douglass was born in 1841 and served as a member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1873 to 1874. He was
also involved in the shipping industry and was a partner in the
firm of E.T. Douglass & Company. The ship was likely named for
him as a tribute to his contributions to both business and
politics in his home state.
