The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-21
IN ENaOts1ANa.
Israel sgoii;ics.

The death of Israel Holmes, father of
Mrs. NJ. j. Francisco, of Rutland. which
occurred at his residence in Waterbury,
Connecticut, ON Wednesday, removes from
that city one of its most prominent and enter
terprising citizens, IN the 74th year of his
age, having been born on the 10Th of De-
cember 1900. His father Israel Holmes,
says the Waterbury american, from Green
witch in that state, removed to Waterbury
and in l71i, married Sarah Judd, daughter
of Captain Samuel Judd, of revolutionary
memory, and settled in Waterbury. Being
of an cnterprisng turn, he commenced
business with Jesse Hopkins and embarked
in the West India trade and sailed for
Demarara, where lie was struck down with
the yellow fever, aud died there soon after
his arrival, leaving young family of four
sons and two daughters to struggle with
the yIcissitudcs of an early orphanage.
The sons proved themselves worthy of
their heritage from the Judds and Hop
kinses, who were among the original pro-
| prietors of the town, and of the genuine
| Puritan stock. One daughter still sur
wives, the widow of an honored citizen.
the deceased being the last surviving
brother, whose death, in his ripe
old age we so deeply lament. Few
among his contemporaries have displayed
more activity or executive ability in the
manufacturing line than our deceased
| friend Commencing with the ordinary
advantages of common school education,
he was teacher in Waterbury school for
while in the West Center district with
marked success he was then transferred
to principal clerkship in the store of ].
NJ. i. q VIM. H. Scovill In 1920 he was
selected by this firm TO go on a voyage of
| discovery and investigation concerning the
possibilities of the introduction on thor
ough basis of the manufacture of rolled
brass, toward which the Scovils were feel
ing their way in connection with their but
ton business. A long and stormy passage
in sailing ship was type of the stormy
scenes he was destined to encounter
in the prosecution of his mis-
SION English jealousy and Eng
fish law were both arrayed against
him; the latter, making it almost penal
offence to entice away the workmen from
their employers, and the former making it
especially warm for the Prescriptions Yam
kee, who dared to interfere with the right
of England To do the manufacturing of the
world, and the two combined succeeded in
making his stay series of strategic move
ment and diplomacy oil the one hand, and
OF broad dangers and narrow escapes on the
other, the record of which would to-day
read like romance. But for him "The
bright lexicon Of youth had no such word
as aH.' lie brought his mission to a sue
cessiu termination, as he subsequently did
two similar voyages. lie was, we believe,
more or less directly connected with the
founding of all our large manufacturing
concerns except Benedict q Burnham.
First he bought out the rolling business
for the Scoyills; next was established
Holmes Il lIotchkiss, in which the wire and
tube business were added to the rolling
mil, This concern was afterward more
widely known as Brown & Elton's, and its
final dissolution resulted in the establish
ment of Brown Brothers on the one hand
and the Waterbury Brass company on the
other. But in the meantime, Mr.. Holmes
was IN restless pursuit of further develop
ments, and in connection with Israel Coe,
started the Wolcottvlle Brass Works, for
the purpose of adding the manufacture of