Cook County IL Archives Biographies.....Bemis, Edward Webster 1860 - 
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Author: Mae Felts Herringshaw (1916)

  Bemis, Edward Webster, Utility Expert of 105 South LaSalle Street, was born in
1860, in Springfield, Mass. He has been Professor of Political Economy in
Vanderbilt University and in the University of Chicago; and was Superintendent
of the Water Department of Cleveland, O. He has also assisted many cities in the
regulation of lighting, lighting street railways, telephone and water rates,
including Boston, New York, Baltimore and Chicago. Since 1913 he has been a
member of the Advisory Board of Valuation Division of the Interstate Commerce
Commission; and since June, 1914, has been a member of the Board of Supervising
Engineers of Chicago.

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HERRINGSHAW'S CITY BLUE BOOK OF BIOGRAPHY

CHICAGOANS OF 1916.

TEN THOUSAND BIOGRAPHIES

EDITED BY
MAE FELTS HERRINGSHAW

CHICAGO
CLARK J. HERRINGSHAW
PUBLISHER

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1916, by
Mae Felts Herringshaw
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.


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