December i, ipcS. 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



101 



The Obituary Record. 



JOHN KOYLE, SH. 



JOHN ROYLE, SR., founder of the machinery manufacturing 

 concern of John Royle & Sons (Paterson, New Jersey), died 

 on October 31, after an illness of less than a week, in his 

 eighty-sixth year, though he had been in failing health for more 

 than twelve months. 



Mr. Royle was born November 22, 1822, in Cheshire (Chester 

 County), England, near Manchester, where his family had re- 

 sided for many years. In 1830 the family removed to America, 

 and they settled finally at Paterson. Mr. Royle received little 

 schooling and at an early age was put to work in a cotton mill 

 there, at a time when cotton was king in Paterson. He went to 

 work at 5 in the morning and got through at 8 in the evening, 

 and for six days' labor of this sort received $1, which was then 

 esteemed a very fair rate of wage for a boy. In 1838, after six 

 years of this kind of service, John Royle left the cotton mill and 

 entered as a machinist's apprentice the works of Rogers, 

 Ketchum & Grosvenor, later known as the Rogers Locomotive 

 Works. A year later Royle's father died, leaving a widow de- 

 pendent largely upon the oldest son. 



Young Royle soon won the liking and confidence of Thomas 

 Rogers, then the head of the shop. It is worthy of note that 

 Royle did the first lathe work on the first locomotive manufac- 

 tured in Paterson, and thus helped to make famous the Rogers 

 output, than which the output of no locomotive works afterwards 

 ranked higher. On account of his application to this work Royle 

 became so ill as to be compelled to quit the shop, after which 

 he became employed in other establishments turning out high- 

 grade machinery until i860, when he determined to start in busi- 

 ness on his own account. 



On account of the outbreak of the Civil War he was not suc- 

 cussful at first, but in 1863 he successfully laid the foundation of 

 what is now the great industrial establishment of John Royle 

 & Sons, at Paterson. Here have been manufactured many spe- 

 cial types of machinery, including the Royle tubing machine, 

 which is known to the rubber industry all over the world, to- 

 gether with some other apparatus of wide-spread use in the 

 rubber industry. 



Mr. Royle retired from the active supervision of the business 



in 1887, leaving the management of its affairs in the hands of 

 two sons, Vernon Royle, his eldest, who came into the business 

 in 1879, •"■"! John Royle, Jr., who became identified with the 

 firm in 1875. Three grandsons are now also identified with the 

 business. Mrs. Royle died about four years ago. There was 

 one other son, Edward, who has been dead many years. Fu- 

 neral services were held on the afternoon of November 3, from 

 the late residence of Mr. Royle, 200 Summer street, Paterson, 

 and the interment was at Cedar Lawn cemetery in that city. 



F. A. C. PERRINE. 



The death of Frederick .\. C. Perrine, A. M., D. sc, was re- 

 ported briefly in tlic last The Indi.\ Rltber World (page 64). 

 Dr. Perrine was born in Manalapan, New Jersey, in 1862, and re- 

 ceived his education at the Freehold Institute and from Prince- 

 ton University, from which latter institution he was graduated in 

 1883 ; later he pursued there a postgraduate course for two 

 years, receiving his degrees at the same institution. His sub- 

 sequent work in the insulated wire departments of important 

 concerns at Trenton, N. J., have been mentioned already. 



From i8g8 to 1900 he was chief engineer of the Standard 

 Electric Co., of California, and in 1900 was made president of 

 the Stanley Electric Manufacturing Co. (Pittsfield, Mass.), 

 which office he filled for four years, retiring on the purchase of 

 the latter by the General Electric Co. to enter practice as a 

 consulting electrical engineer in New York. From 1893 to 1900 

 he was professor of electrical engineering at Leland Stanford. 

 Jr., University, California. His work as chief engineer of the 

 first great long-distance electric transmission line in America— 

 that of the Standard Electric Co., of California — attracted world- 

 wide attention, and in recognition of this he was awarded a gold 

 medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900. 



Dr. Perrine's interment took place on October 22, at Old Ten- 

 nent church, near Freehold, N. J. In 1892 Dr. Perrine married 

 Margaret Roebling, daughter of Ferdinand W. Roeliling, of 

 Trenton, who. with their three children, survive him. 



HENRY FOX TAINTOR. 



Henry F. T.mntor. who died rather suddenly cm November 9, at 

 Newfdundl.-nul, New Jersey, where he liad gone for his health, was 



John Rovle. 



F. A. C. Perrine, a. m., d. sc. 



He.nrv Fox T.mntor. 



