Alonzo Bertram See

Alonzo Bertram See (October 25, 1849 – December 16, 1941) was an American businessman and social critic. He was the son of Benjamin and Lavania See.[1] He founded the A. B. See Elevator Co., an elevator repair company, in 1883 in Brooklyn, New York. His company was reportedly the first to develop the predecessor to modern destination dispatch elevators.[2] The company was acquired by Westinghouse in 1938.

Newspaper illustration of A.B. See

Alonzo Bertram See was also an anti-feminist.[3]

In 1937 A. B. See Elevator company was the 3rd largest elevator company in the country.[4] See is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

References
  1. Christopher Gray, Streetscapes: Readers' Questions: The Ups and Downs of A. B. See, Elevator Maker, New York Times, June 4, 1995, available at https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07E4D91E39F937A35755C0A963958260
  2. Nick Paumgarten, Up and Then Down: The lives of elevators, The New Yorker, April 21, 2008, available at http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten
  3. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down
  4. A. B. See to Westinghouse, Time Magazine, July 19, 1937, available at http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,882777-1,00.html
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