Charles Raymond Landrigan

Charles was born in Detroit, MI, August 4, 1894, son of John Joseph and Caroline (Ingram)
Landrigan. His father came to the US from County Cork, Ireland in 1863 and settled in
Detroit where he was employed as a metallurgist.

Charles R. Landrigan attended public schools in Detroit and later supplemented his education
by taking night school courses in mechanical and electrical engineering and accountancy and
through correspondence school courses. In 1912 he began a continuing association with the
Detroit Edison Company, starting as a repair parts clerk. After serving successfully as
chief clerk of power plants and in the construction engineering department, he was
transferred to the controller's staff. He was named assistant controller in 1932 and
controller in 1949. In 1953 he was elected a vice president of the company. In 1954 he was
named executive vice president, the post that he held until his retirement in 1961.

Thereafter, until the close of his life he served the company as an executive consultant.
During the years of his association with the company its generating capacity was increased
from 50 kilowatts to more than 4 megawats. He actively participated in movements for the
economic and industrial development of Detroit, at various times serving as a member of the
Greater Detroit Board of Commerce Port and Seaway Committee, the Mayor's Waterfront
Development Committee, Detroit Tomorrow Committee, Detroit Citizens League, Citizens
Research Council, and the Institute for Economic Education. He was also a member of the
Executive Board of Michigan Week for Economic Development from 1955 to 1960.

In recognition of his achievements in the work of these organizations, he was named a
Michigan industrial ambassador in 1958 by the governor of the State. Landrigan furthermore
was interested in the institutional and youth development programs of Detroit. A member of
the board of governors of the Providence Hospital, he was chairman of that hospital's
$13,000,000 building program, and for some years he was a director of the United Foundation,
Detroit.

He was a leader in the group that organized the Boy's Clubs of Detroit in 1953, thereafter
serving as a member of the board of directors until his death. He was also active in local
councils of the Boy Scouts of America. He became a member of the advisory board of Wayne
State University in 1955, but in 1960 he resigned from that board to protest removal of the
ban prohibiting communists from speaking on the campus.

During WWI he served as a private in the US Army Ordnance Department. Sent overseas with
the AEF, in July, 1918, he saw action in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne campaigns. He
received his honorable discharge from active service in March, 1921, after which he was
affiliated with the 425th Infantry Regiment, Michigan National Guard.

Prominent in organizational matters, he represented the Detroit Edison Company on the
National Industrial Conference Board for thirty years prior to his retirement in 1961.
He served as a director of the Edison Electric Institute during 1956-59 and was a director
of the National Association of Manufacturers, National Association of Electric Companies,
and a member of the US council of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Besides his memberships in these associations, he belonged to the Controllers Institute of
America, High Temperature Reactor Development Association, Michigan Electric Association
(president, 1952-53), The Newcomen Society in North America, the American Legion, the
Detroit Chamber of Commerce, and the Circumnavigators, Plum Hollow Golf, Detroit, Detroit
Athletic, and Economic Clubs. His religious affiliation was Roman Catholic. Politically, he
was a Republican. His leisure-time interests were music, reading, fishing, and playing
bridge and golf. He was married in Detroit, October 14, 1926, to Lillian Rose, daughter of
George John Mitter of Detroit, a Methodist clergyman. He authored articles in trade
publications. Home address was: 3820 Woodlake Dr, Birmingham, MI.

Charles R. Landrigan died without issue in Detroit, MI, November 2, 1962 and was buried in
Woodlawn cemetery in Detroit.