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I lie deceased was born 49 years ago, in New York city, being 

 the son of George Milton and Lois Mabbett Allerton. His 

 father, early in life, had become employed by the Goodyear's 

 India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Co., in their New York store, 

 in Fulton street. He soon had charge of their New Y'ork busi- 

 ness, and in 1856 took over the management of the company. 

 In 1867 he removed to Naugatuck, where the factory is located, 

 the New York end of the business being taken by John D. Ver- 

 meule, who today is president of the company. The elder Aller- 

 ton was largely instrumental in building up the "Goodyear Glove" 

 company from a small beginning to the most important propor- 

 tions and standing which it now has. When he died (Decem- 

 ber 2, 1882), he had been connected with the business for nearly 

 30 years, and filled the office of president of the company. The 

 elder Allerton was a man of unusual breadth of view. He was 

 active in other business affairs than the rubber industry, as 

 instanced by the mention, in the last India Rubber World, of his 

 connection with the early manufacture of steam fire engines. An 

 illustration of the enterprising character of Mr. Allerton is to be 

 found in his belief that the rubber trade should have an organ, 

 and with this idea in view, when such a journal was first pro- 

 jected, he spent thousands of dollars in its promotion. The 

 Rubber Em, by the way, was the pioneer journal devoted to the 

 general rubber trade. It was established in New York, Septem- 

 ber 25, 1880, and published weekly for a little more than two 

 years. The rubber trade was small in those days as compared 

 with its extent today, and the paper never had a very liberal 

 support. 



George M. Allerton, Jr., worked for some years at the fac- 

 tory of the India Rubber Glove Company, under his father's 

 supervision, and later, going through various departments until 

 he became secretary of the corporatino. When the sale of the 

 Allerton interests to the United States Rubber Co. occurred, in 

 April, 1893. he became a director in the latter company, which 

 position he held until the annual meeting in 1896. About that 

 time he sold his shares and bought an interest in the Seamless 

 Rubber Co. (New Haven, Connecticut), of which he was there- 

 after the active head. Under his intelligent effort the business 

 of the Seamless company grew steadily, until the factory grew 

 to be one of the best equipped in the druggists' sundries branch. 

 At the time of his death Mr. Allerton was vice-president and 

 general manager of the Seamless company. It may be mentioned, 

 in passing, that this company has had a most interesting history, 

 having numbered among its presidents such distinguished mem- 

 bers of the trade as the late Joseph Banigan and the late 

 George A. Alden. 



Mr. Allerton was connected in an important way with the 

 management of the Newton Rubber Work'; ( Newton Upper 

 Falls, Massachusetts), manufacturers of rubber tires, prior to 

 the merger of this company, in 1800. with others to form the 

 International Automobile and Vehicle Tire Co. 



In (lie organization of the Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' 

 Association, in September, 1898, Mr. Allerton, as representative 

 of the Seamless Rubber Co., took an active part, and he was 

 thereafter an important factor in the success of this organization, 

 serving generally as a member of the executive committee. 



Mr. Allerton, on June 20. 1883. married Miss Josephirc Web- 

 ster, of Waterbury, who survives, with two daughters arid a son 

 — Mrs. Ralph Bristol, Miss Lois Mabbett Allerton, and George 

 Milton Allerton. He is survived also by two brothers, Charles 

 A. Allerton, of Waterbury. and Robert Allerton, of Orange. 

 Funeral services wen- held in Hall Mem.. rial Chapel. Riverside 

 cemetery, Waterbury, on October 18, being conducted by the 

 Rev. John X. Lewis, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, of 

 the same city. The interment was private. 



Personally, George M. Allerton gave every one the impression 

 that he was a wonderfully strong man. He was florid, ener- 

 getic, apparently robust, always in the best of spirits, full of 



the joy of life. Few in the trade thought his illness as more 

 than a temporary indisposition and his passing came as a great 

 shock. Warm-hearted, optimistic, friendly, energetic, he leaves 

 a host of friends and sincere mourners. 



THE LATE COLONEL THEODORE A. DODGE. 



The death was announced on October 26, at the Chateau des- 

 Rozieres, in Nanteuil-le-Haudouin, of Colonel Theodore Ayrault 

 Dodge, one of the foremost figures in the American colony of 

 Paris, in his sixty-seventh year. Colonel Dodge had distinguished 

 himself during the American civil war and in later military 

 service and he was a brilliant historian, besides having had 

 a notable business career. 



Theodore A. Dodge was born May 28, 1842, at Pittsfield, 

 Massachusetts. His generation was the eighth in descent from 

 William Dodge, who settled in Salem in 1629. His father was 

 a well-known writer, N. S. Dodge, who went to England a& 

 commissioner to the Great London Exhibition of 1851, and for 

 some years remained abroad with his family. The subject of 

 this sketch first went to school in Belgium and later in Berlin, 

 and finished a course at Heidelberg. It was his plan to study law 

 and practice at the American bar, but on his return to the 



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Theodore A. Dodge. 



United States, in 1861, the war having broke out, he volunteered 

 as a private soldier in the army of the Potomac. Young as 

 he was, he had received a military training under Major Gen- 

 eral Von Frohreich, of the Prussian army, which proved of 

 such advantage that at the age of 21 he was in command of a 

 regiment. He was in every battle in which the army of the 

 Potomac engaged, from Fair Oaks, on; he was wounded at 

 Manassas and Chantilly and lust a leg at Gettysburg. Colonel 

 Dodge received four brevets for gallant service and was finally 

 placed on the retired list on account of his wounds, in 1870. 



Colonel Dodge was the foremost American writer on mili- 

 tary subjects, his work including an eloborate and scholarly 

 "History of the Art of War," in several volumes. He lec- 

 tured at Harvard ami Lowell Institute, made many public ad- 

 dresses, and trawled throughput the world to view the battle- 

 fields of great captains, having crossed oceans more than eighty 

 times. He was also an authority on horsemanship. 



In 1S70 Colonel Dodge became treasurer and manager of the 

 McKay Sewing Machine Co.. and during the ten years that he 

 held that position the company paid dividends of over $500,000 



