Receiver was appointed for the Eagle Pottery Company

[Newspaper]

Publication: The Trenton Evening Times

Trenton, NJ, United States
p. 5, col. 1


RECEIVER WALKER


Counselor Edwin Robert Walker

Was Today Named to Close

Eagle Pottery Affairs.


WAS ONCE A MONEY MAKER


In the Halcyon Days of the Pottery

Business the Eagle Was a Veritable

Mint — Mountford and Burroughs

Owned It — Mr. Walker Must

Furnish $30,000 Bonds.

 

Counsellor Edwin Robert Walker was this morning appointed receiver of the Eagle Pottery Company by Vice Chancellor Reed. Besides the real estate, which is mortgaged, the assets consist of about $2,500 of accounts to be collected, and some $20,000 or $25,000 of goods to be sold, and perhaps some little manufacturing will have to be done to work up the raw material on hand.

Mr. Walker is required to give bond in the sum of $30,000 before entering upon the discharge of his duties.

It will be remembered that this is the old Burroughs and Mountfoud pottery, which passed through the hands of a receiver some years ago.

In the halcyon of the pottery business of Trenton, this plant was a great money maker in the hands of the veteran potter, Elijah Mountford, and his genial partner, Joseph Burroughs.

A receiver in this instance was applied for some three weeks ago by John B. Reilly, of Philadelphia, the president of the company, through John H. Backes, of this city.

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Keywords:Eagle Pottery Company
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Researcher:Elton Gish
Date completed:January 18, 2007 by: Elton Gish;