Ogdensburg Journal - Feb 17, 1937
William C. Wilcox, 80, of 402 Patterson street, died this morning at 8:50 o'clock at his home. A complication of diseases caused his death.
Mr. Wilcox, who was one of the city's best known business men had operated a garage and oil business at 938-44 Ford Street, since 1914. Previous to that, he was engaged in the milk business on the Canton Road for 30 years. He also operated the Maple City Milling Company here at one time and also conducted a wood and coal business.
Surviving him are a son, Ralph K. Wilcox, who has been associated with his father in the garage business here and three grandchildren, Marjorie, Mary Annice and Avis Wilcox; a brother, John Wilcox of the Canton Road, two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Raymond of Massena and Mrs. Alvin Northrup of Fort Dodge, Ia, and 17 nephews and nieces. His wife, Mrs. Mary Jane Kanoff Wilcox died eight years ago. Burial will be at Ogdensburg Cemetery.
Copied from the October 30, 1949 Massena Observer(The first glass milk bottle)Dr. Harvey D. Thatcher (of Potsdam )had invented the first sanitary milk pail in 1883. A year later he designed a model of a bottle on a hand lathe and had some hand blown in glass in New York. Unable to sell them to any dairyman in Potsdam, he finally persuaded William C. Wilcox of Ogdensburg, who operated a dairy farm, to try them. Wilcox, father of Ralph Wilcox, was thus the first man in the world to deliver milk in a glass bottle. The wooden pegs used for stoppers were not satisfactory, nor were glass tops which Dr. Thatcher tried, and Dr. Thatcher developed a paraffined paper top which is essentially the same as it used today. (1949) He stamped the first tops out by hand, later built a foot power press. Today. the milk industry uses 20,000,000 covers and tops for milk bottles. Again, Mr. Wilcox was the first man in the world to deliver milk in glass bottles with paper tops.
William C. Wilcox, 80, of 402 Patterson street, died this morning at 8:50 o'clock at his home. A complication of diseases caused his death.
Mr. Wilcox, who was one of the city's best known business men had operated a garage and oil business at 938-44 Ford Street, since 1914. Previous to that, he was engaged in the milk business on the Canton Road for 30 years. He also operated the Maple City Milling Company here at one time and also conducted a wood and coal business.
Surviving him are a son, Ralph K. Wilcox, who has been associated with his father in the garage business here and three grandchildren, Marjorie, Mary Annice and Avis Wilcox; a brother, John Wilcox of the Canton Road, two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Raymond of Massena and Mrs. Alvin Northrup of Fort Dodge, Ia, and 17 nephews and nieces. His wife, Mrs. Mary Jane Kanoff Wilcox died eight years ago. Burial will be at Ogdensburg Cemetery.
Copied from the October 30, 1949 Massena Observer(The first glass milk bottle)Dr. Harvey D. Thatcher (of Potsdam )had invented the first sanitary milk pail in 1883. A year later he designed a model of a bottle on a hand lathe and had some hand blown in glass in New York. Unable to sell them to any dairyman in Potsdam, he finally persuaded William C. Wilcox of Ogdensburg, who operated a dairy farm, to try them. Wilcox, father of Ralph Wilcox, was thus the first man in the world to deliver milk in a glass bottle. The wooden pegs used for stoppers were not satisfactory, nor were glass tops which Dr. Thatcher tried, and Dr. Thatcher developed a paraffined paper top which is essentially the same as it used today. (1949) He stamped the first tops out by hand, later built a foot power press. Today. the milk industry uses 20,000,000 covers and tops for milk bottles. Again, Mr. Wilcox was the first man in the world to deliver milk in glass bottles with paper tops.
Ogdensburg Journal - Feb 17, 1937
William C. Wilcox, 80, of 402 Patterson street, died this morning at 8:50 o'clock at his home. A complication of diseases caused his death.
Mr. Wilcox, who was one of the city's best known business men had operated a garage and oil business at 938-44 Ford Street, since 1914. Previous to that, he was engaged in the milk business on the Canton Road for 30 years. He also operated the Maple City Milling Company here at one time and also conducted a wood and coal business.
Surviving him are a son, Ralph K. Wilcox, who has been associated with his father in the garage business here and three grandchildren, Marjorie, Mary Annice and Avis Wilcox; a brother, John Wilcox of the Canton Road, two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Raymond of Massena and Mrs. Alvin Northrup of Fort Dodge, Ia, and 17 nephews and nieces. His wife, Mrs. Mary Jane Kanoff Wilcox died eight years ago. Burial will be at Ogdensburg Cemetery.
Copied from the October 30, 1949 Massena Observer(The first glass milk bottle)Dr. Harvey D. Thatcher (of Potsdam )had invented the first sanitary milk pail in 1883. A year later he designed a model of a bottle on a hand lathe and had some hand blown in glass in New York. Unable to sell them to any dairyman in Potsdam, he finally persuaded William C. Wilcox of Ogdensburg, who operated a dairy farm, to try them. Wilcox, father of Ralph Wilcox, was thus the first man in the world to deliver milk in a glass bottle. The wooden pegs used for stoppers were not satisfactory, nor were glass tops which Dr. Thatcher tried, and Dr. Thatcher developed a paraffined paper top which is essentially the same as it used today. (1949) He stamped the first tops out by hand, later built a foot power press. Today. the milk industry uses 20,000,000 covers and tops for milk bottles. Again, Mr. Wilcox was the first man in the world to deliver milk in glass bottles with paper tops.
William C. Wilcox, 80, of 402 Patterson street, died this morning at 8:50 o'clock at his home. A complication of diseases caused his death.
Mr. Wilcox, who was one of the city's best known business men had operated a garage and oil business at 938-44 Ford Street, since 1914. Previous to that, he was engaged in the milk business on the Canton Road for 30 years. He also operated the Maple City Milling Company here at one time and also conducted a wood and coal business.
Surviving him are a son, Ralph K. Wilcox, who has been associated with his father in the garage business here and three grandchildren, Marjorie, Mary Annice and Avis Wilcox; a brother, John Wilcox of the Canton Road, two sisters, Mrs. W. B. Raymond of Massena and Mrs. Alvin Northrup of Fort Dodge, Ia, and 17 nephews and nieces. His wife, Mrs. Mary Jane Kanoff Wilcox died eight years ago. Burial will be at Ogdensburg Cemetery.
Copied from the October 30, 1949 Massena Observer(The first glass milk bottle)Dr. Harvey D. Thatcher (of Potsdam )had invented the first sanitary milk pail in 1883. A year later he designed a model of a bottle on a hand lathe and had some hand blown in glass in New York. Unable to sell them to any dairyman in Potsdam, he finally persuaded William C. Wilcox of Ogdensburg, who operated a dairy farm, to try them. Wilcox, father of Ralph Wilcox, was thus the first man in the world to deliver milk in a glass bottle. The wooden pegs used for stoppers were not satisfactory, nor were glass tops which Dr. Thatcher tried, and Dr. Thatcher developed a paraffined paper top which is essentially the same as it used today. (1949) He stamped the first tops out by hand, later built a foot power press. Today. the milk industry uses 20,000,000 covers and tops for milk bottles. Again, Mr. Wilcox was the first man in the world to deliver milk in glass bottles with paper tops.
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