August 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



577 



The Obituary Record. 



FREDERICK M. SHEPARD. 



FKKDERICK M. SHEPARD, for five years president of the 

 United States Rubber Co., for over a third of a century 

 president of the Goodyear Rubber Co., and for sixty years 

 a prominent figure in the rubber industry of America, passed 

 away after an attack of appendicitis, at his summer liomc in Nor 

 folk, Connecticut, on June 30, in his 86th year. 



Mr. Shepard was born in Norfolk, on September 24. 1827. His 

 father was Captain John .Andrus Shepard, a farmer, hotel-keeper, 

 the postmaster of his town, and a prominent character in that 

 community. Mr. Sliepard's original American ancestor was Ed- 

 ward Shepard, who came from England and settled in Cambridge, 

 Mass., in 1638 — from which it will be seen that Mr. Shepard 

 might very properly be referred to as belonging to the "old 

 stock." After graduating from the local school he helped his 

 father for a short time, and then, being an ambitious youth, went 

 to Hartford and secured a position in one of the largest stores 

 of that city. But he had his eyes on a still wider field, and about 

 the time he reached his majority he went to New York and be- 

 came connected with a retail shoe store. Soon after, in 1853, he 

 ■entered the rubber industry (where he was destined to 

 be conspicuous for two generations), becoming secretary of the 

 Union India Rubber Co., of which he was later the president. 



In 1872, in association with the late Joseph A. Minott, he estab- 

 lished the Goodyear Rubber Co., becoming its president, a posi- 

 tion that he continued to occupy until seven years ago, when he 

 retired because of advancing years ; still, however, remaining on 

 the board of directors. In 1896 he was elected president of the 

 United- States Rubber Co., which important post he held for 

 five y^ejirs. During his incumbency, and largely through his ac- 

 tivities, this corporation secured control of the Boston Rubber 

 Shoe Co., then — as for many years before that time — the largest 

 rubber footwear manufacturing concern in the world. In addi- 

 tion to these rubber associations Mr. Shepard was connected in 

 an influential capacity with the Lambertville Rubber Co. and the 

 Rubber Clothing Co. 



Important and commanding as were his relations with the rub- 

 ber industry, they by no means engrossed his entire attention, as 

 he was an active director during the greater part of his life in a 

 variety of other undertakings. In 1868 he took up his residence 

 in East Orange, New Jersey, and soon became prominent in its 

 business and civic affairs. He was chiefly instrumental in estab- 

 lishing the East Orange Safe Deposit and Trust Co., The East 

 Orange National Bank and the Orange Water Co. He was also 

 one of the commissioners who constructed the fine system of 

 parks in Essex County, for which $4,000,000 were raised. He took 

 a profound interest in the social and religious welfare of the 

 community, acting as president of the Free Library, and as a 

 member of tlie advisory board of the Orange Memorial Hospital, 

 erecting and equipping for that institution a large pavilion for 

 the treatment of tubercular diseases, as a memorial to his son. 

 He was extremely active all his life in the work of the local Pres- 

 byterian Church and officiated as superintendent of the Sunday 

 School for over a quarter of a century. His chief benefactions, 

 however, were directed toward the welfare of the little Connec- 

 ticut village where he was born. They included a public park for 

 the town, a lawn and fountain adjoining the railroad station, 

 ample grounds for one of the churches, and various school im- 

 provements ; and in all possible ways he showed his interest in 

 the development and well-being of the village where he continued 

 to have his summer home during the greater part of his life. 



Mr. Shepard was a man of the soundest business judgment, 

 which was reflected in the practically uniform success of every 

 undertaking upon which he embarked; but, notwithstanding his 



financial success — which enabled him to accumulate a fortune 

 generally estimated at several millions — he was personally most 

 unassuming and democratic. He showed the same discrimina- 

 tion in his charities as in his business affairs, and his benevolences 

 were all of a practical character. It was his good fortune to be 

 permitted to round out a long life of honorable and successful 

 industrv and continuous tho unobtrusive usefulness. 



Frederick M. Shepard. 



He was married in 1854 to Annie C. Rockwell, who, together 

 with two sons and three daughters, survives him. The funeral 

 was held at his summer home in Norfolk, and the burial was in 

 Greenwood cemetery, Brooklyn. 



ANTHONY N. BRADY. 



The death of .Anthony N. Brady on July 22 in London, at 

 the age of 70, has removed from the scene a noted financier 

 of the later school. Wall Street did not know of his existence 

 previous to 1891, when he secured a suburban trolley contract 

 and rapidly rose to power in the world of finance. Apparently, 

 everything he touched prospered, and he gradually extended 

 his operations to include railroads ; gas, electric light and power 

 companies ; banks and industrial enterprises. 



Mr. Brady was born August 22, 1843. in Lille, France, whither 

 his parents had fled from Ireland to escape political persecution. 

 They emigrated shortly afterwards to .America, settling at Troy, 

 New York, where the son attended school till be reached the 

 age of 13, when he had to assist in the support of the family. 

 He occupied one position after another at the Delevan House, 

 Albany. This brought him into touch with many public men, 

 and was the foundation of ultimately valuable friendships, which 

 later on helped him to carry out his different plans. 



At the age of 21 he found the w'ished-for opportunity of start- 

 ing in business on his own account, opening a tea store in 

 .Albany. This venture proving successful, he established a chain 

 of such stores in Albany, Troy and other neighboring cities. The 

 money he made in tea, he invested in stone, cornering the sup- 

 ply of granite available for paving and building operations in 

 Albany. 



The boldness of this stroke impressed various prominent 



