Columbia County PA Archives Biographies.....RATTI, Joseph unknown - living in 1899
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  JOSEPH RATTI, whose name is well-known throughout the states of Pennsylvania and
  New Jersey, and in New York City, where he has been associated in business since
  his residence in this country, is the treasurer and manager of the Bloomsburg
  Silk Mills, one of the leading industries of the thriving town of Bloomsburg.
  
    The subject of this biographical review was born in Como, Italy, and after
  reaching maturity he began his career in the employ of Ceriana Bros., one of the
  largest banking firms and silk-reelers of Italy. After becoming a skilled
  workman at his trade he came to America and was employed to throw raw silk for
  the weaving looms at Hoboken, N. J., where he worked up a good patronage. He
  moved to Bloomsburg in 1888, taking his machinery with him, and built a large
  three-story brick factory, 150 by 50 feet, where he manufactured silk.
  
    In 1891 Mr. Ratti began the manufacture of dress-goods, making a specialty of
  black silk dress-goods, and the business increased so rapidly that it was
  necessary to build an additional building, equal in size to the structure first
  used. The mills are heated by steam and lighted throughout by gas and electric
  lights. Four hundred men are employed, all being skilled workmen, many of whom
  learned the trade under our subject. The mill is one of the best equipped mills
  in the state, being well-lighted and having the latest improved machinery and
  other modern facilities for the convenience of the employees and for the
  manufacture of a perfect product. Our subject is a man of sterling worth and
  integrity and always has the interests of his employees at heart, as he has
  built twenty handsome brick houses about the factory, in which many of them reside.
  
    Mr. Ratti is assisted in the management of the business by Frederick G. York,
  whose name is also familiar to the people of Columbia County. He is a native of
  Paterson, N. J., and since he was eighteen years of age has been connected with
  the manufacture of silk. He was general superintendent of the Meding
  Manufacturing Company of Paterson, N. J., for many years, and in 1893 removed to
  Bloomsburg to accept his present position with the Bloomsburg Manufacturing
  Company, of which he is also a stockholder and director. He is also a partner in
  the firm, the Elkland & Graystone Company.
  
  Mr. Ratti is closely connected with all public movements and takes an active
  part in all measures which tend to ameliorate or to improve the condition of
  mankind.
  
  
  Additional Comments:
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  Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
  Published by 
  Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
  
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