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Bigelow-Sanford. Inventor of the power loom was Erastus B. Bigelow who became head of what is now the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co. (Massachusetts), oldest U. S. carpet makers. Last week the oldest carpet makers absorbed the oldest rug manufacturers, Stephen Sanford & Sons (New York) founded...
Gold, Silver, Jewels. In Manhattan, in 1810, when Fifth Avenue was a woodsy suburb, Messrs. Isaac Marquand and Erastus Barton opened a jewelry shop at No. 166 Broadway. A descendant of this store may be seen today in Palm Beach, in Paris, in Manhattan (on Fifth Avenue). The name is now Black, Starr & Frost. Black, Starr & Frost fashioned the Davis Cup for the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, and for U. S. and European ladies many a rare jewel, notably a $685,000 pink pearl necklace...
Hero. A fierce, tropical storm was raging when orders came for the five U. S. bombers to soar up from their base at Managua and succor the 39 marines besieged in Ocotal. He who led the bombers through the storm was 42-year-old Major Ross Erastus ("Rusty") Rowell, an airman only four years in the service...
...railroads: Robert V. Massey of the Pennsylvania and William Ayer Baldwin of the Erie. For the workers: E. P. Curtis, general secretary, Order of Railway Conductors, and Daniel L. Cease, editor, Railway Trainmen. For the public: William Delavan Baldwin, chairman, Otis Elevator Co., and Edgar Erastus Clark, onetime (1906-21) I. C. C. commissioner, now Washington, D. C. lawyer. They had just 45 days, according to law, to hear both sides of the dispute and to make their recommendations for settlement. They accomplished their task-the "public's" men siding with those of the workers...
...Millionaire Manhattan lawyer, whose father, the Rev. Erastus N. Cravath, was a founder of Fisk (1867) and its first president (for 25 years...