Sharpless, Frederick Fraley, 1866-1951.

Frederick Fraley Sharpless was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1866 and graduated from the University of Michigan in 1888. After graduation he accepted a position at the newly opened Michigan Mining School in Houghton, Michigan as a professor of metallurgy. He left after five years, joining the Consolidated Mines Selection Co., Ltd. of London as their American representative. He went on to become a consulting mining engineer and was elected Secretary of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers (A.I.M.E.) in 1921. Mr. Sharpless passed away in 1951 after a long illness.