Edwin 'Jay' Quinby

Edwin "Jay" Quinby was educated at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York, at New York City College and by the International Correspondence Schools in electrical engineering. An expert in the field of mass-transportation, he began his transportation career with the North Jersey Rapid Transit Company between Paterson, N.J. and the suburban communities to Suffern, N.Y. as conductor and motorman on multiple-unit trains in Interurban service, then as maintenance mechanic and electrician and as substation operator, and then he joined the American Car & Foundry Company as a designer and inspector, and later, Western Electric Company and Radio Corporation of America, leaving in May, 1941 when called to active duty in the United States Naval Reserve, of which he had been a member since 1932, retiring with the rank of Commander. He held nine United States patents for electrical devices, railway signals, and audio and radio.