Arthur Clinton Spurr

[2] After his graduation in 1913 Spurr started his career in industry at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad as a student employee on the staff of its third vice-president.

In 1917 he served in World War I in the 21st Engineers as First Lieutenant at the Western Front, where he took part in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel.

[2] Back in the States in 1919 he was appointed traffic manager at the East Coast Fisheries Company in Rockland, Maine.

[2] In 1935 he was appointed president of the Monongahela Power Company, a regulated subsidiary of Allegheny Energy, where he served the next twenty years[4] until his retirement in 1955.

[5] In recognition of his work, Spurr was awarded the Thomas W. Martin Rural Electrification in 1940,[4] and the Henry Laurence Gantt Medal in 1949 for "distinguished achievement in industrial management as a service to the community.