The New Jersey coast in three centuries: history of the New Jersey coast with genealogical and historic-biographical appendix . ohn W.; MaryE. is the deceased wife of Charles Schellcnger, and tlieir children are Jennie, Taylorand Wasliington; George H. is the next of the family; Eliza W. is at honie; andAnna E. is the wife of Fred Neal, a farmer in Rio Grande, and their children areLydia, Warren, Mary E. and Robert. Mr. Reeves, whose name introduces this review, was educated in the old Capeschoolhouse, and at the age of fourteen began to earn his own livelihood. He learnedthe gold-beating trad
The New Jersey coast in three centuries: history of the New Jersey coast with genealogical and historic-biographical appendix . ohn W.; MaryE. is the deceased wife of Charles Schellcnger, and tlieir children are Jennie, Taylorand Wasliington; George H. is the next of the family; Eliza W. is at honie; andAnna E. is the wife of Fred Neal, a farmer in Rio Grande, and their children areLydia, Warren, Mary E. and Robert. Mr. Reeves, whose name introduces this review, was educated in the old Capeschoolhouse, and at the age of fourteen began to earn his own livelihood. He learnedthe gold-beating trade in Philadelphia, and for four years was indentured to hisbrother, Andrew H., in Chicago. He became foreman of the shop in 1866 and thuscontinued until the great Chicago fire of October, 1871, when his brothers plantwas destroyed; he then returned to the east, being employed by a gold-beating estab-lishment in Philadelphia, 1871-2. He returned to Chicago and again became foremanfor his brother, who had resumed business, and with whom he remained until1878, when, owing to failing health, he again came to the east. Here he. HISTORY OF THE NEW JERSEY COASl. 389 worked on a railroad with a section ganij for a dollar a day and had a hardstruggle for some ?time. He applied for a position in a large factiory, but didnot obtain it because he could not comply with the conditions of the labor organi-zation. He was afterward sought by the firm of Hastings & Gjnipany to establisha business at Cape May; he began operations on a small scale, his force of em-ployes consisting of two boys and two girls. .After two years he was sought tomanage a factory which the firm desired to establi.«h at Cape May. The factory wasopened with six employes, but under his management the business steadily increaseduntil employment is now furnished lo eighty operatives, and the output is large andthe business profitable. Mr. Reeves superintended the building of the factory, whichis forty by forty feet and two
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