. other businessconnection, they sought his assistance. He was accordingly made the vice-president of the company, becoming actively connected with it on September15, 1901, and, with his advent and the execution of plans promulgated by himor executed by the management with his aid, P. & F. Corbin entered upon anew epoch in its history. Mr. Jarvis was born in Deposit, N. Y., April 6, 1856. He was educatedin the public schools of Binghamton, N. Y., where his parents moved when hewas two years old, and later graduated from the Sheffield
. other businessconnection, they sought his assistance. He was accordingly made the vice-president of the company, becoming actively connected with it on September15, 1901, and, with his advent and the execution of plans promulgated by himor executed by the management with his aid, P. & F. Corbin entered upon anew epoch in its history. Mr. Jarvis was born in Deposit, N. Y., April 6, 1856. He was educatedin the public schools of Binghamton, N. Y., where his parents moved when hewas two years old, and later graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, having completed a course ofcivil engineering. From this time he wasassociated with the Berlin Iron Bridge East Berlin, Conn., first as a civilengineer and later as presi-dent of the the Ameri-can Bridge thef / Berlin company, Mr. Jarvis wasmade vice-presi-dent of the largecorporation andplaced in chargeof the operatingdepartment. Thisoffice he resignedjust before be-coming identified. LOCKSMITH AT WORK 84 HISTORY O F THE HOUSE O F P . & F . C O R B I N with P. & F. Corbin. The position assumed by in P. & F. Corbins management is one for whichhis talents and previous training pecuharly fithim. He is accustomed to handhng the organ-ization of commercial forces upon a large scaleand the creation of systems and methods toproduce the largest results with the leastwaste of movement. The advanced methodsof modern business find in him an earnestadvocate, and many of the changes that haveoccurred since his connection with the companyare directly traceable to him. Another new building was planned, to beerected on the site of the brass foundry builtin 1874, the size of the building to be approx-imately 200 X 60 feet and seven stories in all the buildings had been built withheavy brick walls, strong enough to sustain theweight of the floors, some of them being as thickas thirty-six inches. I
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