Edward Stacey Mansfield (11 November 1870 – 1952) was an American electrical engineer involved in the early development of electric vehicles.

Edward was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, the son of Edward Galen Mansfield and Rebecca Stacey Breed.[1]

He attended Wakefield High School from which he graduated in 1889.[2]

He settled in Boston and was appointed head of education for the Boston Edison Company.[3]

Following the merger of the Electric Vehicle Association of America into the National Electric Light Association (NELA), Mansfield became the Chairman of NELA's Electric Vehicle Section.[4]

Family life

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He married Elizabeth O. Bancroft on 14 June 1905 at the First Unitarian Church, Peabody, Massachusetts.[5] They had two children Edward Bancroft Mansfield and Eleanor Porter Mansfield.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Edward Stacey Mansfield (1870 - Unknown)". www.ancestry.co.uk. Ancestry.co. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  2. ^ The Seventy-Eighth Annual Report of the Town Officers of Wakefield, Mass (PDF). Wakefield, Massachusetts: Town Officers of Wakefield, Mass. 1890.
  3. ^ Breed family. Lynn Massachusetts: Breed Family Association. 1932.
  4. ^ Commerford Martin, Thomas; Leidy Coles, Stephen (1919). The Story of Electricity. New York: M. M. Marcy.
  5. ^ Mansfield, Edward (1905). "Class of 1896" (PDF). The Technology Review. VII (3, July 1905): 344–5.