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W. BRADSHAW LOVATT. This gentleman is numbered among the prominent citizens of Weatherly, where he has been engaged in business for a number of years, displaying a degree of ability and enterprise that has given him a high standing in financial circles. Of the good educational advantages offered him during boyhood and youth he made excellent use, and possesses a mind well stored with useful knowledge and capable of grasping with firmness and with acute perception subjects brought before him for consideration. With this, he has firm principles and courteous manners, and these qualities have been the factors that have secured for him a responsible position in the business world.

In Newark, N. J., W. Bradshaw Lovatt was born October 4, 1856, and in the schools of that city the rudiments of his education were acquired. The information there gained was supplemented by a course in the parochial schools of New York. He began the business of a silk manufacturer in Paterson, N. J., where he remained until 1882. At that time he went to Allentown, Pa., where he was connected with the Adelaide Mills for six years. In 1888 he came to Weatherly, of which place he has since been an influential citizen. In 1888 and 1889 the present mill was operated by Read & Lovatt, but in 1891 a stock company was organized, with the following officers: President, J. C. Read; Vice-President, William Strange; Secretary and Treasurer, J. Walter Lovatt. Of the mill our subject has from the first been superintendent, discharging the many duties of this responsible position with characteristic ability and energy. The mill has a capacity of thirty-two thousand spindles, and five hundred persons are given employment.

As a member of the Republican party Mr. Lovatt takes an active interest in public affairs, giving of his time and influence to the promotion of public-spirited measures. He has held a number of local offices, in all of which he has rendered satisfactory service. At the present time he is filling the position of chief of the fire department. He is always warmly interested in everything pertaining to the industrial growth of Weatherly, and his efforts have advanced its prosperity. He is a man of sterling integrity, whose every-day life bears testimony to the inherent uprightness of his character. He deserves the prosperity that has attended his efforts, as he has labored conscientiously and perseveringly and has exercised sound judgment and due discretion in all his dealings.