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{{Short description|American business executive and financier}}
[[File:Aldred 5517544362 2bc5b3bfbe o.jpg|thumb|Aldred and his wife at [[Wheatley Hills]] on May 9, 1914 ]]
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'''John Edward Aldred''' (May 15, 1864 - November 21, 1945) was director of [[United Railways and Electric Company]] of [[Baltimore, Maryland]]. He was president of [[Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power]] in Baltimore, and the [[Pennsylvania Water & Power Company]] He was also the Chairman of the [[Gillette Safety Razor Company]].<ref>{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=One Dollar |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846757,00.html#ixzz1GJtn5y8X |quote=Was injustice done, last week, when Chairman John E. Aldred of the Gillette Safety Razor Company announced that the value of its patents had been suddenly written down from $3,459,500 to $1?
'''John Edward Aldred''' (May 15, 1864 &ndash; November 21, 1945) was an American business executive and financier. He was director of [[United Railways and Electric Company]] of Baltimore, Maryland. Born in [[Lawrence, Massachusetts]],<ref>{{cite news |title=Funeral of Financier Will Be Tomorrow in Locust Valley |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1945/11/23/archives/john-e-aldred-rites-funeral-of-financier-will-be-tomorrow-in-locust.html |quote=A funeral service will be held at 2:15 P. M, tomorrow in the Episcopal Church of St. John's of Lattingtown, Locust Valley, L.I. for John Edward Aldred, ... |newspaper=New York Times |date= November 23, 1945|access-date=2011-03-12 }}</ref> he was president of [[Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power]] in Baltimore, and the [[Pennsylvania Water & Power Company]] He was also the Chairman of the [[Gillette Safety Razor Company]].<ref>{{cite news |title=One Dollar |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846757,00.html#ixzz1GJtn5y8X |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121031214/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846757,00.html#ixzz1GJtn5y8X |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 21, 2010 |quote=Was injustice done, last week, when Chairman John E. Aldred of the Gillette Safety Razor Company announced that the value of its patents had been suddenly written down from $3,459,500 to $1?
|work=[[Time magazine]] |date=February 27, 1928 |accessdate=2011-03-11 }}</ref> His home was the [[John E. Aldred Estate]].
|work=Time magazine

|date=February 27, 1928 |access-date=2011-03-11 }}</ref> His home was the [[John E. Aldred Estate]]. In 1928, he built the Riverside Congregational Church in Lawrence, MA, which is currently known as United Riverside Congregational Church.
==Biography==
He died at the Garden City hotel in [[Garden City, New York]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Aldred, J.E. {{!}} ULAN Full Record Display |url=https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500360213 |website=getty.edu |access-date=January 3, 2023}}</ref>
He was born on May 15, 1864 in [[Lawrence, Massachusetts]]. He died on November 21, 1945.<ref>{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Funeral of Financier Will Be Tomorrow in Locust Valley |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70E1FFB3C5E1B7B93C1AB178AD95F418485F9 |quote=A funeral service will be held at 2:15 P. M, tomorrow in the Episcopal Church of St. John's of Lattingtown, Locust Valley, L.I. for John Edward Aldred, ... |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date= |accessdate=2011-03-12 }}</ref>


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Latest revision as of 21:32, 9 March 2024

John Edward Aldred

John Edward Aldred (May 15, 1864 – November 21, 1945) was an American business executive and financier. He was director of United Railways and Electric Company of Baltimore, Maryland. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts,[1] he was president of Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power in Baltimore, and the Pennsylvania Water & Power Company He was also the Chairman of the Gillette Safety Razor Company.[2] His home was the John E. Aldred Estate. In 1928, he built the Riverside Congregational Church in Lawrence, MA, which is currently known as United Riverside Congregational Church. He died at the Garden City hotel in Garden City, New York.[3]

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  1. ^ "Funeral of Financier Will Be Tomorrow in Locust Valley". New York Times. November 23, 1945. Retrieved 2011-03-12. A funeral service will be held at 2:15 P. M, tomorrow in the Episcopal Church of St. John's of Lattingtown, Locust Valley, L.I. for John Edward Aldred, ...
  2. ^ "One Dollar". Time magazine. February 27, 1928. Archived from the original on November 21, 2010. Retrieved 2011-03-11. Was injustice done, last week, when Chairman John E. Aldred of the Gillette Safety Razor Company announced that the value of its patents had been suddenly written down from $3,459,500 to $1?
  3. ^ "Aldred, J.E. | ULAN Full Record Display". getty.edu. Retrieved January 3, 2023.


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