Richard C. Stofer, President of Norwich Pharmacal Co., Honored - 1915

Honor for Norwich

Richard C. Stofer Named by Gov. Whitman for State Industrial Council

Utica Saturday Globe, September 1915

 

Richard Calvin Stofer

1862 - 1920

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Gov. Charles S. Whitman has seen fit to honor Norwich by the selection of a well-known resident, Richard C. Stofer, as a member of the State industrial Council.  Under the law passed by the last Legislature there are 10 members of the council, which will act as an Advisory Board to the State Industrial Commission.

 

The membership of the council is divided equally between representatives of the employers and the employees.  The members who represent labor are James P. Holland, of New York; John C. Clark, of Buffalo; Thomas M. Gaffney, of Syracuse, Richard H. Curran of Rochester, and Miss Melinda Scott, president of the Women's Trade Union league of New York.  The employers on the board are Edward J. Barcal, of Buffalo; George Emmons, of Schenectady; Richard C. Stofer, of Norwich; Irving T. Bush, of New York, and Carlton A. Chase, of Syracuse.  All of the members of the industrial Council serve without pay.

 

Mr Stofer is the president of the Norwich Pharmacal Company and is deeply interested in the development of every precaution for the proper protection of the lives and health of employees.

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Death Notice

Binghamton Press, September 11, 1920

Norwich:  R.C. Stofer, president of the Norwich Pharmacal company and a leader in the community, died yesterday.  Mr. Stofer had been ill at the Norwich Memorial hospital for about two months.  he was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1862, and came to Norwich in 1892 as superintendent and chief chemist of the Pharmacal company's plant.  In 1906 he was made president of the company and held that office until his death.  He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, Norwich chapter 302, and an active member in the Congregational church in this city. The funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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Obituary

Utica Observer, September 11, 1920

 

Norwich:  Funeral services for Richard C. Stofer, president of the Norwich Pharmacal Company, who died at the Norwich Memorial Hospital yesterday, will be held at the Congregational Church at 2:30 o'clock Monday afternoon.  Interment will be made in Mt. Hope [Norwich, NY].

 

Passing away on almost the eve of his 58th birthday, Mr. Stofer' s death is keenly felt in this city and county.  For the past few days his death had been expected, but it nevertheless, was a great shock to his numberless friends and acquaintances, and the sympathy of all is extended to the bereaved family.

 

Mr. Stofer had been connected with the Norwich pharmacy for the past 28 years and since 1906 had been at the head of the institution.  He came to Norwich in 1892 as superintendent and chief chemist and was soon after made vice president.  At that time the Norwich concern occupied a part of the wooden piano factory, while today it has a fine group of modern structures covering several acres and enjoys a high position among the half dozen other large concerns of its kind in the Untied States.  It also has plants in Kansas city and Chicago.

 

He was a leader in local civic and philanthropic circles, and occupied a prominent place in the community.  He served as director of the Loan and Building Association many years, for many years was president of the Y.M.C.A., superintendent of the Congregational Sunday School, and at the time of his death, as told in this paper yesterday, was president of the directors of the Norwich Memorial Hospital.

 

During the time this city was struggling to build a hospital, Mr. Stofer more than anyone else made it a reality.  he put his shoulder to the wheel and what the Norwich Memorial Hospital is today [is a monument] to his faithful work  It is a touching coincidence that he should spend the last few weeks of his life receiving the tender care and treatment that he did so much to make possible.

 

Mr. Stofer was born Sept. 11, 1862 in Wilmington, Del.  He was a prominent Mason being a member of Norwich Commandery, Harmony Chapter and Norwich Lodge No. 302.  He was president of the American Drug Manufacturers' Association and of the Associated Industries of New York, and for many years vice president and director of the National Association of Manufacturers of Medicinal Products, a member of the Council of National Defense and national counsellor to the United States Chamber of Commerce.

 

Besides his wife he leaves one son Dr. M. Webster Stofer and one daughter Miss  Helen Stofer.

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Memorial to President Stofer

Chenango Union, September 15, 1921

 

September 10, which was the anniversary of the death of Richard C. Stofer, for many years president of the Norwich Pharmacal company, was observed by the company by sending to its customers a memorial bearing a splendid photographic likeness of Mr. Stofer and the following inscription:

 

"A year ago today our late President, Richard Calvin Stofer, passed on to that bourn from which no mortal has ever returned.  A man among men, beloved by his fellow workers and business associates, he left behind him the guiding influence of his many lovable qualities and commercial genius that will always be felt in the daily life of those with whom he came in contact."