History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . A(0 ,ci^^^=c^^^ CITY OF RAH WAY. 2^5 goods mostly to Mobile and Georgia. From 1863 until1867 lie was engaged in the coal and lumber businessin Rahway, but in 1865 he established a spoke andwheel manufactory on the site of his former manufac-tory, where he carried on business in partnership withhis brother (I. & J. Laforge) until 1870, when theypurchased their present brick manufactory, which isseventy by fifty-six feet, and four stories in height,placed in it a fifty horse-power engi
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . A(0 ,ci^^^=c^^^ CITY OF RAH WAY. 2^5 goods mostly to Mobile and Georgia. From 1863 until1867 lie was engaged in the coal and lumber businessin Rahway, but in 1865 he established a spoke andwheel manufactory on the site of his former manufac-tory, where he carried on business in partnership withhis brother (I. & J. Laforge) until 1870, when theypurchased their present brick manufactory, which isseventy by fifty-six feet, and four stories in height,placed in it a fifty horse-power engine, and began themanufacture of spokes and wheels on a more exten-sive scale. In 1874 they made large additions totheir building, and added to their business the mao-ufacture of carriage-springs. Their manufacturedgoods are sold in New York, Baltimore, Wilmington,and in Eastern and Southern markets, and are amongthe best manufactures of the kind. Ira Laforge mar-ried, in September, , Helen C, daughter of CalebW. and Mary Woodruff, of Newark. Of his fourchildren, Theodore W., Mary A., Emma C.,and F
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