Guy Britton

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Guy Britton

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

Guy BRITTON, chemist of the Jersey City Water Works, was born in Ashtabula county, Ohio, in 1879. He is a son of Samuel BRITTON, born in Crawford county, Pennsylvania, who is engaged in farming there, at the age of seventy-one years. He married Hannah EDWARDS, also born in the Ashtabula county, and had one child.

Guy BRITTON attended the public schools and was graduated from the high school at Kinsman, Ohio, after which he became a student at the Ohio State University. He took a course in civil engineering and was graduated from that department in the class of 1904. His first position was a municipal one in Columbus. Ohio, which he held two years, and he was then for a further two years with Mr. E.G. BRADBURY, consulting engineer, of Columbus. He was next with the New York Central Railroad Company at Niagara Falls until the winter of 1907, after which he formed a connection with Herring & Fuller, of New York, and September 21, 1908, came to Boonton, Morris county New Jersey, in their employ. January 1, 1909, he entered the employ of the Jersey City Water Supply Company, remaining with them until 1911, and has now been chemist of the Jersey City Water Works since the first mentioned company turned their plant over to the city, having charge of the Boonton sterilization plant for the city. He is a member of Gustavus Lodge, No, 442 F, and A. .M., of Kinsman, Ohio; Mahoning chapter, No. 66, R. A. M. of Warren, Ohio; Dover Lodge, NO. 782 B.P.O.E.; and of the American Water Works, Association.

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