Collections Item Detail
Newspaper clipping from album with photo of Hoboken Red Cross Volunteers; partial obituary of Louis Ferguson, from Jersey Observer, Jan. 7, 1941.
Archive
Newspaper clipping from album with photo of Hoboken Red Cross Volunteers; partial obituary of Louis Ferguson (of Ferguson Brothers Furniture Company), from the Jersey Observer, Sunday, January 7, 1941.
Photo caption in part: Workers of the Hoboken Chapter of the American Red Cross are busy making sweaters and other winter clothing for the distressed people of the Democratic nations of the world. Here is a group of the workers at Trinity Episcopal Church Hall, Washington Street, where they meet twice a week.
The women are identified left to right.
On the reverse is a partial obituary for Louis Ferguson, 83, retired president of Ferguson Brothers Furniture Company at Eighth and Monroe Sts., Hoboken. It noted the firm was founded by his late father, his late twin brother, Harry (died 1937), and him in the late 19th century in the Chelsea section of New York City. Due to expansion, it moved to Hoboken in 1900 and became one of the largest of its kind in the country. Louis' wife died in 1901 and he was the "last of his line." He had been recently living in the Bolivar Hotel in the winter and summered in a home in Garrison. He had only retired in November.
2002.111.0022
2002.111
Cooke, Edward Stanton
Donation
Gift of Edward Cooke Stanton
1941 - 1941
Date(s) Created: 1941 Date(s): 1941 Level of Description: Item
Display Value: Poor Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2003-08-15