OBITUARY
Name: Albert Leet Galusha Jr.
From: Unknown, New Jersey
Date: August, 1961
Albert Leet Galusha of Verona died Sunday of a heart attack while attending
services at Caldwell Methodist Church. He was 83.
In 1919 Mr. Galusha designed and built the first gas producing power plant used
to propel a vessel across the Atlantic. He held several patents for gas
generators....devices to generate gas fuel from solid combustibles...and also
for machinery to produce powdered eggs.
Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, he spent his youth in Jericho, Vermont. He was a
descendant of Jonas Galusha, one of the first governors of Vermont. Mr. Galusha
moved to Caldwell in 1920. He resided 21 years in West Caldwell and 20 years in
Verona.
Mr. Galusha received a B.S. Degree from Dartmouth College in 1899, and an
engineer degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1901. In 1920, he
became a director and engineer for the Gas Generator and Engineering Corp. of
New York. From 1926-35 he was chief engineer for the Dover Boiler Works, Dover.
From 1936 until his retirement in 1957 he was chief engineer in the Gas
Generator Division, Wellman Engineering Co., Cleveland.
He also has worked as a consultant for manufacturing concerns in England, Spain,
South Africa, Australia and Japan. He was an author of articles on power plants
in several foreign and domestic technical publications. He was an honorary
member of the American Society of Mechanical engineers.
He leaves his wife Mrs. Isabel Cochran Galusha; a son, Albert Ranney Galusha of
Shaftsbury; Vt. and a daughter, Ruth Lola Bartley of Bennington, Vt.