BIO: Alfred Brooks Fry; New York State
surname: Fry, Sheridan

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An Illustrated Legislative Manual
The New York Red Book
Containing the Portraits and Biographies of the U.S. Senators, Governor, State
Officers and Members of the Legislature; also with the Portraits of Judges and
Court Reporters, the New Constitution of the State, Election and Population
Statistics, and General Facts of Interest.
By Edgar L. Murlin
New Constitution Compiled by R. C. Cumming, O. L. Potter and F. B. Gilbert
Published, Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, Publishers, 1909

Copyright by J. B. Lyon Company, 1909

          Alfred Brooks Fry, marine, mechanical  and civil engineer,
Advisory Board of Engineers, was born in New York city March 3, 1860. He is a
son of Major Thomas William Gardiner Fry, U. S. A., who died of wounds
received in Civil War; and a great-grandson of Captain Benjamin Fry, of the
Fourth Rhode Island Continental infantry in the Revolution. He was educated at
Morse's and other private schools and entered the engineering course at
Columbia College in 1877, but gave up the same on going to sea. He worked as a
rodman and draftsman from 1877 to 1879; and as a machinist and marine and
stationary engineer from 1879 to 1886 He was Assistant Engineer and Chief
Engineer under the United States Treasurv Department from 1886 to date. He is
now on duty as Chief Engineer and Su perintendent of United States Public
Buildings and of engineering work under the Departmcnt of Commerce and Labor
and United States Treasury Department, Port of New York. He has served as an
engineer in the Naval Militia since its formation in 1892. At present he is
Chief of Staff of the Naval Militia, State of New York, with the rank of
Lieutenant-Commander. He served in the United States Navy as a Passed
Assistant and Acting Chief Engineer in Cuban waters during the Spanish-
American War; and has served as a consulting civil, mechanical, and electrical
engineer for some of the largest corporations in the Eastern States.

     He is a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, Military Order of Loyal
Legion, Society of colonial Wars, Military Order of the Spanish-American War,
the New York Athletic Club, Army and Navy Club, American Society of Mechanical
Engineers, and the American Society of Naval Engineers. He was appointed on
February 18, 1904, by Governor Odell, a member of the Board of Consulting
Engineers for canal construct ion and enlargement He married in 1890 Emma V,
daughter of the late Brigadier-General George A. Sheridan, U. S. A., and has
one son, Sheridan Brooks Fry, born 1893.