History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . ve the railroad bridge. They aremanufacturers of hard rubber, etc. President, Chris-topher Meyer; Secretary, Nicholas Williamson. The following is an interesting account of this com-pany and the manufacturing of hard rubber goodsfor the market: The buildings were erected two yearsprevious to 1855 by Mr. John R. Ford and Christo-pher Meyer, and used for a month or two for grindingthe Milltown factorys rubber, the machinery beingsubsequently removed to that factory; since that timethe


History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . ve the railroad bridge. They aremanufacturers of hard rubber, etc. President, Chris-topher Meyer; Secretary, Nicholas Williamson. The following is an interesting account of this com-pany and the manufacturing of hard rubber goodsfor the market: The buildings were erected two yearsprevious to 1855 by Mr. John R. Ford and Christo-pher Meyer, and used for a month or two for grindingthe Milltown factorys rubber, the machinery beingsubsequently removed to that factory; since that timethe works have been in almost constant buildings are of good size, some thirty by onehundred feet, two stories; forty by one hundred feet,five stories. The engine-room is forty feet goods manufactured amount to nearly $600,000per annum, and include every possible variety ofhard rubber goods, as the following list will show:buttons in great variety of styles ; smokers requisites,such as pipes, pipe-stems, and bowls in great diversityof shapes, sizes, and prices, tobacco- and pipe-boxes,.


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