Will County IL Archives Biographies.....Hotchkiss, Thomas F 
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Author: Past and Present Will County IL; 1907

Thomas F. Hotchkiss, general superintendent and purchasing agent of the 
Phoenix Horse Shoe Company of Joliet, is a native of Brooklyn, New York, born 
July 12, 1868. He was educated in the public schools of his native city and 
entered business life in the employ of Harper Brothers, publishers of New 
York, with whom he remained for two years. In 1887 he became connected with 
the Phoenix Horse Shoe Company as office boy in the offices of the firm in New 
York city. He was subsequently sent to Poughkeepsie, New York, and has 
steadily worked his way upward, filling various positions until he was 
promoted to that of general superintendent and purchasing agent of the Joliet 
plant, in which capacity he has remained for a number of years. The building 
operations of this company were started in Joliet in 1892 and the plant was 
put in operation early in 1894. It covers a site of twenty acres with ten main 
buildings, and shoes for both horses and mules are manufactured from steel and 
from iron. There are about three hundred and fifty employes and the trade is 
confined almost exclusively to the United States, there being a large home 
consumption for the product. This plant ships as far east as Ohio, the mill at 
Poughkeepsie, New York, supplying the trade east of that state. The business 
was established by Charles W. Miller at Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1885 and he 
remained its president up to the time of his death, which occurred in April, 
1901, when he was succeeded by his son, Elisha H. Miller. The other officers 
are A. E. Nusbaum, treasurer; S. H. Roberts, secretary; and Thomas F. 
Hotchkiss, general superintendent and purchasing agent. Mr. Hotchkiss was 
married in 1896 to Miss Margaret Phelps, a daughter of Captain Egbert Phelps, 
of Joliet, and they have become the parents of three children, Marjorie, 
Isabelle and Phelps. During their residence in Joliet they have gained a wide 
acquaintance and the hospitality of many of the best homes of the city is 
cordially extended them. Mr. Hotchkiss is recognized as a man of good business 
ability and executive force, able in his management, strong in purpose and 
with keen foresight—qualities which make him very capable in the office which 
he is now filling. 

Additional Comments:
PAST AND PRESENT OF WILL COUNTY, ILLINOIS By W. W. Stevens President of the 
Will County Pioneers Association; Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing 
Company, 1907

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