Uncommon Signed Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt as President
It is inscribed to a noted industrialist, chemist and friend of his
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William J. Matheson was a chemist who attended the University of St. Andrews School of Chemistry in Scotland. Matheson made his mark in the United States as a pioneer of the Solvay ammonia-soda process, as an active promoter of the dyestuffs industry, as the first manufacturer to produce pure crystalline glucose from...
William J. Matheson was a chemist who attended the University of St. Andrews School of Chemistry in Scotland. Matheson made his mark in the United States as a pioneer of the Solvay ammonia-soda process, as an active promoter of the dyestuffs industry, as the first manufacturer to produce pure crystalline glucose from starch, and as a generous patron of research. He was a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt and a constant friend of Britain. He founded the National Aniline and Chemical Company, which merged with four other companies to become the Allied Chemical and Dye Corporation. Matheson’s estate on Long Island, Fort Hill, was well known.
Cabinet photograph by the Pach Brothers studio, inscribed and signed by TR as president, “To my friend and neighbor, Wm. J. Matheson, from Theodore Roosevelt, September 23, 1907.” As nice a signed photograph of TR as president that you can find.
A few weeks later Roosevelt would give his State of the Union address, saying “No nation has greater resources than ours, and I think it can be truthfully said that the citizens of no nation possess greater energy and industrial ability. In no nation are the fundamental business conditions sounder than in ours…”
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