Engineer
Centurion, 1893–1916
Born 23 July 1846 in Watertown, New York
Died 28 October 1916 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Buried Church of the Redeemer Cemetery
, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Proposed by William Gaston Hamilton and Frederick C. Withers
Elected 1 April 1893 at age forty-six
Century Memorial
Another severe loss to the railroad world was the death of Theodore Newel Ely, an eminent engineer, and like Theodore Voorhees, a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic. His active life was spent in the engineering department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, until he retired in 1910, as chief of its motive power. He was also a director in steel companies and a member of many engineering societies, as well as president of the Eastern Railroad Association. He was profoundly interested in science and in art, a worthy fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a trustee of the Drexel Institute, a director of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, and vice-president of the American Academy in Rome. A generous social nature made up the complement of human attribute and activity in this able man.
Henry Osborn Taylor
1917 Century Association Yearbook