| Edwin Webster | |
| Birth Date: | 26 August 1867 |
| Birth Place: | Roxbury, Massachusetts, US |
| Death Place: | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, US |
| Resting Place: | Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Alma Mater: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1888) |
| Occupation: | Electrical engineer, businessman |
| Years Active: | 1890-1941 |
| Boards: | Stone & Webster, Consolidated Investment Trust, United Fruit Company, Pacific Mills, Wilmington & Franklin Coal Company, Tampa Electric Company, Ames Shovel & Tool Company |
| Spouse: | Jane Depeyster Hovey |
| Children: | 3 |
Edwin Sibley Webster (August 26, 1867 – May 10, 1950) was an early electrical engineer and graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He co-founded Stone & Webster with his friend Charles A. Stone.[1] [2] He was president and vice-chairman of the company for many years, becoming chairman on the death of his partner in 1941.
Stone & Webster built their business from a base at Stoughton, Massachusetts into a multi-faceted engineering services company that provided engineering, construction, environmental, and plant operation and maintenance services. They became involved with power generation projects, starting with hydroelectric plants of the late 19th-century that led to building and operating electric streetcar systems in a number of cities across the United States.
As well as industrial plants, they built the 50-storey General Electric Building in New York City, the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, a landmark now listed in the National Register of Historic Places, as well as buildings for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Stone & Webster was the prime contractor for the electromagnetic separation plant for the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.[3] [4]