Frederic Wait Lord

Frederic Wait Lord (July 3, 1871 – December 31, 1951) was an American energy executive and author.

Early life Lord was born on July 3, 1871, in Brooklyn, New York. He was a son of Joseph Lord (1832–1880) and Mary Ann ( Archer) Lord (1840–1925). Among his siblings were Dr. Sidney Archer Lord, Ernest Archer Lord, and Genevieve ( Lord) Frothingham (wife of Edgar Vietor Frothingham). He served as president of Lord Electric, as well as Lord Manufacturing Co. and Lord Construction Co.,

An honorary member of the New York Electrical Contractors Association, he was the author of three books, Ethics of Contracting and Stabilizing of Profits, the Selective Method of Letting Contracts, and Contracting as a Profession. After their marriage, her brother, Edward Kirkham, began working for Lord. From her first marriage, she was the mother of Lloyd Kirkman Garrison (an attorney who represented physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in the 1950s) and Clarinda Kirkham ( Garrison) Binger (who married Dr. Carl Binger). Together, they lived at 238 East 68th Street, and were the parents of three daughters, including:

Anne Kirkham Lord (1908–2000), a twin who married landscape architect Wolcott Erskine Andrews, son of Martin Andrews, in 1937. Mary Archer "Polly" Lord (1908–1998), a twin who married Charles Merriman Du Puy Reed, son of William Ebenezer Reed. They later divorced. Ellen Wait Lord (1909–1984), who married Robert Gordon Pierce, a banker with Dry Dock Savings Bank who was a son of Gordon Pierce, in 1937.

Lord died on December 31, 1951, at New York Hospital in New York City. His widow died at her summer home at Black Point near New London, Connecticut in July 1959.