May i, 1903.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



273 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 



CHARLES A. HOYT. 



CHARLES ALBERT HOYT, long well known in the hard 

 rubber trade, died on April 18 at Pasadena, California, 

 where he had been visiting his son, in his sixty-fourth year. 

 He was bom in Burlington, Vermont, in 1839, his father being 

 the late Rev. William Hoyt, who leftthe Protestant Episi 

 ministry to become a Roman Catholic priest, and was attached 

 to St. Ann's Church, in New York, at the time of his death in 

 1883. The Rev. Mr. Hoyt was for a time editor of the Bur- 

 lington Sentinel. Charles A. Hoyt was a graduate from the 

 University of Vermont and from Georgetown College. In 1861 



he entered the em- 

 ploy of the India 

 Rubber Comb Co. 

 at College Point, 

 New York, which 

 owned and con- 

 trolled the Good- 

 year hard rubber 

 patents, and in 

 1872 he became a 

 member of the 

 company, with the 

 office of treasurer, 

 which he held up 

 to the mergei of 

 the company with 

 the American 

 Hard Rubber Co. 

 in 1898. Mr. Hoyt 

 was a man of capa 

 city and took a 

 deep interest in 

 the business of the 

 company. As one of his surviving associates says, the officers 

 of the company, whatever their titles, worked together with 

 a common purpose in the promotion of its business, like so 

 many partners in a firm. Mr. Hoyt's most direct interest. 

 however, was in promoting the sales of the company's products. 

 After the formation of the American Hard Rubber Co., Mr. 

 Hoyt relinquished the details of business formerly in his charge, 

 but remained to the end of his life a director of the company, 

 taking an active interest in the conduct of its affairs. 



Mr. Hoyt was a member of the New York Chamber of Com 

 merce, the New England Society, the Society of the Sons of 

 the American Revolution, the Long Island Historical Society, 

 the Society of the Cincinnati, the Founders and Patriots of 

 America, the Mayflower Descendants, and the Hamilton Club 

 of Brooklyn. He was a director of the German-American In- 

 surance Co., and vice president of the St. Vincent's Home (or 

 Boys. He resided in Brooklyn at No. 15 Pierpont street, and 

 is survived by one son, Albert Sherman Hoyt, m. D., who lives 

 at Pasadena. The accompanying portrait is from a photograph 

 of Mr. Hoyt taken in November last. 



JOHN M. STUDLEY. 



Colonel John M. Studley, a well known citizen of Piovi- 

 dence, Rhode Island, died at his home in that city, on 

 April 10, after a brief illness. He was born January 9, 1829, 

 at Worcester, Massachusetts, where he lived until the begin- 

 ning of the civil war. He had been connected with the state 

 militia since his seventeenth year, and enlisted in the Union 

 army, in which he saw much active service in the Fifteenth and 



CHARLES ALBERT HOYT. 



Fifty-first regiments, Massachusetts volunteers. He was taken 

 prisoner in the battle of Ball's Bluff, and later was in the battle 

 of Antietam. He made a good record as a soldier and an of- 

 ficer and attended the reunions of the two regiments named 

 until the end of his life. 



After the war Colonel Studley took a position with H. G. 

 Norton & Co., rubber goods dealers in New Yoik city, his 

 younger brother. Thomas E. Studley, being at that time a mem- 

 ber of the firm. In 1866 the two brothers purchased the inter- 

 est of the senior partner in Garfield & Eddy, a long established 

 rubber goods house at Providence, the firm becoming A. C. 

 Eddy & Studleys. In 1883 Mr. Eddy sold his interest to the 

 Studleys, who continued the business as Studley Brothers 

 until the death of Thomas E., in 1896, since which time the 

 style of the business has been Studley & Co. 



Before i860 the firm 

 of Garfield & Eddy had 

 begun the manufacture 

 of rubbersvringes. bulbs, 

 and tubing, renting for 

 the purpose premises 

 from the old Providence 

 Rubber Shoe Co., and 

 which are now occupied 

 by the Bourn Rubber 

 Co. Their manufactur- 

 ing business was exten- 

 sive at one time, orders 

 being filled for Charles 

 Davidson, Dr. Morris 

 Mattson, the Da vol 

 Rubber Co., the Good- 

 year Rubber Co., and 

 for many dealers. The 

 manufacture was con- 

 inued for some time 

 by the Messrs. Studley 

 after the retirement of 

 col. john m. studley. Colonel Eddy from the 



firm. 

 Colonel Studley was a man widely known in the rubber 

 trade, exceedingly popular, and of the old fashioned, reliable 

 New England type. He was a lifelong Democrat and took 

 an active interest in politics, serving for ten years (1891-1901) 

 as a member of the Providence board of license commission- 

 ers. He was a member of the Loyal Legion and the Society 

 of the Army of the Potomac. The funeral was attended by 

 officers of the two regiments to which Colonel Studley had 

 belonged. He leaves a widow and son. Colonel J. Edward 

 Studley, president of the Manufacturers' Trust Co. (Provi- 

 dence), and a daughter, the wife of James B. Gay, of the 

 same city. He is survived also by a thiid brother, Theodore 

 E. Studley. secretary and treasurer of the Vulcanized Rubber 

 Co. (New York). 



WILLIAM H. AIDRIDGE. 



William H. Ai.dridge, one of the old time mechanical 

 goods superintendents, died at his home in Trenton, New Jer- 

 sey, on April 24. He had been for some time troubled with 

 sleeplessness, and it is supposed started out some time in the 

 night with the idea of walking it off, was stricken with apo- 

 plexy at the top of a flight of stairs and fell to the bottom, the 

 (all killing him instantly. The deceased was born in Pennsyl- 

 vania 74 years ago and had been a resident of Trenton for nearly 

 60 years. He was a machinist in early life but soon left that 

 trade to go into the rubber business, being associated with 



