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GEORGE
CLINTON WARD
George
Clinton Ward, widely known utility executive of Los Angeles, is president of
the Southern California Edison Company, with which he has been identified in an
official capacity during the past sixteen years. He was born at White Plains, New York,
January 9, 1863, a son of James and Elizabeth (Ennis) Ward, and graduated from
the Phillips Academy at Andover, Massachusetts, with the class of 1882. His scholarly attainments won for him the
honorary degrees of Doctor of Engineering and Doctor of Science, the former
conferred by the University of California in 1927, while the latter was
bestowed upon him by Oberlin College in 1928.
Mr.
Ward started with the engineering corps of the New York, West Shore &
Buffalo Railroad in 1882. During the
period from 1884 to 1902 he was with various railroads as assistant engineer
and chief engineer, engaged in preliminary surveys, location and construction
work. He had charge of the waterworks properties
of the Huntington’s in Ohio from 1902 until 1905, when he came to California in
their interests, and was vice president and general manager of the Huntington
Land & Improvement Company from 1905 to 1912. He resigned to become vice president of the
Pacific Light & Power Corporation, which he represented for five years in
that capacity. In 1917 he was elected
vice president of the Southern California Edison Company, later assuming the
duties of executive vice president, and since October, 1932, has controlled the
destiny of the company, introducing new and improved methods of management
which have made this unique among the public utilities of the world. He is a member of the American Institute of
Electrical Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the
California, Jonathan and Sunset Clubs.
At
Boonville, New York, on September 15, 1886, Mr. Ward was married to Miss
Katherine Louise Schweinsburg and they now reside at
1711 Fair Oaks, Pasadena, while Mr. Ward’s office is in the Edison Building at
Third Street and Broadway, Los Angeles.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 633-634,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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