[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Brown then formed a stock company to operate the plow works, which was called the Peekskill Plow Company. About 1870 the company moved their establishment to Newark, N. J„ inflict-ing thereby a severe blow to Peekskill's prosperity. In 1878, having been burned out at Newark, they established their works at Yonkers, where, under the name of the New York Plow Company, they do an extensive business at present. The Centre Dock Foundky was established in 1835 on the Centre Dock by Judson H. Gilbert, Alex-ander Fairley, and Dr. James Fountain, under the firm name of Gilbert, Fairley & Co. For many years it was operated by David L. Seymour & Sons, 404 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. who, under the name of the Peekskill Manufacturing Company, carried on the manufacture of sugar-mills and brick machinery, and executed general jobbing work. A short time after Mr. Seymour's death, which occurred about 1880, the concern passed into the possession of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, and in 1884 was being operated to a limited extent by S. Fletcher Allen. A wire works, established at Annsville in the year 1835, by Stoutenburgh, Marroll & Co., under the superintendent'}' of Thomas Wallace, who died not many years ago, the owner of an extensive wire mill at Ansonia, Conn., was an industry which assumed great importance. In 1878 the mills became the property of R. H. Wolff & Co., of 93 John Street, New York, who enlarged them very considerably.