sentences:  Wellman was a close friend of electrical pioneer George Westinghouse, and he was also president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from 1901 to 1902.Born in Wareham, Massachusetts in 1847, Wellman was the son of a Nashua Iron Company superintendent.Wellman received his formal engineering training from Norwich University in Norwich, Vermont, and served as a corporal with the First New Hampshire Heavy Artillery during the Civil War.