biography
| name: |
Doherty, Henry Latham
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pronunciation:
[dokertee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1870–1939)
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| biography:
| Utilities executive and engineer, born in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Forced by family circumstances to leave school at age 12, he started working as an office boy for the Columbia Gas Co. By 1896 Emerson McMillin & Co, the New York banking firm that owned several utilities including Columbia Gas, had made him chief engineer and general manager of all the McMillin properties. In 1900 he presented a famous paper on utility rates to the National Electric Association. He founded his own company (1905) to provide various services to utilities and formed Cities Service (1910), a holding company for his own acquisitions, totalling 53 companies by 1913. He continued his engineering innovations in natural gas development and oil production, earning 140 patents in his lifetime, and was equally ingenious in his financial transactions. |
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