. Railway mechanical engineer . er in Newburyport, put in machinery andhired mechanics to manufacture Starretts patent meat chopper,later called the American chopper. In 1868 he sold out to theAthol Machine Company, a company incorporated to manufacturehis inventions, among which was a line of vises; also a shoehook fastener. He was later forced out of the company by fellowofficials who thought they could push things faster and makemore money. Mr. Starrett took this set-back with patience andgood nature, starting anew in the same line of activity in a littleshop connected with the former Richa
. Railway mechanical engineer . er in Newburyport, put in machinery andhired mechanics to manufacture Starretts patent meat chopper,later called the American chopper. In 1868 he sold out to theAthol Machine Company, a company incorporated to manufacturehis inventions, among which was a line of vises; also a shoehook fastener. He was later forced out of the company by fellowofficials who thought they could push things faster and makemore money. Mr. Starrett took this set-back with patience andgood nature, starting anew in the same line of activity in a littleshop connected with the former Richardson machine shop andlater in a part of a cotton factory. Soon afterwards he be,gan tomanufacture the Starrett line of tools and mechanical applianceswhich he had been for years industriously perfecting and forwhich he is probably best known. Knox Taylor, since 1910 president of the Taylor-\\harton Iron& Steel Company, High Bridge. N. J., died at his home in HighBridge, on April 4. He was born at High Bridge on October 19,. Starrett 1873, and was graduated from Princeton University with thedegree of bachelor of science in 1895. In January, 1902, he enteredthe service of the Taylor Iron & Steel Company and worked upthrough various departments in the foundry and the old wheelshop until he became general manager in October, 1905. The HighBridge plant had been engaged in the production of manganesesteel since 1892, under license of the Hadfield patents. In 1912the company purchased all the interests of William Wharton, Jr.,& Co., of Philadelphia, and its subsidiary, the PhiladelphiaRoll & Machine Company. The Wharton Company had originatedthe application of manganese steel in track work in co-operationwith the old Taylor Iron & Steel Company, and the new com-bination became known as the Taylor-Wharton Iron & Steel Com-pany. In 1913 the company also bought out the interests of theTioga Iron & Steel Company. Philadelphia. During the war, , in additio nto the work of h
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