Richard V. Mattison

Manufacturing chemist; born in Solebury, Bucks County, Pa., Nov. 17, 1851; son of Joseph Jones Mattison and Mahala (van Zeelust) Mattison. He attended country school, Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and the University of Pennsylvania Medical Department, receiving the degree of M.D. He married in Hightstown, N.J., Nov. 4, 1873, Esther Dafter of Cranbury. N.J., and they have had three children: Richard V. Mattison, Jr., born in 1880: Royal Mattison, born in 1892, and Esther V. Mattison, who died at the age of four. He has for thirty-four years been most successfully engaged as a manufacturing chemist. He erected the well known Church of the Beautiful Windows, Trinity Memorial Protestant Episcopal Church, at Ambler, Pa., and presented it to the Diocese of Pennsylvania. The church is said to have the most harmonious collection of church windows in the United States. He is president of the First National Bank of Ambler, of the Philadelphia Drug Exchange, vice-president of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, president of the Keasbey and Mattison Company, Magnesia Covering Company, Asbestos Shingle, Slate and Sheathing Company, The Bell Asbestos Mines, Thetford, P.Q., Canada, the Asbestos Company, Asbestos Manufacturing Company, the Ambler Electric Light Company, The Ambler Spring Water Company, The Upper Dublin Water Company. He is a Republican in politics, and an Episcopalian in religion. Dr. Mattison is a member of various scientific societies, and of the Union League Club. He has a summer home, "Bushy Park," at Newport, R.I., and his "Lindenwold" estate, at Ambler, is one of the most beautiful in Pennsylvania. Address: Ambler, Montgomery County, Pa.

Source: John W. Leonard. Who's Who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, 2nd ed. New York: L.R. Hamersly & Co., 1908, pp. 472-473.

Submitted by Nancy.