Frederick Crabtree
Frederick Crabtree (1867-1925)
1925 Obituary [1]
FREDERICK CRABTREE died on February 14, 1925, at St. Petersburg, Florida.
He was born in Bramley, Yorkshire, in 1867.
He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated with the degree of B.Sc. in chemistry in 1889. He afterwards served as chemist with the Illinois Steel Company, and with the National Tube Co. from 1890-1900.
He was superintendent of the Western Steel Co. for two years, and later superintendent of the blast-furnaces of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. until 1904. He then became professor of mining and metallurgy at the Colorado College. Leaving that position, he went to Pittsburg and joined the staff of the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and served as head of the department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering since 1906.
He was a member of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers; American Iron and Steel Institute; American Electrochemical Society; American Society for Steel Treating; and the Engineers Society of Western Pennsylvania.
He was elected a member of the Iron and Steel Institute in 1913.