Education Raised in the community his family helped establish, Alfred prepared at St. Paul’s School (Concord). He then entered Princeton, Class of 1927—where the Bric-a-Brac lists him among the class roll with home address “Lawrence, L. L., N.Y.,” a small but telling marker of place and lineage. He continued on to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completing further technical studies in 1929.

Career Alfred’s work followed the aeronautical supply chain that linked Midwestern plants to East-Coast engine makers:

United Aircraft Products (Dayton, Ohio) — an aerospace heat-exchanger firm founded in the interwar years and later a long-time supplier to Pratt & Whitney and NASA projects. A NASA technical report notes UAP designing oxidizer heat exchangers under a Pratt & Whitney purchase order; industry profiles describe UAP as specializing in aircraft heat-transfer hardware. This aligns with Alfred’s role in “aircraft sales engineering.”

Jack & Heintz Precision Industries (Cleveland, Ohio) — a WWII-era Cleveland manufacturer founded in 1940 by Bill Jack and Ralph Heintz that became a symbol of high-volume war production (and later, of the politics of wartime profit control). Alfred’s Cleveland posting fits the firm’s heyday as it supplied aircraft components at scale.

Clubs and Civic Setting

Alfred remained what earlier generations would have called a “Lawrence of Lawrence.” He was born (1903) and died (1978) in the Village of Lawrence, L.I. He was a member of the Rockaway Hunting Club.

Notes on the Next Generation His son, Alfred Newbold Lawrence Jr. (1931–2023)—“Mike”—kept the seafaring/transport thread alive professionally; his obituary notes the family’s “fourth generation of the founding family of the town.”