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JOSEPH ELLIOTT WRAGG
Originally published in 1900 |
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JOSEPH ELLIOTT WRAGG, a prominent retired manufacturer and
ice dealer of North Bergen, N. J., descends from a distinguished family
of England. one of his ancestors, John Wragg, being buried in Westminster
Abbey. He is the son of James Wragg and Hannah Hodkins. and was
born in Chesterfield, England, on the 18th of April, 1828. When a boy –
not four years of age – he came with his parents to America, and in 1839
settled in Bergen County. N. J. In 1859 he removed to English Neighborhood, Hudson County, where he still resides, and where he was engaged
with his brother, John Wragg, under the firm name of James Wragg's
Sons, in the manufacture of worsted, linen, and horse-hair oil press-cloths
for linseed, cotton seed, rape seed, mustard seed, sperm, and stearine. He
continued in this business with success until 1870, gaining a wide reputation for ability, sound judgment, and executive skill. From 1869 to 1882 he
was engaged in the ice business, building up a large and successful trade.
He had received, as a boy, a good private school education in Williamsburg, N. Y. In public affairs, and especially in the development of the community, he has always taken a deep interest, but never aspired to office or political preferment. He has exerted an important influence in various directions, and by courage and perseverance has achieved a high reputation in all the relations of life. Mr. Wragg was married, October 10, 1859, to Catharine Fisher Tracy, widow of William Henry Tracy, daughter of Michael Fisher and Martha Engle, and granddaughter of Lieutenant Andrew Engle, a distinguished Revolutionary soldier, and Janette Strachan, his wife. Mrs. Wragg died May 15, 1898. She had two daughters by her first husband, viz.: Margaret M. Tracy and Ellie M. Tracy. The family reside at Fairview, N. J.
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