THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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The Obituary Record. 



OWNED A CHAIN OF RUBBER STORES. 



ISAAC CROCKER, founder of the Crocker System of rubber 

 stores in New England, died at his summer home, Glendale, 

 New Hampshire, September 28, 1918, aged 61 years. The 

 funeral services were held at his home in Providence, Rhode 

 Island. 



Mr. Crocker was born in Biddeford, Maine, and his boyhood 

 days were spent in Albany, Maine, ijifhere he attended the pub- 

 lic schools, completing his education at the Bethel (Maine) 

 Academy. After his graduation he taught school for a short 

 time; then going to Lowell, JMassachusetts, he entered the em- 

 ploy of the Lowell Rubber Co., managed by Granville Hayward, 

 whose brother, J. Francis Hayward, owned several rubber stores. 

 Advancing rapidly from errand boy to salesinan, and traveling 

 representative, he was given the management of the Lawrence, 

 Massachusetts, store in 1889, and on the death of Mr. Hay- 

 ward in 1896 he went to Providence, Rhode Island, to take charge 

 of the Hope Rubber Co. store. In 1903 he purchased the busi- 

 ness, which comprised eight rubber stores. Since then he has 

 added to the chain and at his death he owned stores in Brock- 

 ton, Salem, Haverhill, Worcester, Lowell, Lawrence and Fitch- 

 burg, in Massachusetts ; Manchester and Nashua, in New Hamp- 

 shire ; Providence and Newport, in Rhode Island. 



Mr. Crocker was fond of travel. He was an ardent hunter 

 and fisherman, with a fad for collecting arms and weapons. He 

 greatly enjoyed his summer residence at Glendale, in the lake 

 region of New Hampshire, and was, at his death, one of the 

 largest landed proprietors of that summer colony. He made his 

 home in Providence, Rhode Island, but spent much of his time 

 in visiting his various stores. 



Mr. Crocker was a generous employer and on various oc- 

 casions was wont to bring all his employes to some central 

 city to celebrate anniversaries, or the opening of new stores, thus 

 fostering a spirit of couradeship which prevailed the entire sys- 

 tem. He was a member of the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, 

 and Knights of Malta. 



He is survived by a widow, and a son and daughter by a former 

 marriage. The son, George I. Crocker, was associated with his 

 father in business. 



Daniel L. Barry, a member of the firm of M. Norton & Co., 

 dealers in rubber scrap and second-hand machinery, Charles- 

 town, Massachusetts, who passed away on October 9, 1918, 

 was born in Boston, Massachusetts, fifty years ago. At the 

 age ef thirty he engaged in the scrap rubber and second-hand 

 rubber-mill machinery business with his brother-in-law, under 

 the firm name of M. Norton & Co. The company, under his 

 supervision, dismantled a large number of rubber mills through- 

 out the country. 



Mr. Barry was a man of pleasing disposition and upright 

 character, highly respected by his business associates and friends. 

 He is survived by his widow, two daughters, and two sons. 



A PROMINENT DEALER IN RUBBER CHEMICALS. 



Milton Birch, vice-president and treasurer of the Westmore- 

 land Chemical and Color Co. since December, 1910, died on 

 October 16, after a brief illness. He was born April 25, 1858. 



The Westmoreland Chemical and Color Co. succeeded the 

 S. P. Wetherill Company, which concern was the successor of 

 S. P. and G. D. Wetherill, Jr., who started in business in Febru- 

 ary, 1872. Mr. Birch entered their employ in 1878, and on March 



31, 1883, was instrumental in organizing the limited stock com- 

 pany which succeeded the original partnership. Shortly after 

 entering the employ of the old concern, Mr. Birch was one of 

 the young men delegated to start the Lehigh Zinc and Iron Co., 

 afterwards the Lehigh Zinc Co., and now part of the present 

 New Jersey Zinc Co. 



Mr. Birch had been a member of the Union League Club of 

 Philadelphia since 1886 and about 20 years ago succeeded to his 

 brother's right in the Loyal Legion. He leaves a widow and 

 two children. 



GENERAL SALES MANAGER OF THERMOID RUBBER CO. 

 Harold F. Blanchard, general sales manager of the Thermoid 

 Rubber Co., and the son of J. F, Blanchard of New York City, 

 died at his home in 

 Trenton, New Jer- 

 sey, on October 19, 

 1918, of pneu- 

 monia which de- 

 veloped after an at- 

 tack of influenza. 

 He was ill but a 

 few days. His 

 widow, who was the 

 daughter of W. J. B. 

 Stokes, president of 

 the Thermoid com- 

 pany, subsequently 

 passed away on Oc- 

 tober 27. The 

 couple leave two 

 young sons. 



Mr. Blanchard was 

 30 years of age. He 

 was born in Roches- 

 ter, New York, and 

 was a graduate en- 

 gineer of Lehigh 

 University. A few 

 years ago he was 



appointed city manager of the Thermoid Rubber Co. in Phila- 

 delphia, Pennsylvania, and about two and a half years ago was 

 made general sales manager of the company in Trenton. The 

 deceased was a member of the Trenton Club and the Trenton 

 Country Club. 



DESIGNER OF MAGNET AND MOTOR-OPERATED BRAKES. 



Frank I. Parker, of the Cutler-Hammer Manufacturing 

 Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died at his home in Milwaukee, 

 October 18, 1918, at the age of 36 years. His death was due 

 to pneumonia contracted after influenza. He was graduated from 

 the University of Wisconsin in June, 1906, and in July be- 

 came engineer in charge of production in the magnet and clutch 

 department of the Cutler-Harnmer company. His early work was 

 with lifting magnets made by this company, he being responsible 

 for many of the exclusive features of these magnets as well as 

 designing several of its magnet and motor-operated brakes. Since 

 1911 Mr. Parker has had charge of sales service work on clutch 

 department products. He was made an associate member of the 

 .American Institute of Electrical Engineers in 1910 and in 1913 

 became a member. He is survived by his widow and one 

 child. 



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