Benjamin Garver Lamme was born on January 12, 1864, on a farm on Lower Valley Pike in Bethel Township and died on July 8, 1924, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He joined the Westinghouse Electric Company in 1880, helped develop the Niagara Falls power system, and became Westinghouse's chief engineer in 1903, serving in that role for the rest of his life. An inventor and developer of electrical machinery, he received 162 patents and pioneered rotary converters, developed direct current railway motors, produced the first commercially successful induction motor, and received patents for electrical ship propulsion and gyroscopic stabilizer systems. His development of alternating current made it possible to transmit electricity over long distances and aided the industrialization of the Midwestern United States. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for invention and development of electrical machinery and, on January 11, 1923, The Ohio State University presented him with the Joseph Sullivant Gold Medal for notable achievement in invention, discovery, and contribution to science. Bertha Lamme was born on December 16, 1869, on a farm on Lower Valley Pike in Bethel Township and died on July 8, 1942, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Olive Branch in 1889 and from The Ohio State University in 1893, where she became the first woman in the United States to receive an engineering degree specializing in electricity. She joined her brother at Westinghouse and worked on the design of the turbo generator for the Niagara Falls Hydroelectric Company. Her engineering ability earned recognition within and beyond Westinghouse and won her a reputation among electricians and inventors. In 1905 she married her Westinghouse colleague and fellow Ohio State graduate Russell Feicht, and her twelve-year career ended with her marriage. Benjamin and Bertha were among eight children raised on the Lamme farm, established in 1803, and both attended Olive Branch, where Benjamin graduated with the school's first class in 1883 and Bertha graduated with the class of 1889.