The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-12-14
BUILDER OF THE MONITOR" DEAD Thomas Fitch Rowland, Born in This City, Passes
 Away in New
 York. BUILT THE FAMOUS
 SHIP IN 100 DAYS Funeral to Take Place Monday, With Interment in Ever
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A long. useful ana ksxfly hezsE V, career is ended in the death of Thoi. .s.3 Fitch Rowland, whose name wfM live in American history as tho ooraeractns who built the celebrated first monitor of inperishabls tame that met ana vanqulshed the rebel ircnsidez. the Merrinac which had made suoh havoc with Union warships and which. nut for its defeat by the Monitor usaxh& have changed the whole aspect 1f me great civil war,
 Thonnas Fitch Rowland was Of Nsw Haven birth. born in lsSI, and ever cherished warm interest in tho city of his birth though for over half century his home had bssn in New York city or in Brooklyn.
 Tit was the founder of the celebrated Continental Iron Works at ureenpoint, near New York. and it's active head un- til recently when declining health corn- Apelled him to relinqussh much of l1le burden of business cares
 He was a son of George Rowland, noted New Haven man In the early part of the last century, who was pro- prietor of the old mill which waa on Union street where the old passenger depot subsequently, stood YounR Rowland assisted his father in the mill for a time while in his teens. but his proohvities and tastes were for me- chinery and civil engineering. EEo went to work when about eighteen years of age in the railroad shops in New Haven and he was a locomotive engineer for a time on the old New York and New Haven road Going to New York when not yet twenty one. he became connected with the iron work business and out of this grew and developed the great industry which has made his name noted in the business in the country for 6 long period.
 Although his connection wytK fnS building of the first Monitor was as It's contractor great praise was due and was awarded him for the astonishing rapidity with which the warshiD was built. It was constructed and made ready for it's work in the short space of one hundred days.
 MT. Rowiands plant was ever large ly engaged in the manufacture of iron- work for steamboatA and in recent years the shops turned out great number of Morrison corrugated fur- naces for ships and steamboAts.
 I MT. Rowland died at his home SaS Madison avenue New York, which had been his residence for many yeArR Previously his home was for years in Brooklyn. His summers were most ly spent at the summer Sesidenoe al Larohmont Els wife. who was New Haven woman, nee Bradley died about health had failed seriousiy, He IsaveS him in his business Thomas Eit0h Rcwlahd, jr, and Charles Bradley Row. land, whose summer hemN was at th0aE fathers in LIarchmont, Another son, George, died last summer.
 MR Rowland, as before mentioned, took a lively interest in the welfare oi New Haven, and was g frequent visitor here before fis health failed He wa1 a life member of the New Haven Ccl- ony Historical society.
 The funeral will take place on Mon- day afternoon oil the arrlyai of the train from New York due here at i:Io. The interment will be in the family plot in Evergreen cemetery,
 The deceased leaves two sisters. both of this city Sarah Rowland. who tA- eides on Lawrence street, and M. JAnnfe Rowland, who rsaides on Olive street