Immediately after relieving Harrison of his duties, Patten selected Engine Co. 1 Assistant Engineer Ed Mersch to be the new Fire Marshal. Mersch was certainly a surprise choice. He was not a company officer, he wasn’t even the EFD’s senior engineer. But from Patten’s point of view, Me...
These show that he had had at least four different jobs in the pharmaceutical field during the five to six years following his apprenticeship. But why did he leave Frankfurt and Germany? Why settle in Switzerland, and in Switzerland why in the French speaking town of Vevey? Even if we...