Derick S. Hartshorn was a mechanical engineer, graduating from MIT. He was employed in many companies following graduation.
Shortly after his last employment, at Queens Ordnance, he accepted an assistant professorship at Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He taught there for about three years and unofficially retired. In 1946, he and Mary Elizabeth, or "May", as he called her, bought a farm of about four acres in Johnsonville, New York, about twenty miles from Troy. During the next year he invested in a foundry in Oneida, N.Y. Shortly afterwards, he sold his holdings and retired to Florida for the winter. He and May would drive north as summer approached and would leave New York for Ft. Myers, Florida, each fall in his pink Cadillac.
Never content to remain in retirement, he invested a large sum in a company that manufactured cast aluminum porch columns. A perfectionist, he designed them heavier and sturdier than the building codes required. Unfortunately, building contractors were unwilling to pay for what they considered unnecessary extra expense and he lost his investment.
During an early cold spell in Florida, a furnace malfunction resulting in a fire. May suffered severely from smoke inhalation and contracted pneumonia from which she never recovered. Derick, courted a widow after May's death and he married Dallas Haynie in August, 1967. A honeymoon trip was made to Montreal to see the World Exposition. A stopover at his daughter Priscilla's house in Essex Junction, Vermont was made on the way up. The whirlwind trip was too much for him and he suffered a massive heart attack shortly after returning home to Fort Myers.
Shortly after his last employment, at Queens Ordnance, he accepted an assistant professorship at Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He taught there for about three years and unofficially retired. In 1946, he and Mary Elizabeth, or "May", as he called her, bought a farm of about four acres in Johnsonville, New York, about twenty miles from Troy. During the next year he invested in a foundry in Oneida, N.Y. Shortly afterwards, he sold his holdings and retired to Florida for the winter. He and May would drive north as summer approached and would leave New York for Ft. Myers, Florida, each fall in his pink Cadillac.
Never content to remain in retirement, he invested a large sum in a company that manufactured cast aluminum porch columns. A perfectionist, he designed them heavier and sturdier than the building codes required. Unfortunately, building contractors were unwilling to pay for what they considered unnecessary extra expense and he lost his investment.
During an early cold spell in Florida, a furnace malfunction resulting in a fire. May suffered severely from smoke inhalation and contracted pneumonia from which she never recovered. Derick, courted a widow after May's death and he married Dallas Haynie in August, 1967. A honeymoon trip was made to Montreal to see the World Exposition. A stopover at his daughter Priscilla's house in Essex Junction, Vermont was made on the way up. The whirlwind trip was too much for him and he suffered a massive heart attack shortly after returning home to Fort Myers.
Derick S. Hartshorn was a mechanical engineer, graduating from MIT. He was employed in many companies following graduation.
Shortly after his last employment, at Queens Ordnance, he accepted an assistant professorship at Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He taught there for about three years and unofficially retired. In 1946, he and Mary Elizabeth, or "May", as he called her, bought a farm of about four acres in Johnsonville, New York, about twenty miles from Troy. During the next year he invested in a foundry in Oneida, N.Y. Shortly afterwards, he sold his holdings and retired to Florida for the winter. He and May would drive north as summer approached and would leave New York for Ft. Myers, Florida, each fall in his pink Cadillac.
Never content to remain in retirement, he invested a large sum in a company that manufactured cast aluminum porch columns. A perfectionist, he designed them heavier and sturdier than the building codes required. Unfortunately, building contractors were unwilling to pay for what they considered unnecessary extra expense and he lost his investment.
During an early cold spell in Florida, a furnace malfunction resulting in a fire. May suffered severely from smoke inhalation and contracted pneumonia from which she never recovered. Derick, courted a widow after May's death and he married Dallas Haynie in August, 1967. A honeymoon trip was made to Montreal to see the World Exposition. A stopover at his daughter Priscilla's house in Essex Junction, Vermont was made on the way up. The whirlwind trip was too much for him and he suffered a massive heart attack shortly after returning home to Fort Myers.
Shortly after his last employment, at Queens Ordnance, he accepted an assistant professorship at Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He taught there for about three years and unofficially retired. In 1946, he and Mary Elizabeth, or "May", as he called her, bought a farm of about four acres in Johnsonville, New York, about twenty miles from Troy. During the next year he invested in a foundry in Oneida, N.Y. Shortly afterwards, he sold his holdings and retired to Florida for the winter. He and May would drive north as summer approached and would leave New York for Ft. Myers, Florida, each fall in his pink Cadillac.
Never content to remain in retirement, he invested a large sum in a company that manufactured cast aluminum porch columns. A perfectionist, he designed them heavier and sturdier than the building codes required. Unfortunately, building contractors were unwilling to pay for what they considered unnecessary extra expense and he lost his investment.
During an early cold spell in Florida, a furnace malfunction resulting in a fire. May suffered severely from smoke inhalation and contracted pneumonia from which she never recovered. Derick, courted a widow after May's death and he married Dallas Haynie in August, 1967. A honeymoon trip was made to Montreal to see the World Exposition. A stopover at his daughter Priscilla's house in Essex Junction, Vermont was made on the way up. The whirlwind trip was too much for him and he suffered a massive heart attack shortly after returning home to Fort Myers.
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