His father died in 1841, and for more than ten years Mr. Havemyer devoted himself to the care of his own and his father's estates. During these years he made a tour of pleasure and observation through the United States, and also traveled in Europe. In | 1855 he again engaged in active business in Williams- ^ burg, then a suburb of Brooklyn, and the business then established has been continued with greatly increased facilities up to the present. So greatly has it grown that the capacity of refining has been increased five hundred tons of raw sugar a day, and j four thousand barrels of refined sugar are turned out I every twenty-four hours. The consumption of coal is one hundred tons per day, while two thousand men are employed and the steam-engines represent j twenty-two hundred horse-power. Throughout the whole establishment everything is conducted in the most systematic manner, and a jiractical man visiting > the establishment is immediately impressed with the j magnificient engineering everywhere present, -- the arrangement of the machinery, the closeness of the connections and arrangements for the cheap and easy handling of the immense amount of material daily used. There are seventeen steam-engines, many of them of large capacity, and all of modern construction.

In 1861 the firm was composed ot Frederick C. Havemyer, his son George and Dwight Townsend, under the firm-name of Havemyer, Townsend & Co.

George Havemyer was killed by an accident before the close of the year. He was a young man of brilliant promise and his death was a severe blow to his father's family. Subsequently Mr. Havemyer admilted his son, Theodore A., and his son-in-law, J. Lawrence Elder, as partners, and the firm-name became Havemyers & Elder, which is still retained. F. C. Havemyer, Theodore A. and H.