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JAMES SEAMAN ATTERBURY and THOMAS BAKEWELL ATTERBURY, glass manufacturers, Pittsburgh, are the sons of Benjamin Atterbury, who was born in England, in 1792 and was brought by his father, Job Atterbury to New York in 1794, where the latter was engaged in business, and died. Benjamin was reared in that city, becoming an auctioneer, and on arriving at Pittsburgh, in 1827, he took employment as a clerk at the Bakewell glass works, dying seven years later, at the early age of forty-one. He married Eliza Seaman a descendant of the early Knickerbockers; she died in 1881, at the age of eighty-four. They were the parents of two sons and three daughters.

James S. Atterbury was born in New York in 1827, the year the family came to Pittsburgh. At an early age he entered the employ of Bakewell, Pierce & Co., glass manufacturers, and he has ever since given attention to that industry. In 1860 Atterbury Bros, established a glass factory at the corner of Carson and Tenth streets, which they removed twenty years later to the corner of First street. The establishment has steadily prospered, and is among the foremost of the city. Mr. Atterbury was one of the incorporators of the C., C. & N. Y. S. L. R. R and continued as its president till its consolidation with the Pennsylvania railroad. He is a director of the Mechanics’ National Bank, Western Insurance company, and Monongahela Bridge company, and is ready with means and influence to foster any enterprise that promises to benefit his city.

Thomas B. Atterbury was born in 1831. In 1854 he became a member of the firm of Warwick, Atterbury & Co., which carried on the manufacture of builders’ hardware at the foot of Grant street, and which concern is still continued under the title of Nimick & Brittan Manufacturing company. Mr. Atterbury withdrew in 1860 from this to engage in glass-manufacturing, as above noted. He was the founder of the Iron and Glass Dollar Savings Bank in 1868, of which he has ever since been president. His means have also been invested in several other industries of the city; he is a director of the Monongahela Water company, and of the South Side cemetery. He was several years a member of the Birmingham borough council, and two years chairman of the finance committee in the city council. Both the brothers are solid republicans, and supporters of the Presbyterian Church.