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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March i, igog. 



The Obituary Record. 



ABNER H. ANGELL. 



ABXER HARRIS AXGELL was bom December 17, 183^, 

 in Providence, Rhode Island, being the son of Jonathan 

 Sprague Angell and Amy Angell Harris. The Angell 

 family were one of the first five settling on the site of the present 

 city of Providence. Mr. Angell w^as educated in Providence, 

 graduating from the high school, and going into business first in 

 that city. Just before the civil war he removed to Baltimore, 

 where he engaged in the oil trade. At the close of the war he 

 married Kate Medairy, of that city, and they moved to New 

 York. J\lr. Angell became a member of the New York Stock 

 E.xchange, and afterward joined The H. F. Taintor Manufac- 

 turing Co., twenty-eight years ago, which business, with the aid 

 of his energ)- and ability, grew to be the first of its line in the 

 United States. Up to about eight months ago he was most 

 active in business, but owing to a complication of diseases he 

 finally retired. On February 4 he suddenly and painlessly 

 passed from life, his mind being clear 

 until the end. He is survived by a sister, 

 Mrs. William Armour, of Providence, 

 and three children, Walter H., Isabel M., 

 and Florence M. His wife died while 

 the children were small. Funeral services 

 were held at the Angell residence, No. 257 

 West Eighty-fourth street, New York, on 

 Sunday, February 7, the Rev. Percy S. 

 Grant, of the Church of the Ascension 

 (Episcopal), officiating. Many beautiful 

 floral tributes were sent, and the house 

 overflowed with the presence of sincere 

 friends, who paid their respects to his 

 beautiful, gentle, courteous nature. The 

 interment occured on Monday morning, 

 February 8, in Kensico cemetery, with 

 only the immediate family present, the 

 Rev. Walter E. C. Smith, also of the 

 Church of the Ascension, having charge 

 of the service. 



For many years Mr. Angell was in 

 close touch with all of the leading rubber 

 manufacturers in the United States. 

 Aside from his business association with 



them, he was of such magnetic presence and was so well informed 

 in every way, and was so friendly and human in his sympathies, 

 that he was the personal friend of most of them, as well as the 

 business acquaintance. The death of Henry F. Taintor. president 

 of The H. F. Taintor Manufacturing Co., with whom Mr. Angell 

 was so long associated, was reported in The Inw.\ Rubber 

 World as recently as its issue of December i last. 



HENKT W. PEABODY. 



In the death of Henry W. Pe.\body, senior member of the 

 firm of Henry W. Peabody & Co. (Boston), the commercial 

 interests of the world lose one who was a power for many years. 

 His chief interests centered about the great exporting and im- 

 porting house that he established in 1866. This in a measure 

 brought him in touch with the rubber trade. It was, however, 

 in connection with the Adamanta Manufacturing Co. that he 

 really became identified with it. This company operated for 

 some years under German patents for the production of rubber- 

 like plastics and the treatment of resins for industrial purposes. 

 Personally, Mr. Peabody had a striking personality. He was 

 kindly, dignified, self-possessed, and able. He knew the business 

 world intimately, and was an authority on finance. Prior to 



The Late Aunlr IIarkis iVngell. 



the establishment of The India Rubber World the Editor of 

 this paper was associated with him in business for some years, 

 and testifies to his sterling character, his ability, and his won- 

 derful breadth of view, both commercial and humanitarian. Of 

 the best type of New England business pioneer, his loss will be 

 severely felt in that one of the great, successful, conscientious 

 merchants has passed. 



CHARLES E. FARGO. 



Charles Evelyn Fargo, who died at his home in Dallas, 

 Texas, January 10, 1909, was born at Great Barrington, Massa- 

 chusetts, February 27, 1850. Six years later his father, the late 

 Charles H. Fargo, removed to Chicago,' where he laid the founda- 

 tion of a great business in shoe manufacturing and jobbing, 

 which from 1870 was conducted under the style of C. H. Fargo 

 & Co. In time Charles E. Fargo became a partner, and upon 

 the death of his father, in 1892, succeeded to the office of presi- 

 dent. The house of Fargo became very large distributers of 

 rubber footwear in the West — probably at one time the largest 

 in that region. When the L. B. Smith 

 Rubber Co., of Setaucket, Long Island, 

 introduced to the trade the then new 

 "thirds'' in rubber footwear, C. H. 

 Fargo & Co. took on their sale exten- 

 sively, and when the latter house became 

 temporarily embarrassed, in 1888, the 

 Smith company held claims against them 

 of $275,000. Later the house again be- 

 came embarrassed, confessing judgment 

 on August 6, 1895, in favor of the United 

 States Rubber Co. and a subsidiary com- 

 pany, on notes for $170,000, giving rise to 

 litigation which continued for five years, 

 the Chicago house ultimately being liqui- 

 dated. Charles E. Fargo was later suc- 

 cessful in another field, and left a family 

 well provided for and a host of staunch 

 friends. His remains were interred in 

 Chicago. 



WILLIAM GOW. 



William Gow, senior partner in the 

 firm of Messrs. Gow, Wilson & Stanton, 

 Limited, of London, died in the latter part 

 of December, in his sixty-fourth year. 

 Mr. Gow went from England to Assam in 1862, and, returning to 

 London in 1S79, he organized the business in the tea trade which 

 later was incorporated under the style given above. In 18S7 he went 

 to Ceylon, where he resided four years, engaged in the tea interest. 

 Mr. Gow's firm has taken a lively interest in the development of 

 plantation rubber from the beginning, and their reports on plan- 

 tation rubber prices and on plantation shares have been widely 

 regarded as authoritative. Mr. Gow was a director in three 

 important rubber plantation companies, in addition to the Cale- 

 donian Ceylon Tea Estates, Limited, all of which have been 

 successful. 



OBITUARY NOTES. 



Herr Jacques Lutz, director of the Deutschen Michelin- 

 Pneumatic-Aktiengesellschaft, at Frankfort o/M. — the German 

 branch of Michelin & Co., the French tire firm — died on Jan- 

 uary 18. 



The death is reported in England, on December 28, of Robert 

 Thomson, formerly head of the Jamaica botanical department. 

 He had recently devoted considerable attention to rubber pro- 

 duction, and written reports of value on several little known 

 species. 



