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McCready, Ernest B.

ERNEST B. McCREADY is the owner of the Allentown Testing Laboratory. He is the general manager and one of the directors of the Allen Chemical Company, manufacturers of synthetic phenol. He was elected fourth vice president of the reorganized Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the board of governors of that body and chairman of the Publicity and Convention Bureau. He is also a member and director of the Allentown Rotary Club. He is actively interested in civic affairs. Outside of this city, he is best known through his work as engineer and chemist, in the investigation of cement materials and the manufacture of Portland cement, having conducted investigations for clients all over the United States, and in many foreign countries. He was born November 3, 1872, at Summit HIll, Carbon County, Pa., the son of Robert B. and Anna (Purdon) McCready. He was educated in the public schools of Easton, Pa., and is a graduate of the EAston High School and Lafayette College. He was, for a time, instructor in chemistry and mineralogy in New Hampshire State College, and later in Temple College, Philadelphia. In 1900 he began a systemactic study of the cement industry, and in 1902 came to Allentown as assistant engineer on cement inspection for the New York Rapid Transit Railroad Commission. In 1905 he resigend this appointment to otganize the Lehigh Valley Testing Laboratory which was later incorporated, and in 1911 he withdrew to establish the Allentown Testing Laboratory, of which he is the sole proprietor. Besides the organization salready mentioned, he is a member of the American Chemical Society; the American Society for Testing Materials; the International Society for Testing Materials; the Municipal Engineers, of New York; the Chemists' Club, of New York, and the Engineers' Club of Philadelphia.