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Up for sale a RARE! "Con Edison Chairman" Harland C. Forbes Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Harland C. Forbes (1898–1990) was
the board chairman for Con Edison of New York. Forbes worked at Con Edison for 41 years. In
1924, he started at the company as an assistant to the chief electrical
engineer. At the time, the company was still named New York Edison Company. In 1932, he became systems engineer. After
World War II, Mr. Forbes directed a $530 million expansion program in which the
company created new power plants and improved existing ones. He was named
president in 1955 and chairman in 1957. He retired in December 1965. He is the
father of Barton Allan Forbes and Howard Forbes. Forbes was 92 years old
when he died of pneumonia at the Memorial Hospital in Sarasota, Florida, on May
15, 1990.
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