General Manager, Westinghouse Air Brake Company
Centurion, 1899–1933
Born 16 November 1853 in Central Bridge, New York
Died 18 November 1933 in Goshen, New York
Buried Woodlawn Cemetery
, Bronx, New York
Proposed by Frederic H. Betts and Henry G. Prout
Elected 3 June 1899 at age forty-five
Century Memorial
Among the family names which will probably, like Edison and Pullman, always be associated with appliances of every one’s daily life is that of Westinghouse. The last of that family’s notable group of inventive engineers, Henry Herman Westinghouse, had been continuously a moving spirit in the railway air-brake industry since the Seventies. His own discoveries adapted the steam-engine to the requirements of the day, as far back as 1883, and he followed his father and elder brother in the presidency of the family company.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1934 Century Association Yearbook
