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Robert de Schweinitz was born in Salem, North Carolina, September 20, 1819, died in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1901. He was a clergy- man of the Moravian church, and for years was engaged in educational work of the church as principal of the Salem (North Carolina) Female Academy, and of Nazareth Hall, a boarding school for boys at Nazareth, Pennsylvania. For more than twelve years he was president of the governing board for the Moravian church in America, and then until 1898 was general church treasurer. He held many subsidiary offices and served the church in official capacity for sixty years. He was a man of inost honorable life and character, highly estcemed by all who came within the circle of his influence. IIc married Marie Louise von Tschirschky, of the house of Tschirschky-Boegcn- dorff, and on her mother's side of the house of Schoenberg-Briban, of un- broken noble descent from the Middle Ages. The family estate was called Wilka, in Silesia, Germany. These are the three generations: father, grand- father and great-grandfather of Paul de Schweinitz, also a Moravian clergyman.
Paul de Schweinitz, son of Robert and Marie Louise (von Tschirschky) de Schweinitz, was born in Salem. North Carolina, March 16, 1863. IIe was educated in the Moravian Parochial School, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; at Nazareth Hall, Nazareth, Pennsylvania; Moravian College and Theological Seminary, at Bethlehem; and the University of Halle, Gerinany. He was ordained a deacon of the church of his fathers, Unitas Fratrum, or Moravian, September 12, 1886, and on September 23, 1888, was ordained a presbyter. His first pastorate was at Nortinteld, Minnesota, where he served the church as pastor from 1886 until 1890. In 1890 he began a pastorate of more than eight years with the Moravian church at Nazareth, Pennsylvania, but in 1898 he withdrew from active pastoral work to accept the office of secretary and treasurer of the governing board of the American Moravian Church, North. Later he was chosen to fill the several offices which he yet holds, secretary of missions for the American Moravian Church, vice-president and treasurer of the Society of United Brethren for Propagating the Gospel among the Heathen, treasurer of the Moravian College and Theological Seminary, and president of the Moravian Aid Society, since disbanded, be- sides various subsidiary trusteeships and directorships.
In 1904, at the eleventh annual session of the Foreign Missions' Confer- ence of North America, he proposed the organization of a permanent com- mittee representing all the foreign missions' boards of the United States and Canada, which should be in a position to act for all the foreign missionary interests of the country in negotiation with governments, or in any cascs where united action was desirable. During the years 1904 to 1907 he took a prominent part in organizing this committee, which is now called "The Committee of Reference and Counsel," and is the incorporated Executive Committee of the Foreign Missions' Conference of North America, and has become the most effective body in fedcrative and co-operative foreign mis- sionary work. With the exception of an interval of three years, he has been a member of this committee since its final organization in 1907, and at the present time (1919) is the recording secretary thereof. He was a member of the American Executive Committee which organized the World Mission- ary Conference of 1910 at Edinburgh, and was a member of and one of the set program speakers at the Panama Congress of Christian Workers in Latin America in 1916. He was president of the twenty-fifth annual session ot the Foreign Missions' Conference of North America in 1918. Ile has served on various commissions and committees of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and has been identified in various ways with the World Conference on Faith and Order, and with the Conference on the Organic Union of the Evangelical Churches of the United States, and is like-
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wise serving on sundry committees of the Home Missions' Council of the United States.
Beyond his church societ'es and connections he has many affiliations, including membership in the Pennsylvania German Society, of which he is a charter member, and a vice-president of the Moravian Historical Society, which he serves as a member of the executive committee. He is also vice- president of the Pennsylvania Huguenot Society, organized in 1917. He is one of the strong men of the Moravian Church and worthily bears an honored name which, in his keeping, is secure from deterioration. On the occasion of the centenary of his alma mater, the Moravian College and Theological Seminary at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1907, the degree of Doctor Divinitatis, honoris causa, was conferred upon him and upon two bishops of the Moravian church. This was the first time in the century of this institution's existence that this degree was conferred.
In 1915 he was elected a trustee of St. Luke's Hospital of South Betlile- hem, Pennsylvania. He is likewise a director of the Lehigh Valley National Bank of Bethlehem. He was one of the vice-presidents of the executive com- mittee of the great overhead Hill-to-Hill Bridge Campaign in Bethlehem, in October, 1916, which marked a new epoch in the history of Bethlehem, and was the beginning of the movement which resulted in the consolidation of the borough of Bethlehem and South Bethlehem into the city of Bethlehem in 1918. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Bethlehem, an honorary member of the Lehigh University Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa (the Beta of Pennsylvania), a trustee of St. Luke's Hospital, and a director of the Lehigh Valley National Bank.
The Rev. Paul de Schweinitz married, at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, January 27, 1887, Mary Catherine Daniel, daughter of Charles B. Daniel, a pioneer of the slate industry in Northampton county, one of the organizers of the Bethlehem Iron Company, now the famous Bethlehem Steel Company, and one of the most prominent business men of eastern Pennsylvania. Charles B. Daniel married Eliza Riegel. Both the Daniel and Riegel families were in Pennsylvania prior to the Revolution. Mary C. Daniel was educated in the Moravian Parochial School at Bethlehem and at Linden Hall Seminary, a Moravian boarding school for girls at Lititz, Pennsylvania. The Rev. and Mrs. de Schweinitz are the parents of two children, born at Northfield, Min- nesota, and two at Nazareth, Pennsylvania: Karl, born November 26, 1887; Helena, born May 18, 1889; Dorothea, born September 5, 1891 ; and Louise. born August 13, 1897. The family home is at Bethlehem.
BENJAMIN HAYTOCK-The rapid progress made in silk manufactur- ing in the United States during the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the opening years of the twentieth century was due to the energy of man and not to fortunate location or new discovery. Men said that silk could be made in the United States, and a great industry sprang into being. Among the men who were pioneers in establishing silk manufacture in the United States, the name of Benjamin Haytock always is found, and it is to him and the four sons whom he inducted into the business that this and the following articles will deal. The father has many inventions to his credit. and during his active career as a manufacturer he originated many methods which simplified the detail of manufacture, sped up looms and increased production. But his best gift to the country of his adoption was his four capable sons, who, following in his footsteps, are all engaged in silk manu- facture, and continue the name of Haytock, an honored one in the silk trade. The family is English and Scotch, Benjamin and his three eldest sons-John, William R. and Hartley J., all born in the city of Glasgow, Scot- land. The father has gone to his reward, but the three sons named, and Benjamin (2), born in this country, remain the active heads of large silk
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manufacturing companies of Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and Phil- lipsburg. New Jersey.
Benjamin Haytock, the elder, was born in Nelson, England, in 1841, going to Glasgow in his twentieth year, and died of pneumonia in Easton, Pennsylvania, January 7, 1916. He became a textile worker in his native land, residing in Glasgow, where he married and spent the first seventeen years of his married life. In the year 1879 he came to the United States with his family, locating in Lawrence, Massachusetts, spending the first two years with the Arlington Mills of that city. He then removed to Paterson, New Jersey, the silk city of the United States, and formed an association with Dexter, Lambert & Co. Later he was with Chapin & Co., succeeded by the Standard Silk Company, and finally became superintendent of the Hess, Goldsmith & Co. plant. All through these years he was con- stantly bringing forward new ideas and methods, but always for the benefit of his employers. Finally he left Paterson ard located in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, as assistant superintendent of the Standard Silk Co., of that place. Later he organized the Phillipsburg Silk Mill Co., and until his settlement several years prior to his death was vice-president and manager of that large and important silk manufacturing company, now known as the Stewart Silk Co. This brief review does scant justice to the remarkable career of Benjamin Haytock in his relation to silk manufacture in the United States. He was widely known throughout the silk trade as the originator of the best crêpe constructions known to silk manufacturing in this country. Hc was the able pioneer and the originator of the process of steaming crêpe twist, an idea which revolutionized the crêpe industry here. He patented a mechanical motion for making grenadines, which was a great success, and the idea which he originated for twisting plain work in frames saved from one to two days per warp over the old way. He applied the first stop motion to a silk loom, and a volume would not be sufficient to describe the varied benefits which he conferred upon the silk industry. He was a man of strong will and determined character, nothing daunted him, and difficulties but spurred him to greater effort. He was honored among men, but in his family he found his great source of happiness. He married in Scotland, Helen Richardson, who survives him, a resident of Easton. Two daughters, Mrs. Alexander Smith and Mrs. William Gunning survive their father, as do four sons: John, vice-president of the Haytock-Cronemeyer Company, the Haytock Silk Throwing Company, and the Avoca Silk Company ; William R., president of the Haytock-Cronemeyer Company, the Haytock Silk Throwing Company, and the Avoca Silk Company; Hartley J., secretary-treasurer of the Northampton Silk Company, treasurer of the Avoca Silk Company ; Ben- jamin, Jr., secretary-treasurer of the Haytock Silk Throwing Company, treas- urer of the Haytock-Cronemeyer Company, secretary and general manager of the Avoca Silk Company, all worthy sons of an honored father.
JOHN HAYTOCK -- At the age of sixteen years, John Haytock, now a leading manufacturer and business man of Easton, Pennsylvania, left his native Scotland and came to the United States. He had the advantage of association with his capable father, whose memory he honors, but his suc- cess in the silk manufacturing business may be more justly attributed to his close application during those years of training and study of the finer technicalities of silk manufacture. He is an authority in the trade, but a greater asset is his strict sense of justice and his ability to win the confi- dence and co-operation of those who are associated with him and subject to his direction. He is the eldest son of Benjamin and Helen (Richardson) Haytock, previously mentioned in this work.
John Haytock was born in Glasgow, Scotland, October 17, 1863, and there attended the city schools until he was fourteen years of age. In 1877
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he went to Nelson, near Manchester, England, where he became an appren- tice to the weaver's trade in the employ of his uncle. He remained in Nelson until 1879, then came to the United States with his parents and family who located in Lawrence, Massachusetts. There the lad, John, joined his father in the Arlington Mills, and in 1882 removed with him to Paterson, New Jersey, there becoming an employe of Dexter, Lambert & Co., in the silk weaving department. He remained with that company two years, then was with the Standard Silk Company of Paterson until 1891. In January, 1892, he had charge over the warping department of the Standard Silk Company's plant at Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Later, in 1900. he joined his father in the Phillipsburg Silk Company, and three years were thus spent in the closest and most intimate relation. In 1903 he aided in organizing the Easton Silk Company, now the Haytock-Cronemeyer Company, and became its first vice-president in charge of mill operation, a post he has most ably filled for the past fifteen years. He was also one of the incorporators of the Haytock Silk Throwing Company, of which he is vice-president, and of the Avoca Silk Company, with which he holds the same relation. He is also vice- president of the Haytock Brothers and Cronemeyer Silk Dyeing Company. He is a member of the Easton Board of Trade, and for some time served as chairman of its manufacturers' committee. He has other financial interests outside silk manufacturing; he is a trustee of the First Baptist Church of Easton, and in politics is a Republican, neither holding nor desiring public office.
John Haytock married in Paterson, New Jersey, June 20, 1889, Mary S. Stevenson, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (McCleary) Stevenson. The Stevensons, like the Haytocks, were a Scotch family who came in 1866 to New York City, where Mrs. Haytock was born. She is active in church work and related charities, in Red Cross and Women's War Work. Mr. and Mrs. Haytock are the parents of three daughters and a son: Elizabeth M., a graduate of the Drexel Institute School of Domestic Science and Arts; Helen R .; Evelyn M .; and Benjamin L.
WILLIAM R. HAYTOCK-From the heights of assured business, Mr. Haytock reviews a connection with silk manufacture which began when he was a youth under the direction of his honored father. He is the third son of Benjamin and Helen (Richardson) Haytock, and the last of their sons born in Scotland. He has risen from the bottom of the manufacturing ladder to the very top, being president of all the companies bearing the Haytock name.
William R. Haytock was born in Glasgow, Scotland, October 6, 1873, and there resided until 1879, when he was brought to this country by his parents, who settled in Lawrence, Massachusetts, remaining there less than three years. The lad, William, attended the public school during that period, and after the family removed to Paterson, New Jersey, in 1882, he continued study in the public schools of that city. In Paterson he began his appren- ticeship to the silk business, continuing under his father's watchful, expert supervision until the removal to Phillipsburg, New Jersey. There father and son were again associated in the Standard Silk Company. William R. was advanced to positions of increasing responsibility during the six years he was there employed. He then joined his father and eldest brother in the organization known as the Phillipsburg Silk Company, there continuing until 1903. In that year he was the ruling spirit in organizing the Haytock- Cronemeyer Company, and for two years was secretary-treasurer of that company, being elected president in 1905. In 1906 he joined with his brothers in incorporating the Haytock Silk Throwing Company, and has been president of that company from its beginning. He holds both these important chief executive positions, and is one of the foremost factors in
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the silk industry of this section of the State of Pennsylvania. In 1913 he organized the Haytock Brothers and Cronemeyer, Inc., silk dyers and finish- ers, doing all the dyeing for the Haytock-Cronemeyer Company as well as accepting commissions. He holds other important positions in the business life of his district, being president of the Avoca Silk Company, vice-president of the South Easton Water Company, and a director of the Easton Trust Company.
He is president of the Easton Board of Trade, and one of the men who can be relied upon for efficient service and timely aid when Easton's welfare is at stake. He is fond of the great out-of-doors, delights in horseback riding, enjoys motoring, and is a patron of all healthful outdoor sports. For many years he has been a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Phillipsburg, and an efficient member of its board of trustees. Politically he is a Republican, but takes little part in public life, being content to serve his city in a private capacity. His clubs are the Pomfret of Easton, and the Manhattan of New York City. His fraternity is the Benevolent and Protec- tive Order of Elks.
William R. Haytock married, June 10, 1896, Ella M. Dalrymple, daugh- ter of David and Elizabeth (Gardner) Dalrymple, of Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Mrs. Haytoek is an active member of the church, is interested in Red Cross work and social life, and is also secretary of the Century Club, of Easton.
HARTLEY J. HAYTOCK-From the age of thirteen years a worker in silk, Mr. Haytock, second of the sons of Benjamin and Helen (Richardson) Haytock, may be said literally to have grown up in the business, for, after graduation as a worker, he at once advanced to the ranks of manufacturers, and is now the honored, financial head of silk manufacturing companies. If asked the secret of his success he would probably tell the inquirer that it was through close application, thorough mastering of all the intimate details of his business, and a sincere interest in the welfare of his employes. Just what this last clause means may be ascertained by comparing conditions in the different mills, and then remembering that strikes are expensive. Mr. Haytock is a leader among those further advanced in modern thought on factory and mill management, in relation to healthful working conditions and ample financial protection for those injured while employed. While the whole trend is toward mutual understanding and co-operation, Mr. Hay- tock makes it his close study, and keeps in closest touch with his factory force.
Hartley J. Haytock was born in Glasgow, Scotland, September 22, 1868, and there attended the public schools until the coming of the family to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1879. In Lawrence he was a pupil in the public school for two years. After the removal to Paterson, New Jersey, he became a worker in the silk mills. He early became an expert, and by the time he was eighteen he was holding a responsible position with the Standard Silk Company, who sold their Paterson plant to the Hess-Goldsmith Company. After spending ten years with that company, he then spent a year with a ribbon manufacturing company in New York. The next seven years were passed with M. J. Green, as superintendent of his silk manufacturing mill, this bringing him to the year 1905, when he came to Easton. Here he aided in organizing and incorporating the Northampton Silk Company. He was elected the first secretary of that company, and in 1906 was chosen treasurer, the two offices being combined. In addition to his dual duties as secretary- treasurer, he is the operating head of the plant, a position he has held ever since the beginning. The plant was started with a force of fifty hands, and now employs more than two hundred and fifty. The company also operates a mill at Perkasie, in Bucks county, Pennsylvania ; that plant ranks fourth in
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the district in the amount of silk produced. A feature of the management of the Northampton Silk Company is the carrying of employe's insurance in addition to the State liability requirements. Insurance of five hundred dollars is carried after three months, increasing to one thousand dollars at the end of five years. This was extended to include all employes who were in the service of their country during the World War. During the thirteen years of the company's existence there have been no labor troubles at their mills, a record which is perhaps not equalled in the State. The wants of employes are anticipated, and their welfare is carefully considered.
Mr. Haytock is also treasurer of the Avoca Silk Throwing Company, and chairman of the employers' committee of the Easton Board of Trade. As a member of the executive committee of the Liberty Loan for Northamp- ton, Pike and Monroe counties by appointment of the United States Treas- ury Department, he rendered valuable service, being in charge of the special industries committee during the first Liberty Loan period, and a team cap- tain during the second and third loan periods. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association, the National Association of Manu- facturers, and of the Silk Manufacturers' Association of America. He is a member of the Rotary and Pomfret clubs of Easton, St. Bernard's Roman Catholic Church, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and in politi- cal preference is a Republican, but is very independent in exercising the franchise. His favorite recreation is motoring. He is deeply interested in good roads, and is a member and chairman of the board of trustees of Easton, and Motors Association of Easton, Pennsylvania. He is one of the directors of the War Chest of Easton, and is a Licasion member of the Rotary Club.
Mr. Haytock married Miss Mary A. Green, of Paterson, New Jersey. They have one son, Hartley J., Jr. The family home is at No. 147 James street.
BENJAMIN HAYTOCK, JR .- Youngest of the sons of Benjamin and Helen (Richardson) Haytock, their only American-born son, Benjamin, Jr., came upon the scene under more favorable financial conditions, and was able to complete a full course of college work before being called upon to take his place in the family business-silk manufacturing. He advanced rap- idly, and is associated with his brothers in the management of the Haytock companies, and an important factor in their success.
Benjamin (2) Haytock was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, March 17, 1882, and the same year was taken by his parents to Paterson, New Jersey. His education was begun there, but it was mainly in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, that he obtained his public school training. He completed college preparation in the Lerck School in Easton, then, in pursuance of a long- cherished plan, he entered the dental department of the University of Penn- sylvania, whence he was graduated D.D.S., class of 1902. He practiced his profession in Easton for two years, and then entered the business interprises with which his brothers, John and William, were associated. He has closely identified himself with silk manufacture during the years which have since elapsed, and he is winning high reputation in the silk trade. Although yet young in years, in comparison with many others, he capably fills the posi- tions for which he has been chosen, and is an important factor in their management. He is treasurer of the Haytock Brothers and Cronemeyer Com- pany, secretary and general manager of the Haytock Silk Throwing Com- pany, secretary and general manager of the Avoca Silk Company of Avoca. Pennsylvania, and a member of the directorates of all of the above-mentioned corporations.
Mr. Haytock is a very active member of the Easton Board of Trade, was a member of the Exemption Board, and secretary of Local Board No. 2 of Northampton county. He is active in Red Cross work, aided greatly in filling Easton's War Chest, and bears his full share of public patriotic work.
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In politics he is a Republican. His club is the Pomfret of Easton. He married, May 17, 1916, M. Edna Raul, daughter of Louis and Jennie ( Morley) Raul, of Easton. Mrs. Haytock is a member of the Woman's Club, the Easton Chapter of the Red Cross, and is active in all. They are the parents of two daughters: Ethel Raul and Jane Richardson.
JOHN R. BEERS-Now one of the veter ans of Easton, but active, hale and hearty, Alderman Beers reviews a long and active life beginning when a boy amid scenes of the Civil War. He is a son of Stephen Beers, born in Stewartsville, New Jersey, in 1818, who died at Harmony, New Jersey, at the age of eighty-two. His wife, who died at the age of sixty-five, was a daughter of John T. Rerrick, who in the long ago was proprietor of the Lenni Lenape Hotel, in Phillipsburg. Iler mother was Sophia Brakeley. Stephen and Anna Elizabeth (Rerrick) Beers were the parents of two sons : John R., who is of further mention, and George, who died young; their daughter, Mary, educated in Easton High School, was a teacher, but died at the age of twenty-one years.
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