Excerpt from The Military Memoirs of Captain Henry Cribben of the 140th New York Volunteers

Henry Cribben was born on the Isle of Man, December 18, 1834. When he was very young his parents died, and he was brought to America by relatives who settled at Rochester, N. Y. There he was raised. As soon as he was old enough to work he left the public school and began to learn the iron molder's trade, which he mastered and followed continuously (except while he was in the Federal army in the Rebellion) until 1868, when he organized the Co-operative Foundry Company of Rochester, N. Y., of which corporation he was the president many years. In 1872 he removed to Chicago, where he began the business which is now conducted by Cribben & Sexton Company.

As a journeyman molder Mr. Cribben occupied a prominent place in the councils of the International Molders' Union of North America. He understood thoroughly the rights, the aspirations and the hardships of labor; and when he himself became a stove manufacturer this knowledge was of inestimable value as it enabled him to reconcile differences between the stove manufacturers on the one hand and the workmen on the other. Through his earnest advocacy an organization of the stove manufacturers was effected in June, 1886, and an agreement was consummated in 1891 between this organization and the International Molders' Union by which representatives of each body were to meet in an annual conference for the purpose of harmoniously adjusting all matters affecting their joint interests.

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