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Obituary Record. 



HENKY C. MORSE. 



THE death of Henry C. Morse, formerly treasurer of the 

 Revere Rubber Co., occurred on the evening of February 

 24, at his home on Commonwealth avenue. Boston, of 

 pneumonia. Mr. Morse was born in Norwood, Massachusetts, 

 January 31, 1838. He occupied the office of treasurer of the 

 Revere Rubber Co. for 20 years, retiring from that position and 

 from active business 10 years ago. The funeral was held from 



his residence on tlie aftcnimm of hcbruary 27, the interment 

 taking place at Forest Hill Cemetery. A more detailed apprecia- 

 tion of his life will appear in our April issue. 



RESOLUTIONS BV THE RUBBER CLUB OF .'kMERIC.\. 



It is with deep sorrow that we learn of the death of our 

 esteemed fellow member, Henry C. Morse, the first president of 

 our club, from its inception in April, 1900, to April, 1901, and 

 for many years one of our honorary vice-presidents — a leader 

 in the development of the rubber manufacturing industry in this 

 country. His unique personality, his faithfulness as a friend, 

 his wisdom as a counsellor will for many a year be remembered 

 by all who were privileged to be counted among his business 

 associates and friends. The Rubber Club of America endeavors, 

 however inadequately, to express, by these resolutions, a deep 

 sense of loss; and it is therefore 



Resolved, That in the death of Henry C. Morse the Rubber 

 Club of America and the rubber industry of this continent 

 have suffered an irreparable loss. 



Resolved, That we extend to his family our appreciation of 

 his noble character, and our heartfelt sympathy in their great 

 bereavement. 



Henry C. Pe.\rson, 

 Elston E. Wadbrook, 

 George P. Whitmore, 



Committee on Resolutions. 



ALEXANDER HENDERSON. 



Alex.\nder I-Ienderson, a director of the Manhattan Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. (Passaic, New Jersey), died on February 7, 

 of pleural pneumonia at the age of 38. 



ALLISON M. STICKNEY. 



Allison M. Sticknev, president of the Wellman Co., Medford, 

 Massachusetts, died at his home in that city on February 13, of 

 pneumonia. He had been in a poor condition of health for some 

 time, but had continued his business activities until pneumonia 

 attacked him. 



He was born in Lowell. Massachusetts, in 1847, son of Jona- 

 than Gage Stickney, a noted .\mcrican inventor, who was one of 



tlie pioneers in llie development of rubber manufacture in Eu- 

 rope. Because of his father's connection with European enter- 

 prises the son received much of his early education in London 

 and Menin, Belgium, where he acquitted himself with marked 

 credit. He early showed that, like his father, he had pronounced 

 inventive ability, and while a very young man he perfected the 

 Wellman sole-cutting machine, making it so efficient that it was 

 adopted in rubber shoe factories all over the world. 



.The wide use of this machine often carried Mr. Stickney 

 abroad, and during one of those trips, in 1905, he sent a series 

 of letters to The Indi.v Rubber World, covering various phases 

 of rubber manufacture in Europe, which attracted a great deal 

 of attention, not only among our American readers, but among 

 rubber people on the other side. The well-known German pub- 

 lication, "Gummi-Zeitung," referred to these letters in a very 

 complimentary way, and quoted from them quite freely. 



It was not simply, however, as the successful inventor and man- 

 ufacturer of highly important rubber making machinery that Mr. 

 Stickney's career was notable. He was equally noteworthy for 

 his patriotism. When, with his father, he returned to this coun- 

 try as a boy of sixteen, the Civil War was raging. He immedi- 

 ately enlisted in the Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry and served 

 in the Union Army until the end of the war, then joining the 

 navy and remaining in that service for a year. At the expiration 

 of that time he became interested in mechanical invention, as 

 already described. He always maintained a most active interest 

 in the G. A. R., being at the time of his death a past commander 

 in a local post at Medford, and a past national department official. 

 He also was prominent in public interests in and about Medford, 

 and during the last ten years of his life served as chairman of 

 the Medford Water and Sewers Commission. 



