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Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Company
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| Name | Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Company |
| Ortssitz | Jersey City (N.J.) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Gummifabrik |
| Quellenangaben | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 98] |
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| 22.06.1848 |
Geburt von John J. Voorhees in New Utrecht |
| 1863 |
John J. Voorhees übernimmt für fünf Jahre die Stelle als Angesteller in einem Landhandelsgeschäft |
| 1885 |
John J. Voorhees wird Finanzleiter der "New Jersey Car Spring and Rubber Company" |
| 1897 |
John J. Voorhees verläßt die "New Jersey Car Spring and Rubber Company" und gründet seine eigene Gesellschaft. |
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| Gummischläuche |
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| ZEIT | um 1907 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | In August, 1898, the Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Company, through its president and founder, Mr. John J. Voorhees, made the following modest announcement: "This company, in offering its products to the trade, is simply renewing old acquaintances. Its management has had an active experience of over thirty years and has the ability to make excellent goods, and, what is more to the point, the disposition to do so. We ask no favor beyond a comparison of qualities and prices and have perfect confidence that our equipment, coupled with a close supervision of our work and the elimination of extravagant expenses, will enable us to show you practical reasons for giving us your patronage. We shall appreciate your inquiry for price and samples, and an opportunity to estimate on special goods." Although apparently announcing the starting of a new enterprise in Jersey City, it was, in reality, the expansion of
an industry already well established under the management of Mr. John J. Voorhees over thirty years before, and the
foremen of the different departments, most of them, had been under the same management for from ten to twenty years. Starting with a small wing of the present large and well equipped factory, with the idea of doing specialty work principally, and with characteristic modesty, not expecting quick expansion, the reputation of the president for skill and experience in the business quickly brought voluntary orders from all over the country to such an extent that the equipment could not possibly take care of the business, and within a year a large addition was made to the mill, doubling its capacity. Even with this addition the business grew so fast that for two years the factory ran night and day, and it was found necessary to add another large wing and establish heavier machinery and of greater capacity. From time to time it has been necessary to add more and more machinery, the latest addition being a number of new up-to-date looms for the weaving of cotton fabrics for mill and fire hose, a product which is a specialty of the company and in the manufacture of which the president is a pioneer. The company produces mechanical rubber goods of every description, such as rubber belting, hose, packings, mats, mattings, valves, tubings, tires, tiling, etc.
Equipped to make many large and difficult articles where quality and methods of construction, knowledge of conditions and ultimate economy are the main considerations, and where nothing but skilled experience could be successful, the Voorhees Rubber Manufacturing Company has been an important factor in supplying the United States Government and large contracting companies with large suctions, dredging sleeves, and other heavy work material of the kind, much of which is not attempted by any of its largest competitors. Through its New York store, 48 Dey Street, under the management of the secretary of the company, Mr. Frank D. Voerhees, it is beginning to do some exporting which may mean important addition to its already large business in the near future. With selling agencies in almost every large city in the country it is no small agent itself in advertising the importance of Jersey City as a manufacturing centre and is one of the industries of which the Board of Trade is proud. The officers of the company are: John J. Voorhees, president; John J. Voorhees, Jr., treasurer; Frank D. Voorhees, secretary; G. Frederick Covell, sales manager; and Charles T. Dickey, superintendent. They have branch offices at 502 Forest Building, Philadelphia; 79 Dearborn Street, Chicago; and 532 Byrne Building, Los Angeles, California. John J. Voorhees, president of the company, was born in New Utrecht, June 22, 1848. He comes of Dutch extraction. His father, Peter Voorhees, was born on the old farm at Flatlands, where his first ancestors settled in 1660. Mr. Voorhees received his education in the public schools of his native place. In 1863 he accepted a position as a
clerk in a country store, where he remained five years. After filling similar positions for several subsequent
years, he accepted a position as assistant book-keeper in the extensive establishment of the New Jersey Car
Spring and Rubber Company of Jersey City. After his first year of service in that capacity in that concern he was promoted to the position of head book-keeper. It was not long before his worth and ability were appreciated, and
he was made secretary of the company, a position he held until 1885, when he was elected treasurer of that corporation, and in 1 888 was made general manager, leaving that company to form the new one in 1897. In 1885 he was appointed a member of the Board of Education and served three terms, five successive years of which he was president of that body without an opposing candidate. In 1892 he was a member of the Condemnation Commission on the County Road. On April 30, 1907 Mr. Voorhees wrote a letter to H. Otto Wittpenn asking him if he intended to run for Mayor of Jersey City on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Wittpenn answered in the affirmative, and this was practically the
beginning of his successful campaign. Mr. Voorhees was a prominent member of the Board of Free Library Trustees
for many years, and at his retirement in February, 1908, he was presented with a loving cup by his colleagues. He is a trustee of the Children's Home, and has been its president. He is a member of the executive committee of the Board of Trade of Jersey City, and has taken a most active part in all its deliberations, serving one term as its president. |
| QUELLE | [Jersey City of to-day (1907) 98] |
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