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179 Thomas Edison was chairman the board. Charles eventually worked one these offices, however, certainly occupying one the 1920s. Edison’s youngest son, Theodore, came work the laboratory later, and also had desk the library (see for more Theodore Edison). tempting speculate that Charles’ entry into his father’s business precipitated the addition the two private offices within the library few years later, but there firm evidence support this theory. 3. 1926 and chairman the executive board 1927. 22-24. John Ott, Edison’s associate from before the Menlo Park days, had been ill for long while himself and died shortly after heard Edison’s death.W. explained to Charles: "You remember the last time saw him the library, how talked together? Well, want keep that lasting memory."180 It not known exactly where Mambert and Clark worked, but logical to assume that Charles was library office this time, they would located either that office, nearby the library.Family, friends, Thomas Edison, Inc."178 178 The New York Times, October 21, 1931, col. Charles Edison. 180 Stephen Mambert Mullin Wayne, March 28, 1923, Biographical Collection. Long before Edison moved West Orange, Insull had established the position private secretary to 59 . 179 Matthew Josephson, Edison; Biography, (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. Peters also recalled that comptroller had the other private office the library. 181 Roderic Peters interview, nd, Oral History Project, pp. that time, Isaac (Ike) Walker was Charles’ assistant, and Peters sat across from him double desk alcove. executives, and long time laboratory workers were admitted the library directly. When Edison opened his laboratory 1887, Alfred Tate succeeded Samuel Insull personal secretary Edison. Harvey Firestone paid his respects, but Edison’s great friend Henry Ford was not able enter the library.181 Alfred Tate. Beginning 1914, Stephen Mambert acted Charles’ assistant (see for more Stephen Mambert). Charles became president Thomas Edison, Inc. 1917, Charles’ new assistant was George Clark; Clark himself also had secretary, R., 1959), 445; see also Venable, Out the Shadow: The Story Charles Edison, 74. Kellow, who eventually became office manager charge several Edison’s "personal undertakings, such Chemical Plants. Charles, Edison and Minas’ oldest son, went work for his father 1913 after studying engineering the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Roderic Peters, who marketed the Edison phonograph the mid-1920s, remembered that Charles’ office and his clerks’ desks were the library