Febrvary 1, 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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The Obituary Record. 



WATSON H. LINBURG. 



WATSOX H. I.IXBURG, president of the United & Globe 

 Rubber Cos., and prominent in the business activities of 

 his state, died after a long illness on January 5 at his 

 home in Trenton, New Jersey, aged 76 years. 



Mr. Linburg was born December 5, 1839, in Conshohocl<en, 

 Pennsylvania. In his early manhood, during the Civil war, he en- 

 listed in the Union Army, was taken prisoner at Chancellorsville 

 and spent a long time in Libby prison. After the war he engaiiod 



found l)ut Httle time for outside interests. He was, however, a 

 member of the Woonsocket Business Men's Association, the 

 Friendly Sons of St. Patrick and the Christian Doctrine Society 

 of St. Charles' Church. 



After the funeral, which was conducted by the Rev. John H. 

 Whitaker, 150 employes from the factory formed two lines be- 

 tween which the mourners marched, fo.Uowed by bearers con- 

 veying the casket. The pallbearers, who were all men holding 

 n.-sii'ni>il>lo i.nsitions in the Woonsocket factory, were as follows: 



W.ATsox H. Linburg. 



Wiu.i-\M Lyall. 



Michael M. Fly: 



in the dry goods business until he transferred activities to the 

 rubber field. 



Mr. Linburg's connection with the rubber industry dated from 

 1878, when he became a member of the Hamilton Rubber Co. 

 With characteristic thoroughness, he mastered all the details of 

 the business and it was not long ere he was regarded as an 

 authority in his line. In addition to filling the office of president 

 of the United & Globe Rubber Cos., he was president of the 

 Globe Tire Co., vice-president of the Spring Lake Hotel Co., 

 and served as director of the First National Bank of Trenton, 

 the Standard Fire Insurance Co., the Inter-State Fair Association 

 and the Mercer Hospital. He was vice-president of the Lotus 

 Club of Trenton and member of the following organizations : 

 Trenton Country Club, Golf Club of Spring Lake, Railroad 

 Club of New York, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Pennsyl- 

 vania Society and the Trenton Masonic Lodge. He is survived 

 by his widow and a daughter, Mrs. Horace B. Tobin. 



MICHAEI, M. FLYNN. 



Michael M. Flynn, general manager and superintendent of the 

 Woonsocket factory of the American Wringer Co., died on De- 

 cember 30, 1915, after a brief illness. 



Mr. Flynn was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, January 3, 

 1858. When a mere lad he entered the employ of the Bailey 

 Wringing Machine Works, which factory later became the Woon- 

 socket factory of the American Wringer Co. He gradually 

 worked himself through the different departments of the con- 

 cern and was made superintendent in 1890, and for the last 

 quarter century he has devoted all his energies to the promotion 

 of the wringer business. Ever absorbed in his family, Mr. Flynn 



Jesse P. Walsh, John F. Sweeney, John T. Gahan, William Ma- 

 kins, Samuel N. Greenwood, James W. Quinn, Charles Vahraus 

 and William Fogarty. 



Mr. Flynn is survived by his widow, two sons and two 

 daughters. 



WILLIAM LYALL. 



William Lyall, venerable president of the Brighton Mills, Pas- 

 saic, New Jersey, designer of innumerable types of tire fabrics, 

 died suddenly on January 13 in the seventy-sixth year of his age. 

 He was the son of Charles Lyall, of Dunfermline, Scotland, and 

 Mary Cooper, of Perth, Scotland. The father came to the United 

 States in 1839, and soon laid the foundations of a prosperous com- 

 mercial career. 



William Lyall was born on October 28, 1840. in Jersey City, 

 New Jersey, and in 1861 commenced his commercial career. Suc- 

 cess marked his efforts from the start, and he rapidly built up 

 a thriving business, being successively connected with the Planet 

 Mills, the United States Corset Co., the Chelsea Jute Mills and 

 other manufacturing enterprises. 



In later years he established the J. & W. Lyall Loom and Ma- 

 chine Works, for the manufacture of textile machinery, particu- 

 larly the positive motion loom, of which his brother and part- 

 ner, James Lyall, now deceased, was the inventor. This loom 

 was a marked improvement in weaving machinery, and was the 

 basis of many other textile enterprises. Associated with his 

 brother in the early development of special fabrics, he was the 

 pioneer in tire fabric making, that has developed from the hose 

 pipe bicycle tire of 1895, to the present day auto tire of exact- 

 ing requirements. 



