Edward Stacey Mansfield (11 November 1870 – 1952) was an

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involved in the early development of

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. Edward was born in

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, the son of Edward Galen Mansfield and Rebecca Stacey Breed. He attended Wakefield High School from which he graduated in 1889. He settled in

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and was appointed head of education for the

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. Following the merger of the

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into the

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(NELA), Mansfield became the Chairman of NELA's Electric Vehicle Section.

Family life

He married Elizabeth O. Bancroft on 14 June 1905 at the First Unitarian Church,

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. They had two children Edward Bancroft Mansfield and Eleanor Porter Mansfield.

References

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