Arthur McEwan

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Arthur McEwan

Source: History Morris County New Jersey, Volume II, Lewis Publishing Co., 1914

Arthur McEWAN, a prominent manufacturer of paper box board at Whippany, Morris county, New Jersey, and a leading spirit in a number of other important business enterprises, is of Scotch descent. His grandfather, Anthony McEWAN, was a paper maker by trade, in Scotland, and married Mary COMB.

Robert, son of Anthony and Mary (COMB) McEWAN, was born near the city of Glasgow, Scotland, September 8, 1828, and died in New Jersey in 1909. He came to America in early manhood, and at first settled at Bloomfield, New Jersey, where he was associated for several years with L. A. BROWN in the manufacture of air-dried straw board. From Bloomfield, he removed to Easton, Connecticut, where he was engaged in the manufacture of paper for some years. In 1884 he removed with his family to Caldwell, New Jersey, and there commenced the manufacture of paper under the firm name of Robert McEWAN & Sons. Four years later he removed to Whippany, Morris county, and the firm was incorporated under the name of the McEWAN Brothers Company. In 1902 this corporation was sold to the United Box Board and Paper Company, and incorporated in 1904, under the name of McEWAN Brothers. The concern converts old newspapers, etc., into paper box board, the idea for this manufacture having originated with Robert McEWAN. The president of this corporation is Robert Bruce McEWAN, and Arthur McEWAN is the treasurer and general manager. Robert McEWAN married Sarah Ann WALSH, born in England in 1842, died in Newark, New Jersey, in 1900. They had children: William Wallace, a paper manufacturer, who died in 1905 at the age of forty-nine years; Andrew Wilson, died at the age of twenty years; Edith, married George W. PHILLIPS, of Newark, New Jersey; Jesse L., paper manufacturer of Whippany; Mary, married William L. WILSON, of Whippany; Richard W., president of the Morristown & Erie Railroad Company, and also a paper manufacturer; Robert Bruce, president of the McEWAN Brothers corporation; Arthur, the subject of this sketch; Frank, a paper manufacturer in Newark, New Jersey, resides in Madison, Morris county,; Frederick, a paper manufacture of Newark, also resides in Madison.

Arthur McEWAN was born in Easton, Connecticut, May 28, 1872. He acquired his education in the public schools and at a business college, then entered upon his business career at the age of twenty-one years. He became associated with his father in the paper manufacturing industry, and has been closely identified with it until the present time, when he is the treasurer and general manager of the McEWAN Brothers corporation at Whippany. He is also the president of the Stony Brook Paper Company. He is a stockholder of the Morris County Brick Company. He is a general manager of the Morristown & Erie Railroad Company. He is a member of the Morristown Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Mecca Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine; and has attained the thirty-second degree in this order. Mr. McEWAN married, in 1895, Ella U. ANDERSON, of Washington, New Jersey, and has had one son: R. E. McEWAN.

Transcribed by John Cresseveur (1949-2003)