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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1913. 



The Obituary Record. 



EDWARD BEECHER KELLEY. 



EDWARD BEECHER KELLEY, treasurer of the Mechan- 

 ical Fabric Co., Providence, Rhode Island, died at his resi- 

 dence in Brookline, Massachusetts, May 13, 1913, of pneu- 

 monia. He was sick only five days. 



Mr. Kelley was born in Canton, New York. July 22, 1859, the 

 son of Joseph H. and Samantha L. Wcslcott Kelley. He was ed- 



El)\V.\RD Beecher Ivelley. 



ucated at the public schools of Canton and later attended the 

 Hungerford Collegiate Institute, Adams, New York, and the 

 Peekskill Military Academy, Peekskill-on-the-Hudson. Immed- 

 iately upon finishing school he began work in the office of the 

 Stedman & Fuller Manufacturing Co., Lawrence, Massachu- 

 setts, and removed with that company to Providence in 1885. 

 When the Mechanical Fabric Co. was organized in 1890 he went 

 with his brother as one of the managers, and in 1899, upon the 

 death of the late George A. Fuller, was elected treasurer and 

 served in that capacity and also as director to the time of 

 his death. 



He came from a long line of New England ancestry. His 

 father's ancestor, John Kelley, settled in Newbury, Massachu- 

 setts, in 1636, and Stukeley Westcott, his mother's ancestor, came 

 to Rhode Island with Roger Williams and received the first 

 deed of land granted in that colony. 



He had a wide acquaintance with the customers of the Me- 

 chanical Fabric Co. both here and abroad, the necessities of the 

 business taking him frequently across the water. He was a 

 man of a kindly, sociable nature, making friends quickly and 

 holding them through life. He will be greatly missed not only 

 by his immediate associates in business, but by a very wide circle 

 of customers and friends. He was a member of the Rubber 

 Club and rarely missed attending its gatherings. 



He is survived by his wife, Maud .\. Kelley, and his only 

 brother, Arthur L. Kelley. president of the Mechanical Fabric Co. 



GEORGE PELLINGER. 



George Pellinger, president of the Vulcanized Rubber Co., 251 

 Fourth avenue, New York, with factory at Morrisville, Pennsyl- 

 vania, died suddenly Saturday night. May 24. The funeral 

 took place Tuesday, May 27, at his home in Weehawken. New 



Jersey. A sketch of his career, together with his photograph, 

 will appear in our July issue. 



ALANSON D. BROWN. 



Alanson D. Brown, for many years the head of the Hamilton- 

 Brown Shoe Co., St. Louis, Missouri, one of the largest dis- 

 tributors of rubber footwear in America, died on May 10, at San 

 Antonio, Texas, where he went some time ago owing to a nervous 

 breakdown. Mr. Brown was one of the best known men in the 

 entire footwear trade. He was a man of the most extraordinary 

 personal energy and powers"^ of application. Undoubtedly it was 

 this intense devotion to business that finally undermined his 

 health. 



He was born near Albany, New York, on March 21, 1847. He 

 went West to seek his fortune before he had attained his majority. 

 In 1872 he formed a partnership with James Hamilton under tlic 

 firm name of Hamilton & Brown — which was later changed to 

 the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. — for the purpose of establishing a 

 wholesale footwear business in St. Louis. About ten years later 

 the firm began the manufacture of footwear, and in a short time 

 had secured an enormous business in this line. 



Mr. Brown was married in 1877 to Miss Ella Bills, of Waltham, 

 Massachusetts. His brother, George W. Brown, is the head of 

 the Brown Shoe Co., of St. Louis — another large distributor of 

 rubber footwear. 



Mr. Brown devoted himself, almost without respite or relaxa- 

 tion, to his business — and to his church. He was a profoundly 

 religious man — as much so on Mondays and the following five 

 days as on Sundays. Business and religion with him were con- 

 stantly interwoven. He was a man of the highest integrity and 

 the finest sense of business honor. 



JAMES WALKER. 



News has been received of the death on May 8 of Mr. James 

 Walker, the founder and chairman of James Walker & Co., 

 Limited, of London. Mr. Walker was in his seventy-fourth year. 

 He was well known in the rubber trade because of the variety of 

 machinery and appliances used in that trade made in the "Lion 

 Works," Garford street, London, which he founded many years 

 ago. He was a man of sterling character and universally 

 respected. 



The organization of the house will not be changed by his death. 

 The management of the company will be continued under the 

 direction of Mr. George H. Cook. 



MR. KLEINERT'S WILL. 



The will of Isaac B. Kleinert, the founder of the I. B. Kleinert 

 Rubber Co., who died April 18, has been probated. The value 

 of the estate is given as more than $100,000 realty, and more 

 than $100,000 personalty. Bequests are left to the United 

 Hebrew Charities, and the Home for Aged Hebrews. His 

 widow is left a cash legacy of $75,000, together with an annuity 

 of $6,000, and a life interest in his realty holdings. The greater 

 part of the remainder of the estate is divided between his two 

 daughters and the children of a third daughter, now deceased. 



One exceedingly interesting paragraph in the will, char- 

 acteristic of the man, and of the interest he took in those in 

 any way associated with him, is found in the following provision 

 for his needy relatives : "I give and bequeath in trust to my 

 daughters. Mrs. Leonie B. Guinzburg, of No. 115 West Eighty- 

 sixth street, and Hermone E. Kleinert, of No. 31 West Eighty- 

 seventh street, the sum of $10,000, the interest of which shall 

 be distributed among poor and needy relatives of mine, this to 

 continue for fifty years." 



