West Pulverizing Machine Company

Allgemeines

NameWest Pulverizing Machine Company
OrtssitzJersey City (N.J.)
StraßePollock Avenue
Art des UnternehmensMaschinenfabrik
AnmerkungenLage im Häuserblock, der durch die Pollock und Mallory Avenues und die Central Railroad begrenzt wird.
Quellenangaben[Jersey City of to-day (1907) 104]




Unternehmensgeschichte

Zeit Ereignis
28.01.1863 Geburt von A. Lincoln West in Trenton, N.J. - Er arbeitet nach seiner Schulzeit anfangs auf einer Farm, und im alter von 16 Jahren beginnt er eine Ausbildung als Maschinenschlosser.
1884 A. Lincoln West beginnt sein eigenes Unternehmen in kleinem Maßstab
um 1901 Verlegung des Unternehmens nach Jersey City




Produkte

Produkt ab Bem. bis Bem. Kommentar
Hartzerkleinerungsmaschinen 1884 Beginn (unbekannt, wo) 1909 bekannt  
Maschinen zur Gummibearbeitung 1901 seither in Jersey City 1909 bekannt  
Zementmühlen 1901 seither in Jersey City 1909 bekannt  




Allgemeines

ZEITum 1907
THEMABeschreibung
TEXTA. Lincoln West, the proprietor of the works bearing his name, known as West Pulverizing Machine Company, whose extensive plant occupies the entire block at Pollock and Mallory Avenues and the Central Railroad of New Jersey, at Jersey City, was born near Trenton, N. J., January 28th, 1863, and attended the public schools, his early years being spent on a farm. When a boy he was employed four years in the City Clerk's office of Trenton, and at sixteen years of age became apprenticed to the machinist trade, learning the business in all its branches. At the age of twenty-one he started in business for himself in a very small way and about eight years ago moved to Jersey City, where he started the erection of the present plant. The business since that time has constantly increased, until at the present the machinery manufactured is shipped to all parts of the continent. The specialties of manufacture are pulverizers for cement, quartz, graphite, and a full line of rolls, washers, and other machinery used in the
manufacture of rubber. Since the recent discovery of the value of Guayule rubber, he has made large shipments of
machinery to Mexico for this purpose. The plant is equipped with the most modern machine tools, having the largest
capacity in this part of the country, and is prepared to do the heaviest kind of work in all departments. Complete
equipments are furnished for all kinds of cement manufacturing plants, and there are mills for all materials, plain
and continuous feed and discharge cylinders, porcelain linings and flint pebbles. Mr. West recently closed a
contract at Gouvernour, New York, with the International Pulp Company of that place for the entire equipment of
pulverizing machinery for the manufacture of talc being erected there by this firm. The name of West is of English origin. Among the nobility is the house of Delaware founded by Thomas West, who was a member of Parliament as Baron West in 1342, and the eleventh in succession from the founder of the line was Thomas West (Lord Delaware), who was governor of Virginia and from whom the Delaware river and bay were named. Wests were early settlers of Virginia and South Carolina and were prominent there. Matthew West, who came from England in 1636, located at Lynn, Massachusetts, afterward going to Rhode Island. His fourth son was Bartholomew, who married Catherine Almy of Rhode Island in the year 1650. They moved to Monmouth County in the year 1666 and were among the founders of the new settlements that took the name of Shrewsbury and other well-known names. Bartholomew West was a member of the first Assembly of East New Jersey which met December 14, 1667. He died about the year 1692. Their son John West married Jane Wiggs at Shrewsbury October 15, 1694. His oldest son, Bartholomew, married Susanna Shinn of Burlington County, October 5, 1727, and located on a farm northwest of Allentown, N. J., now Washington township, Mercer County. He died during the War of the Revolution of smallpox contracted from his son William who had caught this disease from the British at New Brunswick, N. J., which developed after his escape from them. This son William, the youngest child, born 1750, married in 1778, Anne Stout, daughter of John and Margaret Taylor of Middlesex, Monmouth County. She was a great-grand daughter of Richard Stout, the first English settler of New Jersey, whose wife was Penelope (Van Princess) Stout, the "Dutch Lady" whose most remarkable escape from death by shipwreck, and the fearful wounds inflicted by Indians who thought they had killed all the passengers who had escaped, is the most interesting incident in the early history of New Jersey. William West before his marriage had some stirring adventures with the
enemy, being imprisoned and held at New Brunswick, escaping in the night, carrying home the germs of smallpox resulting in the death of his father as already stated. Their family consisted of nine children and their descendents are very numerous in Mercer County, New Jersey. Their youngest son Joseph Lippet West, born November
14, 1798, married Ann Pearson, great-great-grand-daughter of the Robert Pearson who came from England in 1681. James Gordon West, the second son of Joseph Lippet West and Ann Pearson West, married Martha McKean Hutchinson, daughter of Abram R. Hutchinson and Ann Robbins Hutchinson of Hamilton Square, New Jersey, December, 31, 1851. He was an honored and influential resident of Hamilton township, Mercer County, New Jersey, being elected the first mayor of Chambersburg, a suburb of Trenton, and was one of the incorporators and first trustees of Hamilton Avenue M. E.
Church. Hewas twiceelecied to the New Jersey legislature in 1863 and 1864, was a prominent builder and an ardent member of the Republican party. This branch of the family of the Wests is noted for their staunch patriotism and prominent as men of affairs. The Forty-sixth British Regiment during the War of the Revolution, has in its possession a family bible taken from Stephen West, Jr., which contains many entries of births, deaths, etc., of the Wests and some notes made of hard winters and deep snows. The Forty-sixth Regiment have called it, and still call it the Washington Bible. They prize it highly and have carried it with them during all their travels. They had been told that George Washington had been obligated on this bible in some of the degrees of Free-masonry. Mr. A. Lincoln West is the fourth child of James Gordon West and Martha McKean Hutchinson.
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