Manufacturer of linen collars, later shirts and cuffs, in Albany with sales branches in New York City, Boston, and San Francisco and manufacturing branches in Cobleskill and Richmondville, New York.
His company was the first to use an automatic button hole machine on cloth garments. He employed over 1,000 people. His products were on sale in every state in the Union. He graduated from Williston Seminary and Bryant & Stratton Commercial College in Albany. He had been a passenger on the steamship Maidiana that was wrecked in the West Indies on a coral reef at night, 16 miles from shore, because of an inoperative lighthouse (2/10/1903).
He served as President of the Madison Avenue Dutch Reformed Church, Home Savings Bank, and Massasoit Wadding Company of Cohoes. He was a Director of National Exchange Bank, Albany Chamber of Commerce and a Trustee of Memorial Hospital. He was also a life member of Masters Lodge of Masons.
His company was the first to use an automatic button hole machine on cloth garments. He employed over 1,000 people. His products were on sale in every state in the Union. He graduated from Williston Seminary and Bryant & Stratton Commercial College in Albany. He had been a passenger on the steamship Maidiana that was wrecked in the West Indies on a coral reef at night, 16 miles from shore, because of an inoperative lighthouse (2/10/1903).
He served as President of the Madison Avenue Dutch Reformed Church, Home Savings Bank, and Massasoit Wadding Company of Cohoes. He was a Director of National Exchange Bank, Albany Chamber of Commerce and a Trustee of Memorial Hospital. He was also a life member of Masters Lodge of Masons.
Manufacturer of linen collars, later shirts and cuffs, in Albany with sales branches in New York City, Boston, and San Francisco and manufacturing branches in Cobleskill and Richmondville, New York.
His company was the first to use an automatic button hole machine on cloth garments. He employed over 1,000 people. His products were on sale in every state in the Union. He graduated from Williston Seminary and Bryant & Stratton Commercial College in Albany. He had been a passenger on the steamship Maidiana that was wrecked in the West Indies on a coral reef at night, 16 miles from shore, because of an inoperative lighthouse (2/10/1903).
He served as President of the Madison Avenue Dutch Reformed Church, Home Savings Bank, and Massasoit Wadding Company of Cohoes. He was a Director of National Exchange Bank, Albany Chamber of Commerce and a Trustee of Memorial Hospital. He was also a life member of Masters Lodge of Masons.
His company was the first to use an automatic button hole machine on cloth garments. He employed over 1,000 people. His products were on sale in every state in the Union. He graduated from Williston Seminary and Bryant & Stratton Commercial College in Albany. He had been a passenger on the steamship Maidiana that was wrecked in the West Indies on a coral reef at night, 16 miles from shore, because of an inoperative lighthouse (2/10/1903).
He served as President of the Madison Avenue Dutch Reformed Church, Home Savings Bank, and Massasoit Wadding Company of Cohoes. He was a Director of National Exchange Bank, Albany Chamber of Commerce and a Trustee of Memorial Hospital. He was also a life member of Masters Lodge of Masons.
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