History of Burlington and Mercer counties, New Jersey : with biographical sketches of many of their pioneers and prominent men, Part 60

Author: Woodward, E. M. (Evan Morrison) cn; Hageman, John Frelinghuysen
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1096

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In 1866 he bought a eroekery and glassware busi- ness at Jersey City, and in 1872 he formed a partner- ship with Millington & Astbury, who had established the Carroll Street pottery, in Trenton, in 1860. Mr. Millington withdrew from the concern in 1874, and Mr. Astbury died in 1878, leaving Mr. Maddock sole owner of the business, in which, on Jan. 1, 1882, he associated his sons, John, Charles S., Archibald M., and Harry S. The Maddoeks manufacture special- ties mostly, viz .: Sanitary earthenware, druggists' specialties, scale-plates, telegraph insulators, ete. They have gone largely in the manufacture of under- glaze decorated tea, toilet, and dinner sets. Beside his pottery business, Mr. Maddoek carries on the farm upon which he resides, near Liberty Corner, Somerset Co., N. J.

He married first, in 1844, Honora Possoms, who died in New York City in 1850, leaving two sons, William, who died a young man, and John, before mentioned. His present wife, whom he married in 1851, was Isabella S. Middleton, by whom he has children as follows : Charles S., Archibald M., Harry S., and Janet C.

CITY POTTERY .- This was the first pottery fitted up for the manufacture of white granite and eream- colored ware exclusively. It was started by Rhodes & Yates, in 1859. In 1864, Mr. Rhodes died, and in 1865 the firm beeame Yates & Titus. Mr. Titus re- tired in 1870, and the firm beeame Yates, Bennet & Allan. In 1875 the City Pottery Company was in- corporated, with James Yates, president, John M. Al- lan, treasurer, and George Allan, seeretary.

The present officers are S. W. Davenport, presi- dent and treasurer, George Allan, secretary, and John Rhodes, superintendent. The same kinds of ware are manufactured as at first. This pottery has four kilns, and one hundred and twenty-five hands are em- ployed.

GLASGOW POTTERY .- This was started in 1859, at its present location on Carroll Street, by Ralph H. and William T. Shreve. It was at first a manufae- tory of yellow ware. In 1863, John Moses & Co. rented it for a year, with the privilege of purchasing it at the expiration of that time. Jan. 1, 1865, they purchased it, and it has since been conducted by them. Reticence on the part of the firm prevents any further account of this pottery.

CLINTON STREET POTTERY .- In 1863, Charles Coxon and J. F. Thompson, under the firm-name of

At the time of Mr. Thompson's retirement this was one of the smallest potteries in the city, and it is now among the largest. It has eleven kilns, and two hundred hands are employed. White granite, C. C., decorated, and druggists' wares are manufactured here.

ETRURIA POTTERY .- William Bloor. Joseph Ott, and Thomas Booth, under the firm-name of Bloor, Ott & Booth, in 1863 ereeted the Etruria Pottery, on Clin- ton Street, near the Belvidere and Delaware Railroad. In 1864, Mr. Booth sold his interest to Garret S. Bur- roughs, and in 1865 John H. Brewer purchased the interest of Mr. Burroughs, and the firm beeame Bloor, Ott & Brewer. In 1871, Mr. Bloor retired, and the firm became Ott & Brewer. This firm continued the business till 1877, when the Etruria Pottery Com- pany was incorporated, with Joseph Ott, president ; J. H. Brewer, treasurer ; and J. H. Hartpenee, seere- tary. These officers continued till the dissolution of the company in 1881. Ott & Brewer then became proprietors again, and the business is continued by that firm.

Until 1876 white granite and C. C. ware were the principal staples of this pottery. Decorated ware has sinee been added. This pottery has six kilns, and two hundred hands are employed.

JOSEPH OTT .- The Ott family were early residents of Amwell township, Hunterdon County, where lived Joseph Ott, the grandfather of the subject of this sketeh. He was a prominent farmer, and by trade a blacksmith. He married Deborah Hart, daughter of Jolin Hart, one of the signers of the Deelaration of Independence, over whose remains a handsome mon- ument has been erected by the State at Hopewell vil- lage. The children of Joseph Ott were John Hart Ott, born May 17, 1793, father of our subject ; Ame- lia, who married Peter Lowe; Deborah, who married Samuel Larowe; and Sarah, who became the wife of Matthias Servis. John H. Ott married. on Sept. 28, 1815, Ann (born April 11, 1789), daughter of Capt. Jacob Servis, and passed the greater part of his life in tilling the soil of the Servis homestead in Dela- ware township, Hunterdon County. The children were Clarissa, born Aug. 27, 1821, married Alpheus Wagner; Susan M., born April 26, 1825, married William P. Brewer; and Joseph, born Sept. 2, 1827. The father died Dec. 29, 1845.

Joseph Ott was born on the old Ott homestead in Amwell township, on the date indieated above. Until he reached the age of seven lie attended the district

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school of that loeality, and then lived on the Servis farm until eighteen or nineteen years of age. At that time he removed to Lambertville, N. J., and eu- tered the employ of his unele, William P. Brewer, a prominent hotel-keeper of that place. He was sub- sequently employed in the Merchants' Hotel in New York City, and for a short period at Crater's Hotel in Flemington.

About 1857, Mr. Ott came to Trenton, and, in part- nership with William P. Brewer, opened a livery- stable on the corner of West Hanover and Warren Streets, where he continued for five years. In 1863 : he formed a partnership with William Bloor and Thomas Booth, and, under the name and style of Bloor, Ott & Booth, embarked in the pottery busi- ness, erecting the building at present occupied by Ott

eipal varieties of white granite, C. C., decorated. China, and Parian ware are manufactured by the concern, including fine statuary and antique designs. A specialty is also made of a beautiful ware known as Belleek, it being the only pottery in Trenton en- gaged in that line of manufacture. At the Centen- nial Exposition in 1876 the firm received a medal for the finest display of Parian ware and statuary.

Mr. Ott has led a quiet and industrious life, and confined his energies to his large business enterprise. He has had neither the taste or leisure for publie life, although he served as first lieutenant of Company A, a special military organization which existed in Tren- ton prior to the opening of the late war. At President Lincoln's eall for troops the company offered their services to the government, and were assigned to

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& Brewer on Clinton Avenue, and engaging in the guard the arsenal at Trenton, a duty which they per- manufacture of white granite and C. C. (cream col- formed for three months. Upon the raid of the ored) ware. A short time thereafter Mr. Booth with- Southern army in Pennsylvania, attended by the bat- drew from the enterprise, and was succeeded by G. S. tle of Gettysburg, the company served thirty days in that State. Burroughs, the firm being Bloor, Ott & Burroughs. Upon the death of Mr. Burroughs his interest in the

Mr. Ott's wife is Margaretta B., daughter of Tim- coneern was purchased by Ilon. J. Hart Brewer, and . othy H. Hunt, of Mercer County, N. J. The chil- the style of the firm became Bloor, Ott & Brewer. dren are Misses Clara and Kate B. and Harry W. Mr. Bloor subsequently disposed of his interest to . Ott. the other two partners, and the present firm of Ott & . THE MERCER POTTERY COMPANY was incorpo- rated in 1868. In the same year its works were erected on the corner of Railroad Avenue and Ott Brewer was formed. For a short time the business of the concern was carried on under the corporate name of the Etruria Pottery Company. The enterprise of | Streets, where the business has since been condueted. Messrs. Ott & Brewer is one of the most representa- tive and successful in the city, and stands among the foremost of its kind in the United States. The prin- : | At the organization of the company Joseph C. Brearly was the president. In 1875 the property of the con- pany was purchased by James Moses, who has since

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conducted the business under the original name and style. White granite ware is manufactured here, but the principal business is the manufacture of what is ternied Mereer china, a specialty of this pottery. This is like French china, but lacks the translucency of that ware. This establishment has eight kilns, and two hundred hands are employed.

THE ARSENAL POTTERY .- This was established in 1876, by Joseph Mayer. A small manufactory of Rockingham and yellow ware was previously in ex- istence on the site of this pottery, Third Street near the State Arsenal. The same kind of ware is still produced, but the introduction of majolica ware is contemplated. Thirty hands are employed.

THE EAGLE POTTERY was erected iu 1876 by : Richard Millington, one of the pioneers of the pot- tery business in this city, who had been for many years successfully associated with the firm of Milling- ton & Astbury. Mr. Millington retiring from busi- ness, it was purchased, Dec. 1, 1879, by H. Nelson Burroughs, of Philadelphia, who leased it to the firmi of Burroughs, Mountford & Co., consisting of his son, Henry A. Burroughs, Elijah Mountford, and Joseph Burroughs.

Upon the death of Henry A. Burroughs, March 1, 1882, the property was purchased by the surviving partners, and the business continued under the firm- name of Burroughs & Mountford.

By the death of Messrs. Richard Millington and Henry A. Burroughs, both having died on the same day, the pottery business lost one of their oldest and the youngest representative. The former had by his practical knowledge and personal application con- tributed largely to the growth of this enterprise, and by his genial manners had eudeared himself to his associates. The latter, with but slight experience, had become an enthusiastic potter, aud was especially interested in the advancement of the decorative arts. His early death was lamented as the loss of one who showed a desire to be useful to his fellow-men.

The firm is now engaged in the manufacture of a fine grade of earthenware, known as Americau por- celain, and have already made an enviable reputation for their wares, which find a market in all parts of the United States.

They have four kilns, work-shops and warerooms in proportion, and give employment to about one hundred and fifty men, women, and children. They are also gradually enlarging their decorative depart- ment, which now gives employment to thirty opera- tives.

INTERNATIONAL POTTERY COMPANY .- In 1860, Henry Speeler established the International Pottery on Canal Street, at the foot of Assanpink Street. In 1868 his sons, Henry A. and William F., became partners, under the name of Henry Speeler & Sons.

In May, 1872, the Specler Pottery Company was incorporated, and was succeeded in 1878 by Carr & Clark.

In 1879 the International Pottery Company was incorporated, and purchased the establishment.

These works have been enlarged to double their former capacity, and from a manufactory of Rocking- hram ware it has become one of white granite, C. C., and fancy decorated ware. It has eight kilns, and one hundred and seventy-five hands are employed.

The officers are William Burgess, president ; John A. Campbell, treasurer ; and J. H. Nichols, secretary.

GREENWOOD POTTERY .- This was started in 1862, on East Canal Street, south from East State Street, by Stephens, Tams & Co. In 1868 the Greenwood . Pottery Company was incorporated, with James P. Stephens, president ; Lewis S. Burk, secretary ; and James Tams, superintendent. The present officers are James Tams, president, and James P. Stephens, secretary. Vitrified and translucent china have been manufactured exclusively at this pottery. Hotel ware is a specialty. The quality of the china produced here is believed to be fully equal to the best manufactured elsewhere in America.

The pottery commenced in a small way, and has gradually increased to its present capacity. It has six kilns, and one hundred and fifty hands are employed.

NEW JERSEY POTTERY COMPANY .- In 1878, Elias Cook erected these works near the Belvidere and Dela- ware Railroad, on Railroad Avenue. The concern afterwards became a stock company, with Henry T. Cook president.

This pottery has been distinguished for the artistic and tasteful designs of its decorated ware.

STANDARD CHINA-WORKS .- In 1879, W. Kimble commenced the manufacture of chinaware and porce- lain hardware trimmings at works which he had erected on Prospect Street, near the Bound Brook Rail- road. The manufacture of chinaware was soon dropped, and the business is now only hardware trimmings. Thirty hands are employed at this pot- tery, which has two kilns.

THE DALE AND DAVIS POTTERY was established in 1880, on Prospect Street, near the Bound Brook Railroad. Buildings were erected, and the pottery went into operation during that year. Opaque porce- lain, white granite, and decorated ware are produced here. The pottery has six kilns, and employs one hundred and fifty hands.

TRENTON CHINA COMPANY .- This was organized in November, 1880, with James Moore, president, aud Charles Satterthwaite, secretary and treasurer. The present officers are Thomas A. Bell, president; Charies Cadwallader, secretary ; and James Clarke, treasurer. This company is engaged in the manufacture of trans- lucent vitreous china exclusively. Hotel ware is a specialty, although other kinds are produced. This pottery has four kilns, and employs one hundred hands.

The works were purchased from the Trenton Terra- Cotta Company by Clarke & Tams, who enlarged and refitted them.

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CRESCENT POTTERY COMPANY .- This company was incorporated July 26, 1881, with C. H. Cook, president, and D. S. Hancock, secretary and treasurer. The works are located between Allen Street and the Belvidere and Delaware Railroad, on the canal. This pottery produces improved C. C. ware, and sanitary and plumber's earthenware. There are two kilns, aud seventy- five men are employed.

Decorators .- The first pottery manufactured in Treuton was of a kind that required only the coarsest of decoration, if any. As time went on, and finer grades of ware came to he produced here, it hecame necessary, in order that these wares might successfully THOMAS G. EDGE .- Mr. Edge is descended from English stock, his grandfather, James Edge, having compete in the market with those of foreign produc- tion, to decorate them in styles appropriate to the , resided in Burslem, Statfordshire (England), where qualities and styles of the wares and pleasing to the tastes of purchasers.

The first pottery was established in Trenton in 1852, but it was not till 1859 that Theophile Frey, a Swiss immigrant, introduced the decorative art liere as a separate business. He was followed by others, and many of the manufacturers have decorating depart- ments in their potteries.

The decoration of pottery is not limited to that pro- duced here, but the finest foreign varieties are im- ported for the purpose of ornamentatiou and sale here.

KEIL & GRUESSER .- In 1859, Theophile Frey com- menced the first china decorating establishment in Treuton, in the house where the business is still car- ried on iu Jeffersou Street, opposite Franklin. In ! 1862 he was succeeded by Herman Roledor, who car- ! ried on the business till November, 1881, when he was succeeded by Joseph F. Keil. March 1, 1882, Robert E. Gruesser became a partner, and the business has since been conducted by these gentlemen.

All kinds of ware are decorated here in all styles, but the specialty of this establishment is fancy de- signs and monograms. There are two kilns here, and fifteen hands are employed.

JESSE DEAN .- In 1864 this gentleman, who had served his time as a decorator in Staffordshire, England, began here. He commenced in a very small way, but his business has steadily expanded till his works include tliree large buildings aud employ sixty hands. There are five kilns.

All kinds of ware, domestic and foreign, are deco- rated here, and the work done will compare favorably with the best in foreign countries. The process of photographing on china and glass has been perfected at this establishment as a commercial success. It had previously been done in England, but only at an expense too great for commercial purposes.

SAMUEL D. HOPE commenced the business of deco- rating pottery on Seward Avenue, near the Delaware and Belvidere Railroad, in 1869. He erected build- ings, and has since conducted the business here. All kinds of foreign and American ware are decorated at his establishment in all styles. Two kilns are in use, and fourteen hands are employed.

GEORGE BUXTON .- A decorating establishment was started by Mr. Buxton in 1877, at its present lo- cation, in Jefferson Street, near Clinton. The deco- ration of toilet and tea ware is the principal business of this establishment. Two kilns are used, and twenty hands are employed in the business.

EDGE & Co .- This firm is engaged in the busi- ness of importing and decorating chiuaware. The business was established in 1877, at No. 9 Ewing Street. All kinds of English and French china, as well as American ware, are decorated here. There are two kilus here, and thirty hands are employed.

he was a manufacturing potter. He was twice mar- ried, and had children,-Thomas, William, Treasa. Fanuie, and Elizabeth. Thomas was born at Burslem, and followed the trade of his father. He was engaged in business in the same town as superintendent of the works of Taylor Brothers.

He married Hannah Grattan, whose residence was also Burslem, and had children,-Thomas, Aune, Treasa, James (a manufacturing potter in Englaud), Joseph (also engaged in the same business), and four who died in childhood. Thomas G., of this number, was born Jan. 15, 1842, at Burslem, and spent the early years of his life at school. Having decided upon a self-supporting trade, he was apprenticed to a potter. After devoting five years to labor he was advanced to the mixing-room, aud three years later, in connec- tion with his trade, became a commercial traveler. During the year 1866 he emigrated to the United States, and continued his labors as a traveler for three years, after which he entered the service of the Trenton Pottery. Having determined upon a more independent carecr, he, in 1877, established the firm of Edge & Co. in Trenton, who are principally en- gaged in decorating and merchandising. Mr. Edge introduced the process of printing on the glaze, which has been eminently successful, and created a revolu- tion in this department of decoration. The business of the firm is largely transacted with the extensive retail houses of the country.

Mr. Edge was in 1869 united in marriage to Miss Eleanor L., daughter of Johu Dover, of Ohio. In religion the subject of this biography is a Methodist. He has for a period of twenty years filled the office of local preacher, and is now a member of the Greene Strect Methodist Episcopal Church, as is also his wife. He has filled for ten years the office of trustee of this church.

Mr. Edge is devoted to his church and business interests, and gives little time to matters of a public or political character.

Flint-Mill .- In 1837, Bishop Davenport and Ralza- man Belknap built the Phoenix Paper-Mill on the water-power near Peace Street. By reason of the financial pressure of that period they were unable

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to complete the mill, and in 1840, Jesper Harding, of Philadelphia, purchased it, and after completing it engaged extensively in the manufacture of paper. In 1850 he sold out to Messrs. William Kay, James Dewar, and Mr. Mein, who fitted up the mill for the manufacture of envelopes. They built an addition on the south side of the mill, and placed in it a large steam-engine. In 1852 the boiler to this engine ex- ploded, completely demolishing the addition and de- stroying the engine.

Gaunt & Derrickson, of New York, purchased the mill in 1855, and carried on the paper business. It was next purchased by James Brooks and converted into a woolen factory, and conducted as such till Oct. 1, 1868, when it was purchased by Moses Gold- ing and Alexander Morrison, under the firm-name of , the second in the United States. Here he carried on Golding & Co., and by them changed to a flint-, spar-, and china clay mill, or a mill for the manufacture of potters' materials.

The capacity of the building was increased about one-half, and new driving machinery was introduced. That machinery now consists of water-wheels aggre- gating one hundred and sixty-two horse-power, and steam-engines having one hundred and ninety, a total of three hundred and fifty-two horse-power.

The establishment employs fifty-eight men, and annually consnmes four thousand tons of flint and two thousand and fifty tons of spar. These materials are brought here from the quarries in Maine, Connec- ticut, Maryland, and Delaware, and also from England and France.

MOSES GOLDING .- His father, Richard, resided at Essingtonwood, Staffordshire, England, where he spent most of his life as superintendent of the coal- mines, and died Jan. 1, 1837. His first wife was Charlotte, daughter of William Holden, a soldier in the English army, who died May 24, 1822. He was married twice afterwards. His children are Richard, deceased; Thomas, an engineer, settled in Trenton, N. J., in 1858, and died April 29, 1882, aged seventy- five years; Sarah, first the wife of Joseph Hingeley, and after his death of Joseph Wilkes, came to Tren-

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ton in June, 1846, where Mr. Wilkes died in 1854; Mary, wife of Henry Bates, of Walsall, England ; John, an engineer, came to Trenton in 1854; Ann, wife of John Burke, of Stoke-on-Trent, England; Eliza, wife of Joseph Jones, of Georgetown, Me .; Lydia, died young ; and Moses, subject of this sketch.

Moses Golding was born at Essingtonwood, Jan. 19, 1819. At the age of eleven and a half years he went into the coal-mines to work, but after three years was put in charge of the engine of the mines. He was engineer there and at the Bilston Iron-Works : until he reached his majority, when he was made chief engineer at the Cheltenham Coal-Mining Company's works of Forest-of-Dem, where he remained three years. He had charge afterwards of the large engines at Great Bridge for two years, and of the engines at the Bilston Iron-Works. Mr. Golding left England

Sept. 5, 1850, and sailed for New York, having by this time saved of his earnings only a few hundred dollars. He spent a short time in the rolling-mills at Philadel- phia, was afterwards in the machine-shops at Cincin- nati and Bordentown, until, in February, 1853, he came to Trenton, and for two years had charge of the Trenton Iron Company's engines. In 1855 the firm of Gillingham, Golding & Hargraves established a foundry and machine-works in Trenton, which they carried on until 1865, when the partnership was dis- solved, and he began the manufacture and prepara- tion of flint and feldspar for pottery purposes in a small way on Lewis Street, in Trenton, under the firm-name of Golding & Co. This was the first es- tablishment of the kind in New Jersey, and probably

business until 1868, and removed to his present place on Fair Strect, on the Delaware, where he has erected commodious buildings, with three kilns, each ten feet in diameter, capable of produeing two hundred tons per week. Joseph C. Gillingham and James Carr re- tired from the firm in 1868, the former disposing of his interest to Alexander Morrison, of New York, who died Dee. 22, 1881.

In 1876, Mr. Gokling erected flint- and spar-works at East Liverpool, Ohio, which produce some two hundred tons per month. The products of the works at Trenton and Liverpool are largely used in their own localities, but shipments are made to Boston, Pittsburgh, and other parts for the manufacturing of pottery. Mr. Golding owns or leases a spar quarry near Wilmington, Del., at Topsham and Georgetown, Me., a flint quarry at Castleton, Md., and a flint and spar quarry at Richfield, Conn. In 1878 he began the preparation of a china clay from the china clay beds at Hockessim, Del., and in 1881 Brandywine Summit, Pa., which promise a large and inereasing trade, in both of which places he has crected clay- mills for manufacturing purposes. Mr. Golding has invented several machines for the manufacture of pottery, which are almost wholly used in Trenton and other places, and to him alone is due largely the increased facilities in this branch of industry at the present time compared with the crude way practiced twenty-five years ago, and he has several valnable patents of his own for the preparation of pottery material. Mr. Golding may safely be classed among the thoroughgoing, enterprising business men of Trenton. Since his residence in Trenton Mr. Golding has taken a deep interest in church matters, and from twenty-two years of age he has been identified with the Methodist Episcopal Church. He was officially connected with the State Street Methodist Episcopal Church of Trenton from 1860 until 1872, when he beeame one of the founders of the Hamilton Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church of Chambersburg, and was president of its board of trustees until 1881.

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History of Burlington and Mercer counties, New Jersey : with biographical sketches of many of their pioneers and prominent men, Part 60

Author: Woodward, E. M. (Evan Morrison) cn; Hageman, John Frelinghuysen Publication date: 1883 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Everts & Peck Number of Pages: 1096

Author: Woodward, E. M. (Evan Morrison) cn; Hageman, John Frelinghuysen
Publication date: 1883
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Everts & Peck
Number of Pages: 1096