[PRCo] Obit for an electrical pioneer

[Fred Schneider]

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 Pittsburgh Press, January 5, 1935, page 12 (Digital page 8)

 FORMER HEAD OF ELECTRICAL CONCERN DIES

Harry M. Doubleday Once Worked With Edison in Pioneer Efforts

SURVIVED BY WIDOW

Was Vestryman at Trinity Cathedral During Stay in Pittsburgh

   Friends today received word of the death of Harry M. Doubleday, who worked with Edison as a pioneer in electricity and for 16 years was president of the Doubleday-Hill Electric Supply Company here.  Heart disease was given as the cause of death.  He was 79 years old.

    Mr. Doubleday, whose home was at Lyons, N. Y., was born in Brooklyn.   He attended Amherst College for two years before entering his father’s textile mill.   Joining Edison in 1881, he assisted in installing the first isolated light plant at a cotton mill in Connecticut and in installing the first electric public lighting system in the world, at Sunbury, Pa.

   In 1890 he became had of the Pittsburgh concern, and in 1906 sold out his interest to his associates.   While residing here he was a vestryman at Trinity Cathedral.

    After residing at Montego Bay, Jamaica, B. W. I., for 21 years, he returned to the United States and established a home at Lyons.

    His widow, Mrs. Mary Adams Doubleday, and a brother, Russel Doubleday, survive.   He was also a brother of the late Frank N. Doubleday, former head of Doubleday, Page & Company, publishers.