Amid poverty and ridicule

sometimes in prison for debt, he patiently pursued the - experiments which, after he had obtained a fresh idea from his a istant Hayward’s use of oe ended, in 1844, in the i ue of his patent for vulcanized rubber. This proce he afterward perfected, discovering new uses to which his product could be applied, till it required 60 patents to secure his inventions. He received medals at London (1851) and Paris (1855), as well as the cro of the inten of Honor; though kept in continual litigation and consequent Veco by shamele infringements of his rights, he yet lived to see his material applied to Goorkhas; nearly 500-uses, and to give employment, in the United States, Lo France, and Germany, to 60, pe sons. He died in New York city, July 1, 1860.