Adolph Goetting
{{Short description|German chemist and businessman}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Adolph Goetting
| image = Adolph H. Goetting.jpg
| image_size = 170
| caption = Adolph Goetting, Perfumer.
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1851|05|28}}
| birth_place = Germany
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1929|10|01|1851|05|28}}
| death_place = Suffern, New York, U.S.
| other_names =
| known_for = Goetting & Company
| occupation = Perfumer, Chemist
| alma_mater =
}}
Adolph Goetting (May 28, 1851 – October 1, 1929) was a German chemist who founded the perfume company "Goetting & Co." The company was later purchased in 1896 by David H. McConnell, where it became part of the California Perfume Company, now called Avon Products.
Career
File:ADH Goetting McConnell.jpg, 1914]]
File:Goetting Trade Card.jpg, ca. 1880.]]
Adolph Goetting went into the perfumery business with his father in 1873 and later founded the A. Goetting & Company in 1871 at 264 Spring Street, New York.{{Cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_cosmetics-toiletries_1929-11_24_9/page/554/mode/2up?q=%22Adolph+Goetting%22 |title=The American Perfumer and Essential Oil Review 1929-11: Vol 24 Iss 9|work= American Can Company|place=|date=1929|page=554|access-date=2021-07-06}} He was in business for 25 years, from 1871 until 1896. The Goetting name appeared on placards, calendars, trade cards, etc. On February 10, 1887, Goetting filed a patent application for a perfume Knapsack bottle with the United States Patent and Trademark Office.{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hNE1AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Adolph%20Goetting |title=The Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, Vol. 38, No. 13 |work= United States Patent Office|date=1887-03-29 |access-date=2021-07-05 }} In his patent specification, Goetting described the bottle's design with a screw cap located in the center top of the sack with a chain handle.{{cite book|last=Revi|first= Albert Christian |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=bbRNAAAAMAAJ&q=Goetting |title=American Pressed Glass and Figure Bottles |work= United States Patent Office|date=1964 |publisher= Nelson |isbn= 9780840743077 |access-date=2021-07-05 }}
In 1896, David H. McConnell asked perfumer Goetting to join the California Perfume Company as his chief chemist and to lead the existing McConnell product line. He used Goetting & Co., as a trade name that was associated with specific Goetting & Co. fragrances, e.g. Alpine Lilac, Carnation Pink, Jockey Club, etc.{{cite web |url=https://www.californiaperfumecompany.com/company/cal_goetting_history.html |title=Goetting & Co., New York |website= www.californiaperfumecompany.com |access-date=2021-07-05 }}{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/internationaldir0019unse/page/26/mode/2up?q=Goetting |title= International directory of company histories. Vol. 19 |work= St. James Press|date=1898 |access-date=2021-07-05 }}{{cite book|last= Klepacki |first= Laura |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZUPceXxVP4C&dq=%22Adolph+Goetting%22+perfumer&pg=PT20 |title= Avon: Building The World's Premier Company For Women |work= St. James Press|date= 2010 |publisher= John Wiley & Sons |isbn= 9781118040386 |access-date=2021-07-05 }} Goetting mixed the oils and alcohol to assemble the perfume. Perfumes were first manufactured, packaged and shipped from the office on 126 Chambers Street in New York City.{{cite web |url=https://www.californiaperfumecompany.com/company/cal_goetting_history.html |title=Trade names of perfumes and toilet articles |work= The Manufacturing Perfumers' Association |date=1908|access-date=2021-07-05 }} In 1897 a laboratory was built in Suffern, New York.{{cite web |title=Great Oak
|url=https://digital.hagley.org/CPCHist_20101119_1976?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=fa27adaccb49ac901e93&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0#page/10/mode/2up |date=1976|website= Hagley Digital Archives|publisher=Avon Products, Inc.
|access-date=2020-06-28}} At the laboratory, Goetting began to make other items such as talcum powder, sachet powders, and toilet waters.
On March 1, 1898, Goetting & Co., of New York City, was incorporated with the state of Albany, New York. The capital was $25,00 and was managed by the directors: Adolph Goetting, E. C. Goetting and A. P. Mahn.{{cite journal|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015080402426&view=1up&seq=521&size=125&q1=Adolph%20Goetting |title=The Pharmaceutical era.|volume=v.19 |journal=American Druggist Publishing Co. |date=1898-03-10|page=373|access-date=2021-07-07}}
From 1903 through 1908, Goetting & Company was represented by A. D. Henderson and McConnell at the annual Perfumers' Association Conventions held in New York City.{{cite journal|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011428334&view=1up&seq=234&q1=Henderson|title=American Druggist Pharmaceutical Record|volume=48 |journal=American Druggist Publishing Co. |date=1906|access-date=2021-07-06}}
McConnell ran the Goetting & Company perfume advertisements in some of the larger newspapers in the country. The July 3, 1907, Printers’ Ink Journal for Advertisers, ran a series of 10, 5-inch double column ads for Goetting & Company perfumes.{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o6Y9AQAAMAAJ&q=%22Goetting%20%26%20Company |title=Marketing Communications Volume 61|work=Printers' Ink|date=1907|page=32|access-date=2021-07-05}}
McConnell continued the manufacture and distribution of these products under the Goetting label through 1909. On June 16, 1909, McConnell and Henderson signed an agreement of incorporation for the California Perfume Company in the state of New Jersey. Goetting & Company then became part of the California Perfume Company.{{cite web
|url=https://digital.hagley.org/islandora/object/islandora:2226135#page/1/mode/2up
|title= Agreement of Incorporation for California Perfume Company|website= Hagley Digital Archives|date=1909|access-date=2012-12-17}}
In 1926, the factory in Suffern had 150 men and woman working in the laboratory. By this time Goetting had been in the business for over 50 years.{{cite web |url=https://digital.hagley.org/CPCHistory_20101118_1926?solr_nav%5Bid%5D=7033d7696905e92db5eb&solr_nav%5Bpage%5D=0&solr_nav%5Boffset%5D=0#page/2/mode/2up |title=A Short CPC History |date= 1926 |website= digital.hagley.org |page=2 |access-date=2021-07-05}}
Goetting retired in 1926, and moved to Suffern, New York where he remained active. He took a great interest in Scouting and became a Scout Master of Troup 1.
Death
On October 1, 1929, Goetting died at his home in Suffern, New York at age 78.{{Cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_cosmetics-toiletries_1929-10_24_8/mode/2up?q=%22Goetting%22|title=The American Perfumer and Essential Oil Review 1929-10: Vol 24 Iss 8|work= American Can Company|place=|date=1929|page=492|access-date=2021-07-06}}
See also
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References
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External links
- [https://www.californiaperfumecompany.com/company/cal_goetting_history.html Goetting & Co., New York] at californiaperfumecompany.com
- [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1119700 Avon's bottles: By any other name] by Dee Schneider
- [https://perfumebottles.org Perfume Bottle Quarterly, Vol. 21, Number 1 (Fall 2008)], Helen Farnsworth
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