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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1920. 



The Obituary Record. 



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Oliver S. Picher. 



PROMINENT IN THE LEAD INDUSTRY. 



LIVER Shei'Pard Picher, president of The Eagle-Picher Lead 

 Co., died after a short iUness of pneumonia, at his hoine 

 in Winnetka, Illinois, April 26, 1920. 



Mr. Picher was born at 

 Springfield, Missouri, but 

 spent his boyhood and 

 youth in California. He 

 was a graduate of Leland 

 Stanford Junior Univer- 

 sity and Columbia Law 

 School. After three years 

 m the office of Ehhu 

 Root, of New York, he 

 went to Joplin, Missouri, 

 where his father, Judge 

 O. H. Picher, was presi- 

 dent of The Picher Lead 

 Co., with the intention of 

 practicing law there, but 

 soon became interested in 

 manufacturing and aban- 

 doned the law for busi- 

 ness. In 1906 he became 

 secretary of The Picher 

 Lead Co., a position 

 which he held for three 

 years, until he was elected 

 •president to succeed his father, who had retired and gone to live 

 in California. 



In 1916 The Eagle White Lead Co. and The Picher Lead 

 Co. were merged into The Eagle-Picher Lead Co., and Mr. 

 Picher became president of the consolidated companies, a posi- 

 tion which he filled with success until his death. 



He was director and chairman of the finance committee of 

 the .\merican Zinc Institute : a member of the Society of Co- 

 lonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution, and Columbia Chapter of 

 Alpha Delta Phi. His clubs were the University, Mid-Day, 

 XJnion League, Evanston Golf, Indian Hill Golf; and the Mid- 

 wick Country Club, Los Angeles. 



In 1904 Mr. Picher married Emily Stanton, a daughter of 

 ^William Stanton and a niece of Edwin M. Stanton, President 

 Lincohi's famous Secretary of War, and had four children, two 

 sons and two daughters, Oliver, Charlotte, Stanton and Muriel, 

 .all living. 



Mr. Picher was a man of unusual vigor, and exceptionally 

 winning personality, so that every man in the company feels 

 his death a personal loss, as do his many friends in the rubber 

 and paint trades. His knowledge, judgment and ability found 

 expression in the business which stands a monument to his 

 •talent. Although primarily a business man, he became chief ex- 

 •pert in every technical activity of his company. He was an 

 accountant, metaUurgist, a mining engineer, a chemist, a manu- 

 facturer, a financier, and withal gifted with such rare charm 

 ■of per.'ionality as brought to him literally thousands of friends in 

 the business and technical world. 



LEADING CHEMICAL MANUFACTURER. 



I. Frank Stone, for many years at the head of the National 

 Aniline & Chemical Co., died in New York on May 10, 1920, 

 in his tifty-fourth year. He was bom in Chicago in 1867 and 

 •went into the drug business, organizing the firm of Stone & 

 Ware when he was 22. In 1897 he moved to New York, merging 

 with the Schoelkopf, Hartford & Hanna Co. three years later. 

 He liec^nie president of the National Aniline company in 1906, re- 



taining the office till last year, when he retired. Mr. Stone was 

 vice-president of the Drug and Chemical Club, president of the 

 Chemists' Club, a director of the Schoelkopf Aniline and Chemi- 

 cal Works, Inc., of the Contact Process Co. and RoUin Chemical 

 Co., and belongs to many clubs. Me leaves his widow and one 

 daughter. 



CHICAGO MANAGER OF TWITCHELL GAUGE CO. 



Ma.N. D. Bondel, manager of the TwitchcU Gauge Co., Chicago, 

 Illinois, died suddenly from heart failure at Chicago on May 7, 

 1920. 



Mr. Bendel succeeded to the management of the Twitchell 

 Gauge Co. in 1912 shortly after the company was acquired by 

 A. Schrader's Son, Inc., of Brooklyn, New York. In addition 

 (o his duties as sales executive of the Twitchell company, he also 

 conducted the Chicago branch of the Schrader company. He was 

 highly successful as a salesman and the rapid expansion of the 

 Twitchell business was in a great measure due to his aggressive 

 personality and enthusiasm. 



FOUNDER OF THE KAUFMAN RUBBER CO. 



Jacob Kaufman, founder of the Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited, 

 the well-known Canadian rubber footwear manufacturer, who 

 died on April 20, was markedly a self-made man. He was born 

 on a farm in New 

 Hamburg, Ontario, 

 in July, 1847 ; went 

 to the village school 

 and learned the car- 

 penter's trade. At 

 thirty he married 

 one of his employ- 

 er's daughters, 

 moved to Berlin, 

 ;ind started a sash 

 and door factory, 

 •ivhich prospered. 



I'ntil 1900 his in- 

 uTi-sts were entirely 

 in lumber, in saw 

 mills, in charcoal 

 and wood alcohol 

 factories. Then he 

 became interested 

 in rubber and the 

 Berlin Rubber Foot- 

 wear Co. Three 

 years later he 

 started the .Merchants Rubber Co., which he sold in 1906 to 

 the Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co., Limited. The following 

 year he started the Kaufman Rubber Co., Limited, at Berlin, 

 which in the late war was rechristened Kitchener, building and 

 repeatedly enlarging the plant, that is now one of the most 

 modern rubber footwear factories in Canada. 



Mr. Kaufman took part in the public and religious life of the 

 town he had built up. He leaves his widow, two daughters and 

 two sons, three brothers and four sisters. 



OVER THIRTY YEARS WITH TYER RUBBER CO. 



Frank Tyler Carlton, purchasing agent of the Tyer Rubber 

 Co., Andover, Massachusetts, died recently at his home in An- 

 dover after a brief illness. He was a native of Andover and 

 was always active in the affairs of the community, especially in 

 connection with the church life of the village. 



Mr. Carlton began his business career with the Tyer Rubber 



Jacob K.-\ufm.' 



