May 1, 1916.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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The Obituary Record. 



PRESIDENT ALUANCE RUBBER CO. 



GEORGF. C. RL'SSELL, president and treasurer of the .Alli- 

 ance Rubber Co., Alliance, Ohio, died on March 30 at Los 

 Angeles, California, having gone there in an endeavor to 

 recuperate from an operation for cancer of the liver, to which he 

 had submitted several months previous. Mr. Russell was born 

 August 30, 1872, at Lockland. Ohio. He was at one time gen- 

 eral manager of the Elliott-Fisher Typewriting Co., having 

 his office in New York City. From there he went to the Mc- 

 Caskey Register Co., of Alliance, and in March, 1913. with 

 Milton Bejach, who was also connected with the McCaskey 

 company, he formed the Alliance Rubber Co., of which he 

 was the president and treasurer, and started manufacturing 

 molded specialties. Mr. Russell was a very energetic busi- 

 ness man and interested in other manufacturing concerns in 

 .Mliance. He was also an enthusiastic collector of antiques 

 and works of art, many of which he had gathered from all 

 corners of the earth. He was twice married, and is survived 

 by his second wife, who was Mrs. Ruby Jones McNair, of 

 Newark, Ohio, and three cliildren. 



EXPLORED THE AMAZON. 

 Colin Mackenzie, whose explorations on the Amazon River 

 were of material help to such men as Huber and others in 

 botanical research in rubber lines, died in New York City on 

 April 10 at the age 

 of 79 years. He was 

 born in Glasgow, 

 Scotland, and once 

 ran for Parliament 

 against Lord James 

 Bryce, former am- 

 bassador to this 

 country, but was 

 defeated. He ex- 

 plored and mapped 

 out regions along 

 the Amazon River, 

 where he engaged 

 in the rubber busi- 

 ness. When he came 

 to this country he 

 settled in California, 

 where he was nat- 

 uralized. Mr. Mac- 

 kenzie later became 

 a resident of New 

 York City, where 

 at one time he was 

 reputed to be the 

 largest importer of colTee from South America. His Amazon 

 experiences gave him a membership in the Royal Geographical 

 Society, the Explorers' Club, and other scientific bodies. At the 

 time of his death he was auditor of the Legal .Aid Society, of 

 New York City. 



TWENTY-SIX YEARS AT WOONSOCKET RUBBER CO. 



William Oswald Park, for seven years city clerk of Woon- 

 socket, Rhode Island, and formerly mayor of that city, died 

 recently of Bright's disease. Mr. Park was born in Roxbury, 

 Massachusetts, December 28, 1863; was educated in the Boston 

 public schools and moved to Woonsocket 33 years ago, enter- 

 ing the accounting department of the Woonsocket Rubber Co., 



.Macke.n 



(if which plant his cousin, the late John F. Holt, was super- 

 intendent. Mr. Park remained with this company for 26 years, 

 rising to the position of head office man and holding that posi- 

 tion until he was elected city clerk in 1909. He was promi- 

 nent in politics, having occupied the offices of councilman, alder- 

 man, mayor, clerk of the police commission, and city clerk. 

 The last two offices he held at the time of his death. .Mr. 

 Park was also prominently identified with the Masons, the 

 Woonsocket Business Men's .Association and the Universalist 

 Men's Club. 



A PROMINENT CEMENT MANUFACTURER. 



George David Hazen of the Hazen-Brown Co., manufacturer 

 of rubber cement, died at his home in Brockton, Massachusetts, 

 April 13, as the result of a long illness and a recent surgical 

 operation. Mr. Hazen was born in Dixon, Illinois, nearly 50 

 3-ears ago. His education in the public schools was supple- 

 mented by extensive reading and study. He was for several 

 years employed as a chemist by Eugene Arnstein, Chicago, 

 Illinois, manufacturer of cements, and about 10 years ago with 

 Max Brown, who, until then, had been a salesman with the 

 same concern, formed the Hazen-Brown Co., starting in a 

 small shop in Brockton. As the business grew the factory has 

 been repeatedly enlarged and branch offices were established 

 in a number of manufacturing centers where the goods were 

 in large demand. Mr. Hazen had long been a student and 

 an investigator, and was an expert chemist. He took an active 

 interest in politics, was a director in the Morris Plan Bank of 

 Brockton, a member of the Commercial Club, Economic Club, 

 Chamber of Commerce and .Association of Superintendents and 

 Foremen. He was an enthusiastic fisherman and knew well 

 the best fishing places all over New England. He is survived 

 by a widow and two daughters. 



THIRTY-THREE YEARS WITH ONE CONCERN. 



Edwin Wesley Deane, connected with the J. W. Buckley Rub- 

 ber Co., New York City, for about 33 years, died recently at his 

 home in Brooklyn, New York, aged 49 years. Mr. Deane came 

 to the Buckley company from school, growing up in the rubber 

 business. In 1910, when the concern was incorporated Mr. 

 Deane was given an interest in the business and elected secre- 

 tary of the company. He was well known to all the rubber 

 trade and especially liked for his courteous treatment of every 

 one with whom he came in contact. Mr. Deane was an example 

 of a worthy, industrious and competent man, and his loss will 

 be greatly felt, not only by his immediate associates but by 

 many in the mechanical rubber trade. He was affiliated with 

 high IMasonic luKlies, Royal .Arcanum and Loyal .Association. 

 He is survived by a wife and daughter. 



BUILT UP A LARGE WASTE BUSINESS. 



.Abraham Oiipenlieimcr. senior member of the firm of Oppcn- 

 heimcr &■ Co., waste material and scrap rubber dealers, Buffalo, 

 New York, died March 6 at his residence in that city. He was 

 born in a small village in Messen, Darmstadt, Germany, in 1841, 

 coming to America at the age of 14. He began his business 

 career at Nunda, New York, removing to Westfield and then to 

 Buffalo in 1871, where he built up an extensive business. He 

 was a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Shrine and 

 of the -Acacia Club, and was an ex-president of Beth Temple 

 Zion of Buffalo. He leaves a widow, three daughters and two 

 sons, Nathan and Walter, who were associated with him in 

 business. 



