Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf, Jr.

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Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf, Jr. ( also Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf II ; born February 27, 1858 in Buffalo ; † September 9, 1942 there ) was an American chemist and entrepreneur . He was a pioneer of the American tar paint industry and was instrumental in the expansion of the hydroelectric power stations in the Niagara Falls .

Life

Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf, Jr., was the third son of the German emigrants Jakob Friedrich Schöllkopf (1819–1899) and Christine Sophie Schöllkopf born. Born dry. The father emigrated to the USA in 1841 after learning the tanner 's trade in Germany . Here he rose to become a major leather manufacturer and mill operator and gained a worldwide reputation through the establishment of the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company to use the hydropower of the Niagara Falls on the American side.

After private lessons and, most recently, parallel attendance at St. Joseph's College in Buffalo, Jacob Frederick Jr. went to Germany at the age of fifteen for seven years in 1873 to study chemistry in Munich and Stuttgart . In Stuttgart he joined the Corps Stauffia . In 1879 he returned to the USA after passing his diploma exam with distinction.

In Buffalo, he joined the Schoellkopf Aniline and Chemical Company, founded by his father in 1879, and built a chemical factory for the manufacture of aniline dyes . In the 1880s he built a branch in New York City and in 1893 in Philadelphia . In 1900, these three plants were combined in the Schöllkopf, Hartford & Hanna Co. , with a capital of over US $ 3 million , and Schoellkopf was elected President. In 1917, the company merged with Beckers Aniline and Chemical Works , Brooklyn, and Benzol Products Company, together with parts of Semet-Solvay , Barrett Company, and General Chemical company in National Aniline, which was endowed with US $ 17 million in capital Chemical Company Inc. , of which he became President. In 1918 he resigned from the chair, but remained a member of the Board of Directors and a shareholder. After his father's death in 1899, he was Vice-President and Director of the Niagara Falls Hydraulic Power and Manufacturing Company, instrumental in expanding the Niagara Falls hydropower plant. While his father started his hydropower activities in 1877 with US $ 77,000 in seed capital, the value in 1992 was US $ 216 million. The construction of the hydropower plants at the Niagara Falls were of crucial importance for the power supply of the neighboring cities and towns as well as the industrial companies of the region and thus the economic development of the state of New York .

In addition, Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf, Jr., President of American Magnesia Co. , President of Contact Process Company , Vice President of Commonwealth Trust Company , Buffalo, Vice President of Central National Bank , Buffalo, Director of Columbia National Bank , Director the Security Safe Deposit Company , Director of Cliff Paper Company , Niagara Falls, and Director of International Hotel Co.

Furthermore, Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf, Jr., was involved in numerous political, cultural and charitable institutions. He was a member of the Republican Party , the Buffalo Historical Society, the National Geographical Society of Washington, District of Columbia, and the American Society of Political and Social Science. He was a member of the Buffalo Orphans Club and served as a trustee for Buffalo General Hospital for years. He married Wilma Spring from Stuttgart in 1882, with whom he had a son, Jacob Frederick III, and two daughters.

literature

  • Biographies for Jacob F. Schoellkopf, Sr., Louis Schoellkopf, Arthur Schoellkopf, Jacob Schoellkopf, Alfred Schoellkopf, CP Hugo Schoellkopf, and Henry Juengling. On: archivaria.com
  • Jacob Frederick Schoellkopf, Jr. . In: Geneological and Family History of Western New York edited by William Richard Cutter, 1912, Volume I, page 394.
  • Diane Glynn: The Schoellkopfs, 1842-1994, A family history , 1995.
  • Jacob F. Schoellkopf, Founder of Dye Works in Buffalo, New York . On: www.colorantshistory.org
  • National Aniline and Chemical Company, Buffalo, New York . On: www.colorantshistory.org

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Keil:  Schöllkopf, Jakob Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 374 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ OUT AS HEAD OF ANILINE CO. , New York Times, March 14, 1918.
  3. ^ Jacob F. Schoellkopf . On: www.niagara2008.com

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personal data
SURNAME Schoellkopf, Jacob Frederick, Jr.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoellkopf, Jacob Frederick II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American chemist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1942
Place of death Buffalo