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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



415 



OBITUARY. 



RHODES LOCKWOOD, president and treasurer of the 

 Davidson Rubber Co. (Boston), died on August 4 in a 

 hospital as the result of an automobile accident while on his way 

 two days earlier to the office of his company. The trouble was 

 caused by the breaking of the front axle, which caused Mr. Lock- 

 wood to be thrown violently to the ground ; his son Khodes G., 

 who was driving, was only slightly injured. 



Mr. Lockwood was born in the old Fort Hill district of Bos 

 ton, September 26. 1839. and was graduated from the Chauncey 

 Hall School in 1857, after which he filled several business posi 

 tions, until 1S68, when he became a partner with his brother^ 

 H. D. Lickwood. in carrying on the business of the Davidson 

 Rubber Co. H. D. Lockwood dying a few years later, Rhodes 

 Lockwood took in partnership a third brother, under the firm 

 name R. &. P. C. Lockwood. Still later the third brother re 

 tired and Rhodes Lockwood took into partnership his sons, 

 William N.and Rhodes G.. under the firm name Rhodes Lock- 

 wood & Co., for the ownership of the property, although dur- 

 ing the whole time the manufacturing and selling business has 

 been conducted under the name of the 

 Davidson Rubber Co. Last year a cor- 

 poration was formed under the latter 

 name, taking title to the property. It 

 might be mentioned that Rhodes Lock- 

 wood's first connection with the busi- 

 ness really was in i<S58, when for a few 

 months he was employed in the office 

 of the rubber company. This is an im- 

 portant druggists' sundries firm, which 

 owes its name to the late Dr. Herman 

 E. Davidson, the inventor of the David- 

 son syringe and descended from Fran- 

 cis Davidson, who was wounded at the 

 battle of Bunker Hill. The subject of 

 this sketch was the son of Rhodes G. 

 Lockwood, a native of Providence, 

 Rhode Island, who removed to Boston, 

 where he was engaged in business for 

 many years, and his mother was the 

 sister of Dr. Davidson, above men- 

 tioned. 



Mr. Lockwood was until recently a 

 director of the Bunker Hill National 

 Bank. He was a member of the auditing committee of the 

 Warren Institution for Savings, a director of the Boston 

 Woven Hose and Rubber Co., a member of the Bunker Hill 

 Monument Association, the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety, the Charitable Mechanics' Association, and a number 

 of other organizations. He resided in Charlestown until about 

 25 years ago, when he removed to I^eacon street, Boston. He 

 also owned a delightful summer residence in East Lexington, 

 which was his home at the time of his death. He is survived 

 by three sons — R. G. Lockwood, W. N. Lockwood and Philip 

 C. Lockwood — and three daughters, Mrs. Dr. G. C. Green and 

 Misses Henrietta and Emily Lockwood. 



The funeral occurred on Saturday, August 5, from the East 

 Lexington house, the officiating clergyman being the Rev. Dr. 

 Bushnell. The floral offerings from business and personal 

 friends were massed at one end of the drawing room, com- 

 pletely covering the casket and softening the stern reality of 

 the sad event that brought the many mourners there. The 

 services were brief, a quartette out on the vine covered veranda 

 singing "Hark, Hark, My Soul" and "Paradise," and the 



clergyman reading appropriate scriptural selections, followed 

 by a touching tribute to the deceased. The interment was in 

 Mount Auburn cemetery. 



Rhodes Lockwood was of the very best type of New England 

 business men. Modest in his bearing, always the courteous 

 gentleman, of unusual culture, patrician to his finger tips, wise 

 in his judgments, always thoughtful of others, of striking per- 

 sonal presence, he was loved and respected by all with whom 

 he came in contact. 



« » « 

 Levi Laud, treasurer of the town of Needham, Massachu- 

 setts, died in that town on August 8, in his seventy-first year. 

 In 1870 he became interested with the late Charles M. Clapp 

 and Robert D. Evans under the style Clapp, Evans i^ Co., 

 rubber goods jobbers in Boston and operating the .('Etna Rub- 

 ber Mills, at Jamaica Plain. After this copartnership closed. 

 Mr. Ladd was interested with Mr. P^vans and George H. Hood 

 in the Eagle Rubber Co., also with a factory at Jamaica Plain, 

 the business of which was merged in time with the American 

 Rubber Co., the large factory of which is still in operation at 

 Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Ladd became a resident of Needham in 

 1870, and in 1881 became town treas- 

 urer, to which position he has since 

 been reelected every year. 



* * • 

 Warwick H. Payne, who for a 



number of years had represented the 

 Eureka Fire Hose Co. (New York) in 

 the sale of their fire hose in the South- 

 ern states, with headtjuarters at At- 

 lanta, Georgia, died recently after an 

 illness of several months. He was 

 thirty years of age, a native of Scotts- 

 boro, Alabama, educated at the Uni- 

 versity of Alabama and a graduate in 

 law. He was sometime secretary to 

 General Joe Wheeler, was president of 

 the Confederate Sons Association, and 

 was identified with the Smithsonian 

 Institution at Washington as an expert 

 on Indian relics. 



* • • 

 Albert A. Sanborn, of Newark, 



New Jersey, died at his cottage at 

 Greenwood Lake on August 5. He 

 was born in 1846 near Rockford, Illinois, and at Albany, New 

 York, married a daughter of Isaac Smith Hyatt, who, with his 

 brother John W. Hyatt, was identified with the establishment 

 of the celluloid industry. Mr. Sanborn, it is said, first suggested 

 the making of collars, cufis, and shirt fronts from sheet cellu- 

 loid, and for many years he was in charge of this branch of the 

 work of the Celluloid Co. (Newark, N. I.) 



» * * 

 Joseph W. Green, treasurer and general manager of the 

 Glendale Elastic Fabrics Co. (Easlhampton, Massachusetts), 

 died at his home on August 28, in his fifty-seventh year, after 

 an illness of more than a month. He was born in Marblehead, 

 Mass., August 23. 1S48, and at the age of 18 became employed 

 by a Boston house of dealers in shoe findings. He made a 

 specialty of elastic shoe gorings, which brought him to the no- 

 tice of the Glendale Elastic Fabrics Co., and in 1878 he went to 

 Easthampton as treasurer of that company, and ever since had 

 been in the immediate direction of its afTairs. Mr. Green was 

 interested in other business institutions in Easthampton, and 

 active in social and political life, and in municipal afTairs. 



THE LATE RHODES LOCKWOOD. 



