University of Michigan Professor Orlan W. Boston and Assistant With Boston Cutting Tool

University of Michigan Professor Orlan W. Boston and Assistant With Boston Cutting Tool. "Born in 1891, Orlan W. Boston graduated from the University of Michigan Engineering College in 1913, received a Masters degree in 1917, and the degree of Mechanical Engineer in 1926. In 1917 he was commissioned in the U.S. Navy Bureau of Ordnance and later was employed by the Cleveland Tractor Company. In 1921 he joined the University of Michigan faculty as Professor, College of Engineering. Part of his archive collection, now at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History, consists of technical papers, tables, charts, photographs and other information on tests of the physical and chemical properties of metals as determined by various cutting and other processes. An additional 21 linear feet of his files are at the Bentley Historical Library in Ann Arbor. Prof. Boston was president of the Washtenaw County Historical Society in the 1960s. He lived to the age of 101, and died in Florida, where his second wife had him buried. His first wife is buried in Ann Arbor's Forest Hill Cemetery -- under a memorial stone that also bears his name." - Wystan Stevens