Thomas S. Keery, 66, Was Active In Hancock Affairs
Thomas S. Keery, aged 66 years, a lifelong and highly respected citizen of Hancock, for many years identified with the business and political life of the community, passed away, at his home in this village at 9:15 p.m. on Sunday evening Jan. 16, 1937, following an illness of four days with pneumonia. Being in the prime of life announcement of his illness was at first not considered serious and his death came as a shock to his wide circle of acquaintances and his relatives.
Mr. Keery was born at Corbettsville, N.Y. Nov. 20, 1870, a son of Abram Keery and Sarah Wright Keery. He came to Hancock with the family when a young boy and spent his entire lifetime in and near Hancock. In 1893 he was united in marriage with Nettie A. Tupper who survives, together with two sons, and one daughter, namely Louis H. Keery of Waterloo, N.Y., T. Russell Keery of Boston, Mass., and Mrs. L. H. Nichols of Hempstead, L.I. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. Sarah Gray of Buffalo, N.Y., and a brother Abram Keery of Custer City, PA.
Funeral services were held at his home on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. the Rev R. D. Oddenfree of the Hancock M.E. Church officiating. Burial was in Riverview cemetery. The casket bearers were: James Phillips, Fred Fifield, Charles Stoutenberg, Clement Myers, Virgil Whitaker and Fred M. Whitaker.
Mr. Keery’s was a very active life particularly so in his younger days, being associated with various business activities, most prominent of which were lumber, acid, sand and gravel. He took keen interest in the political activities of the town, not as an officer holder, but as a loyal supporter, and worker of the Republican interests. In early life he became a member of Hancock Lodge, F. & A. M. and later of Kalurah Shrine of Binghamton.
Those from out of town attending the funeral services were: Abram Keery, Custer City, sons James and Richard; Frederick Gaffney, N.Y.C.; Mrs. Nichols and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Keery and T. Russell Kerry.
Hancock Herald.
Wood, Alcohol and Whiskers
A special dispatch to the New York Tribune from Hancock, N.Y. January 11, 1894
Thomas Keery, the well-known wood alcohol manufacturer of New York and Pennsylvania, with six large factories in this town has cut down wages 25 per cent, and put is works on half time. Worse than all else, he has dismantled one large factory at Keeryville, and packed away the copper stills and tubing to prevent loss by fire or deterioration.
In his largest factory the Cadosia Chemical Works, he has drawn the fires from half the retorts, removed the copper stills to a place of safety and discharged half his force. He is Hancock’s wealthiest and most enterprising citizen and has done a great deal for it in the way of local improvement
In the immediate vicinity about a million dollars are invested in the business. By an arrangement with the whiskey trust the wood alcohol pool made an agreement covering a period of five years to sell their products at 70 cents a gallon.
Almost without warning the whiskey trust informed the wood alcohol pool to look out for themselves, as they could not carry out their contract to handle the product of the factories at 70 cents a gallon. The price has dropped to 65, to 60, to 55 and finally to 50 cents, and even at the last named figure the works which are running at all are on half time only.
The Keery's had three children Ethel V, Lewis H. and Russell
Thomas S. Keery, aged 66 years, a lifelong and highly respected citizen of Hancock, for many years identified with the business and political life of the community, passed away, at his home in this village at 9:15 p.m. on Sunday evening Jan. 16, 1937, following an illness of four days with pneumonia. Being in the prime of life announcement of his illness was at first not considered serious and his death came as a shock to his wide circle of acquaintances and his relatives.
Mr. Keery was born at Corbettsville, N.Y. Nov. 20, 1870, a son of Abram Keery and Sarah Wright Keery. He came to Hancock with the family when a young boy and spent his entire lifetime in and near Hancock. In 1893 he was united in marriage with Nettie A. Tupper who survives, together with two sons, and one daughter, namely Louis H. Keery of Waterloo, N.Y., T. Russell Keery of Boston, Mass., and Mrs. L. H. Nichols of Hempstead, L.I. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. Sarah Gray of Buffalo, N.Y., and a brother Abram Keery of Custer City, PA.
Funeral services were held at his home on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. the Rev R. D. Oddenfree of the Hancock M.E. Church officiating. Burial was in Riverview cemetery. The casket bearers were: James Phillips, Fred Fifield, Charles Stoutenberg, Clement Myers, Virgil Whitaker and Fred M. Whitaker.
Mr. Keery’s was a very active life particularly so in his younger days, being associated with various business activities, most prominent of which were lumber, acid, sand and gravel. He took keen interest in the political activities of the town, not as an officer holder, but as a loyal supporter, and worker of the Republican interests. In early life he became a member of Hancock Lodge, F. & A. M. and later of Kalurah Shrine of Binghamton.
Those from out of town attending the funeral services were: Abram Keery, Custer City, sons James and Richard; Frederick Gaffney, N.Y.C.; Mrs. Nichols and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Keery and T. Russell Kerry.
Hancock Herald.
Wood, Alcohol and Whiskers
A special dispatch to the New York Tribune from Hancock, N.Y. January 11, 1894
Thomas Keery, the well-known wood alcohol manufacturer of New York and Pennsylvania, with six large factories in this town has cut down wages 25 per cent, and put is works on half time. Worse than all else, he has dismantled one large factory at Keeryville, and packed away the copper stills and tubing to prevent loss by fire or deterioration.
In his largest factory the Cadosia Chemical Works, he has drawn the fires from half the retorts, removed the copper stills to a place of safety and discharged half his force. He is Hancock’s wealthiest and most enterprising citizen and has done a great deal for it in the way of local improvement
In the immediate vicinity about a million dollars are invested in the business. By an arrangement with the whiskey trust the wood alcohol pool made an agreement covering a period of five years to sell their products at 70 cents a gallon.
Almost without warning the whiskey trust informed the wood alcohol pool to look out for themselves, as they could not carry out their contract to handle the product of the factories at 70 cents a gallon. The price has dropped to 65, to 60, to 55 and finally to 50 cents, and even at the last named figure the works which are running at all are on half time only.
The Keery's had three children Ethel V, Lewis H. and Russell
Thomas S. Keery, 66, Was Active In Hancock Affairs
Thomas S. Keery, aged 66 years, a lifelong and highly respected citizen of Hancock, for many years identified with the business and political life of the community, passed away, at his home in this village at 9:15 p.m. on Sunday evening Jan. 16, 1937, following an illness of four days with pneumonia. Being in the prime of life announcement of his illness was at first not considered serious and his death came as a shock to his wide circle of acquaintances and his relatives.
Mr. Keery was born at Corbettsville, N.Y. Nov. 20, 1870, a son of Abram Keery and Sarah Wright Keery. He came to Hancock with the family when a young boy and spent his entire lifetime in and near Hancock. In 1893 he was united in marriage with Nettie A. Tupper who survives, together with two sons, and one daughter, namely Louis H. Keery of Waterloo, N.Y., T. Russell Keery of Boston, Mass., and Mrs. L. H. Nichols of Hempstead, L.I. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. Sarah Gray of Buffalo, N.Y., and a brother Abram Keery of Custer City, PA.
Funeral services were held at his home on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. the Rev R. D. Oddenfree of the Hancock M.E. Church officiating. Burial was in Riverview cemetery. The casket bearers were: James Phillips, Fred Fifield, Charles Stoutenberg, Clement Myers, Virgil Whitaker and Fred M. Whitaker.
Mr. Keery’s was a very active life particularly so in his younger days, being associated with various business activities, most prominent of which were lumber, acid, sand and gravel. He took keen interest in the political activities of the town, not as an officer holder, but as a loyal supporter, and worker of the Republican interests. In early life he became a member of Hancock Lodge, F. & A. M. and later of Kalurah Shrine of Binghamton.
Those from out of town attending the funeral services were: Abram Keery, Custer City, sons James and Richard; Frederick Gaffney, N.Y.C.; Mrs. Nichols and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Keery and T. Russell Kerry.
Hancock Herald.
Wood, Alcohol and Whiskers
A special dispatch to the New York Tribune from Hancock, N.Y. January 11, 1894
Thomas Keery, the well-known wood alcohol manufacturer of New York and Pennsylvania, with six large factories in this town has cut down wages 25 per cent, and put is works on half time. Worse than all else, he has dismantled one large factory at Keeryville, and packed away the copper stills and tubing to prevent loss by fire or deterioration.
In his largest factory the Cadosia Chemical Works, he has drawn the fires from half the retorts, removed the copper stills to a place of safety and discharged half his force. He is Hancock’s wealthiest and most enterprising citizen and has done a great deal for it in the way of local improvement
In the immediate vicinity about a million dollars are invested in the business. By an arrangement with the whiskey trust the wood alcohol pool made an agreement covering a period of five years to sell their products at 70 cents a gallon.
Almost without warning the whiskey trust informed the wood alcohol pool to look out for themselves, as they could not carry out their contract to handle the product of the factories at 70 cents a gallon. The price has dropped to 65, to 60, to 55 and finally to 50 cents, and even at the last named figure the works which are running at all are on half time only.
The Keery's had three children Ethel V, Lewis H. and Russell
Thomas S. Keery, aged 66 years, a lifelong and highly respected citizen of Hancock, for many years identified with the business and political life of the community, passed away, at his home in this village at 9:15 p.m. on Sunday evening Jan. 16, 1937, following an illness of four days with pneumonia. Being in the prime of life announcement of his illness was at first not considered serious and his death came as a shock to his wide circle of acquaintances and his relatives.
Mr. Keery was born at Corbettsville, N.Y. Nov. 20, 1870, a son of Abram Keery and Sarah Wright Keery. He came to Hancock with the family when a young boy and spent his entire lifetime in and near Hancock. In 1893 he was united in marriage with Nettie A. Tupper who survives, together with two sons, and one daughter, namely Louis H. Keery of Waterloo, N.Y., T. Russell Keery of Boston, Mass., and Mrs. L. H. Nichols of Hempstead, L.I. He also leaves one sister, Mrs. Sarah Gray of Buffalo, N.Y., and a brother Abram Keery of Custer City, PA.
Funeral services were held at his home on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. the Rev R. D. Oddenfree of the Hancock M.E. Church officiating. Burial was in Riverview cemetery. The casket bearers were: James Phillips, Fred Fifield, Charles Stoutenberg, Clement Myers, Virgil Whitaker and Fred M. Whitaker.
Mr. Keery’s was a very active life particularly so in his younger days, being associated with various business activities, most prominent of which were lumber, acid, sand and gravel. He took keen interest in the political activities of the town, not as an officer holder, but as a loyal supporter, and worker of the Republican interests. In early life he became a member of Hancock Lodge, F. & A. M. and later of Kalurah Shrine of Binghamton.
Those from out of town attending the funeral services were: Abram Keery, Custer City, sons James and Richard; Frederick Gaffney, N.Y.C.; Mrs. Nichols and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Keery and T. Russell Kerry.
Hancock Herald.
Wood, Alcohol and Whiskers
A special dispatch to the New York Tribune from Hancock, N.Y. January 11, 1894
Thomas Keery, the well-known wood alcohol manufacturer of New York and Pennsylvania, with six large factories in this town has cut down wages 25 per cent, and put is works on half time. Worse than all else, he has dismantled one large factory at Keeryville, and packed away the copper stills and tubing to prevent loss by fire or deterioration.
In his largest factory the Cadosia Chemical Works, he has drawn the fires from half the retorts, removed the copper stills to a place of safety and discharged half his force. He is Hancock’s wealthiest and most enterprising citizen and has done a great deal for it in the way of local improvement
In the immediate vicinity about a million dollars are invested in the business. By an arrangement with the whiskey trust the wood alcohol pool made an agreement covering a period of five years to sell their products at 70 cents a gallon.
Almost without warning the whiskey trust informed the wood alcohol pool to look out for themselves, as they could not carry out their contract to handle the product of the factories at 70 cents a gallon. The price has dropped to 65, to 60, to 55 and finally to 50 cents, and even at the last named figure the works which are running at all are on half time only.
The Keery's had three children Ethel V, Lewis H. and Russell
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