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Title: History of Passaic and its environs ... : historical-biographical
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Scott, William Winfield, 1855-1935
Subjects: Passaic (N.J.) -- History Passaic (N.J.) -- Biography Clifton (N.J.) Garfield (N.J.) Wallington (N.J.)
Publisher: New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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its first president, and the newcompany began delivering oil to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in the followingMay. The early history of this company is a thrilling story, for its foundershad to encounter not only the usual difficulties of a new and untried enterprise,but to fight for control of their company when a traitorous minority interesttried to seize possession of and sell the company to the Standard Oil Company,which at that time was all-powerful in the petroleum industry and used methodsto maintain that position which were long ago discountenanced by the courts.After a few years, however, the company became thoroughly established, andbefore Mr. Benson died in Februarj, 1888, he had the pleasure of knowingthat he had founded a great and successful enterprise. The Tide Water Pipe Company, Ltd., was merged into the Tide WaterOil Company in 1907, but with no change in stockholders. It is now one of theoldest and strongest of the great oil companies, with a capital of $50,000,000, I
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BIOGRAPHICAL. 153 and an unbroken dividend record since 1883. In 1858 Byron D. Benson married Minerva A. Stevens, a daughter of JohnL. Stevens, of Brewerton, New York, and a granddaughter of Oliver Stevens,a native of Connecticut, who was a soldier of the Revolution and the first set-tler of what is now the town of Brewerton. Miss Stevens father. JudgeStevens, as he was called, held for nearly forty years the office of justice of thepeace in his town; twice was appointed county judge; was one of the organ-izers of the first plank road built in the United States (that running fromSyracuse to Brewerton) ; and was for thirty years an elder in the Church ofthe Disciples at Brewerton. Three children were born of this marriage: RobertDix, of further mention; William Sumner, born February 21, 1864; andBessie, born March 22, 1866. (X) Robert Dix Benson, eldest child of Byron David and Minerva A.(Stevens) Benson, was born at Brewerton, Onondaga county. New York, onMay 14, 1861. In 1865 he was

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