Windsor

FLANDERS, Ralph Edward

Encyclopedia Vermont Biography: A Series of Authentic Biographical Sketches 
of the Representative Men of Vermont and Sons of Vermont in Other States. 
Dodge. Burlington: Ullery Publishing Company, 1912, p 191

Ralph Edward FLANDERS, mechanical engineer, Springfield [Windsor County, 
Vermont], was born 28 September 1880 at Barnet [Caledonia County, Vermont], 
son of Albert Wellington and Mary (GILFILLAN) FLANDERS. Educated in the 
public schools, Lincoln [Kent County], Rhode Island; Pawtucket and Central 
Falls high schools [both in Providence County], Rhode Island, and engineering 
education by night study. Apprenticed to the machinist's trade at the 
Brown-Sharpe Manufacturing Company, Providence, in 1897; worked as draftsman 
and designer with various firms in New England until July 1905, when he went 
to New York on the editorial staff of "Machinery," remaining until 1910, when 
he entered the employ of the Fellows Gear Shaper Company, Springfield, as 
mechanical engineer, which position he still holds. Has made a special study 
of gearing, having written a book, "Gear Cutting Machinery," besides smaller 
pamphlets, and various papers on the subject read before the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers and other bodies, as well as lectures at various 
schools and colleges. Independent in politics. Congregationalist. 
Associate member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers; member of 
Society of Automobile Engineers, and Machinery Club of New York. In 1911 he 
[Ralph Edward FLANDERS married [Miss] Helen E. HARTNESS, daughter of James 
HARNESS of Springfield.

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