Yale Bio/Obit
EUGENE LAWRENCE MESSLER, Ph B 1894 Born April 6, 1873, Allegheny, Pa , died March 1, 1950, Pittsburgh, Pa
Father, Thomas Doremus Messier, vice-president Pennsylvania Railroad Company, son of Abraham Messier Mother, Maria Remsen (Varick) Messier, daughter of John Remsen and Susan Brinkerhoff (Storm) Varick Yale relatives include Remsen V Messier, '80 (brother), Lewis F Frissell, '95, George Lauder Jr, '00 S (cousins)
Shady Side Academy Mechanical engineering course, Freshman Football Team, substitute University Football Team, Freshman and University crews, vice-president University Football Club, The Cloister and Book and Snake Football coach Centre College 1894, pattern maker Edgar Thompson Works, Carnegie Steel Company, Ltd , 1894-95, superintendent Duquesne blast furnaces 1895-1900, general superintendent blast furnaces and coke ovens Jones & Laughlm Steel Company, Pittsburgh, 1900-1911, assistant to president Riter-Conley Manufacturing Company 1911-15, vice-president in charge construction and operations Witherow Steel Company 1915-17, president Eureka Fire Brick Works, Mt Braddock, Pa , 1903-50, president Class of 1894 S from 1893 to 1950, Captain Engineers, World War I (St -Mihiel and MeuseArgonne operations), joined Engineer Reserves 1922, honorary Colonel 1937, president Pittsburgh post Society of American Military Engineers 1929-30, member Reserve Officers Association, Sons of the American Revolution, American Museum of Natural History, Academy
of Science and Art (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh Zoological Society, Army Ordnance Association, Yale Engineering Association, Engineer Society of Western Pennsylvania, American Iron and Steel Institute, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Refractories Institute, and British Iron and Steel Institute
Married December 31, 1898, in Pittsburgh, Elizabeth Verner, daughter of Joseph Dawson and Margaret (Dravo) Long
Children: Thomas Doremus and Eugene Lawrence, Jr
Death due to intestinal obstruction Buried in Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh
Received from contributor Toni Doubleday in April 2018
EUGENE LAWRENCE MESSLER, Ph B 1894 Born April 6, 1873, Allegheny, Pa , died March 1, 1950, Pittsburgh, Pa
Father, Thomas Doremus Messier, vice-president Pennsylvania Railroad Company, son of Abraham Messier Mother, Maria Remsen (Varick) Messier, daughter of John Remsen and Susan Brinkerhoff (Storm) Varick Yale relatives include Remsen V Messier, '80 (brother), Lewis F Frissell, '95, George Lauder Jr, '00 S (cousins)
Shady Side Academy Mechanical engineering course, Freshman Football Team, substitute University Football Team, Freshman and University crews, vice-president University Football Club, The Cloister and Book and Snake Football coach Centre College 1894, pattern maker Edgar Thompson Works, Carnegie Steel Company, Ltd , 1894-95, superintendent Duquesne blast furnaces 1895-1900, general superintendent blast furnaces and coke ovens Jones & Laughlm Steel Company, Pittsburgh, 1900-1911, assistant to president Riter-Conley Manufacturing Company 1911-15, vice-president in charge construction and operations Witherow Steel Company 1915-17, president Eureka Fire Brick Works, Mt Braddock, Pa , 1903-50, president Class of 1894 S from 1893 to 1950, Captain Engineers, World War I (St -Mihiel and MeuseArgonne operations), joined Engineer Reserves 1922, honorary Colonel 1937, president Pittsburgh post Society of American Military Engineers 1929-30, member Reserve Officers Association, Sons of the American Revolution, American Museum of Natural History, Academy
of Science and Art (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh Zoological Society, Army Ordnance Association, Yale Engineering Association, Engineer Society of Western Pennsylvania, American Iron and Steel Institute, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Refractories Institute, and British Iron and Steel Institute
Married December 31, 1898, in Pittsburgh, Elizabeth Verner, daughter of Joseph Dawson and Margaret (Dravo) Long
Children: Thomas Doremus and Eugene Lawrence, Jr
Death due to intestinal obstruction Buried in Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh
Received from contributor Toni Doubleday in April 2018
Yale Bio/Obit
EUGENE LAWRENCE MESSLER, Ph B 1894 Born April 6, 1873, Allegheny, Pa , died March 1, 1950, Pittsburgh, Pa
Father, Thomas Doremus Messier, vice-president Pennsylvania Railroad Company, son of Abraham Messier Mother, Maria Remsen (Varick) Messier, daughter of John Remsen and Susan Brinkerhoff (Storm) Varick Yale relatives include Remsen V Messier, '80 (brother), Lewis F Frissell, '95, George Lauder Jr, '00 S (cousins)
Shady Side Academy Mechanical engineering course, Freshman Football Team, substitute University Football Team, Freshman and University crews, vice-president University Football Club, The Cloister and Book and Snake Football coach Centre College 1894, pattern maker Edgar Thompson Works, Carnegie Steel Company, Ltd , 1894-95, superintendent Duquesne blast furnaces 1895-1900, general superintendent blast furnaces and coke ovens Jones & Laughlm Steel Company, Pittsburgh, 1900-1911, assistant to president Riter-Conley Manufacturing Company 1911-15, vice-president in charge construction and operations Witherow Steel Company 1915-17, president Eureka Fire Brick Works, Mt Braddock, Pa , 1903-50, president Class of 1894 S from 1893 to 1950, Captain Engineers, World War I (St -Mihiel and MeuseArgonne operations), joined Engineer Reserves 1922, honorary Colonel 1937, president Pittsburgh post Society of American Military Engineers 1929-30, member Reserve Officers Association, Sons of the American Revolution, American Museum of Natural History, Academy
of Science and Art (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh Zoological Society, Army Ordnance Association, Yale Engineering Association, Engineer Society of Western Pennsylvania, American Iron and Steel Institute, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Refractories Institute, and British Iron and Steel Institute
Married December 31, 1898, in Pittsburgh, Elizabeth Verner, daughter of Joseph Dawson and Margaret (Dravo) Long
Children: Thomas Doremus and Eugene Lawrence, Jr
Death due to intestinal obstruction Buried in Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh
Received from contributor Toni Doubleday in April 2018
EUGENE LAWRENCE MESSLER, Ph B 1894 Born April 6, 1873, Allegheny, Pa , died March 1, 1950, Pittsburgh, Pa
Father, Thomas Doremus Messier, vice-president Pennsylvania Railroad Company, son of Abraham Messier Mother, Maria Remsen (Varick) Messier, daughter of John Remsen and Susan Brinkerhoff (Storm) Varick Yale relatives include Remsen V Messier, '80 (brother), Lewis F Frissell, '95, George Lauder Jr, '00 S (cousins)
Shady Side Academy Mechanical engineering course, Freshman Football Team, substitute University Football Team, Freshman and University crews, vice-president University Football Club, The Cloister and Book and Snake Football coach Centre College 1894, pattern maker Edgar Thompson Works, Carnegie Steel Company, Ltd , 1894-95, superintendent Duquesne blast furnaces 1895-1900, general superintendent blast furnaces and coke ovens Jones & Laughlm Steel Company, Pittsburgh, 1900-1911, assistant to president Riter-Conley Manufacturing Company 1911-15, vice-president in charge construction and operations Witherow Steel Company 1915-17, president Eureka Fire Brick Works, Mt Braddock, Pa , 1903-50, president Class of 1894 S from 1893 to 1950, Captain Engineers, World War I (St -Mihiel and MeuseArgonne operations), joined Engineer Reserves 1922, honorary Colonel 1937, president Pittsburgh post Society of American Military Engineers 1929-30, member Reserve Officers Association, Sons of the American Revolution, American Museum of Natural History, Academy
of Science and Art (Pittsburgh), Pittsburgh Zoological Society, Army Ordnance Association, Yale Engineering Association, Engineer Society of Western Pennsylvania, American Iron and Steel Institute, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, American Refractories Institute, and British Iron and Steel Institute
Married December 31, 1898, in Pittsburgh, Elizabeth Verner, daughter of Joseph Dawson and Margaret (Dravo) Long
Children: Thomas Doremus and Eugene Lawrence, Jr
Death due to intestinal obstruction Buried in Homewood Cemetery, Pittsburgh
Received from contributor Toni Doubleday in April 2018
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