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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



LMav 1, 1914. 



The Obituary Record. 



JOHN H. fORSYTH. 



JOHN HAMILTON FORSYTH, associated for lu-arly fifty 

 years with tlie Boston Belting Co., died on April 14 at his 

 residence in Winthrop, Massachusetts. Mr. Forsyth was 

 born in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, March 19, 1842. At a 

 comparatively early age he became iilcntilicd with the Boston 

 Belting Co., with wliich his father. William l-ors\th. was con- 



J. ELLWOUD LEE. 



J. l''llwood Lee, president of the Lee Tire & Rubber Co., of 

 Consliohocken, Pennsylvania, died April 8 at his home in that 

 city, of heart trouble and hardening of the arteries. He was 

 born in 1860, and in 1883. when but 23 years of age, he started 

 a small business in the manufacture of surgical rubber goods. 



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nected. He left the company, however, temporarily, to make a 

 thorough study of the machinists' trade, and having thoroughly 

 mastered this subject he returned to the company as its master 

 mechanic. He held this position for a nuinber of years, and 

 then became assistant superintendent. 



Mr. Forsyth was well known to many of the older mill men 

 through New England, and in fact other sections of the coun- 

 try, whose plants he visited with a view to installing in them 

 rubber covered rollers and other lines of rubber goods. He re- 

 tired from active participation in the company in 1912, at which 

 time his associates addressed him a letter of appreciation, from 

 which the following is a paragraph : 



"Your connection with the Boston Belting Co. has closely 

 continued, almost without interruption, for over fifty years, a 

 remarkably long period. You have w'itnessed in that time great 

 changes in many ways, and have been yourself an important 

 factor in the growth and development of the company's business. 

 You have served the company faithfully and well, and with 

 your devoted brothers have applied painstaking care, ingenuity, 

 skill and energy in various ways, which have contributed to the 

 welfare and success of the Boston Belting Co." 



Mr. Forsyth was broadly philanthropic, as an illustration of 

 which might be cited the great Forsyth Dental Infirmary given 

 by himself and his brother Thomas to the school children of 

 Boston in memory of James Bennett and George Henry Forsyth. 

 This institution, the initial donation for which was half a mil- 

 lion dollars, was not only original in its character, but almost 

 incalculable in the benefits that will flow out from it year after 

 year to the poor children of Boston and vicinity. 



The fimeral services were held at St. John's F.piscopal church 

 in Winthrop on April 17, and during that hour all work at 

 the Boston P.elting Co.'s factory and at the Dental Infirmary 

 was suspended. 



J Ll.l.WOOn LEE. 



This prospered, and under the name of the J. EUwood Lee Co. 

 became a very well known and successful concern. Later he 

 began the inanufacture of tires, and the name of the corpora- 

 tion was changed to the Lee Tire & Rubber Co. Mr. Lee was 

 not only a man of considerable inventive genius, but he was 

 an organizer and executive of marked ability, and his business 

 career was an exceptionally successful one. 



His wife and three children — J. Ellwood Lee, Jr., Mrs. Elsie 

 Carthwaite and Miss Nina Lee — survive him. 



GEOKG HEISE. 



Georg Heise, director of the Hannoversche Gummiwerke, "Ex- 

 celsior," of Hannover-Linden, Germany, died March 24. He had 

 been connected with this company for 42 years, and was not 

 only successful as a rubber manufacturer, but was widely known 

 and very popular in the rubber trade of Germany. 



JACOB HAMMER. 



Word has been received of the death a few days ago at El 

 Centro, California, of Jacob Hammer, for the last ten years 

 president of the Colorado Rubber Co. 



Mr. Hammer's ancestors were among the pioneers in the set- 

 tlement of St. Paul. Minnesota, and as a boy he was connected 

 with a bank in that city. Later he joined the St. Paul Rubber 

 Co. and became its secretary and treasurer, but about ten years 

 ago his health began to fail and it was necessary for him to seek 

 a different climate, so he went to Denver and took up his resi- 

 dence there and established the Colorado Rubber Co.. Ix-coming 

 its president. 



Tho this change of residence undoubtedly prolonged his life 

 many years, it did not restore him to his former physical con- 

 dition ; but notwithstanding the fact of his continued ill health, 

 he bore himself with a cheerful stoicism, applied himself in- 

 ilustriously to bis work and was agreeable and companionable 



