History of Bergen and Passaic counties, New Jersey: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men (Public domain ed.). ^ a b c The Jewelers' circular (Public domain ed.).The Eagle and Brooklyn (Public domain ed.). ^ a b c d Howard, Henry Ward Beecher Jervis, Arthur N.National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc. ^ National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (2001).Who's who in finance and banking (Public domain ed.). He died at his summer home in Sag Harbor, Long Island. Fahys also lived in New York City on Park Avenue. Morris also designed Fahys' Long Island country house. Fahys' Clinton Hill, Brooklyn residences were designed in 18 by Benjamin Wistar Morris, III. įahys and Cook purchased one thousand acres of land in North Haven, a suburb of Sag Harbor, with two miles of frontage on Peconic Bay. Fahys's daughter, Lena Marianne, married Cook in 1883. Their son, George Ernest Fahys, who became a partner in the Fahys Co., was born in West Hoboken in 1864. In 1856, he married a lady who was a native of Sag Harbor. He was director of the Alvin Manufacturing Co., Brooklyn Watch Case Co., Sea View Elevated Railroad Co., and Victoria Fire Insurance Co. He was a trustee of the Homoeopathic Hospital, the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, the Union League, and the Downtown Association. įahys was the founder and first president of the Jewelers' Board of Trade, and the first president of the Watchcase Manufacturers' Association. for the manufacture of solid gold cases and retained a dominant interest in this for many years though he devoted his time principally to his own factory at Sag Harbor. Parsons and Henry Hays, he founded the Brooklyn Watch Case Co. Fahys' son-in-law, Henry Francis Cook, who was president of the Montauk Steamboat Company, became a partner of Fays & Co. He was president of Joseph Fahys & Co., located in the Fahys Building, on 54 Maiden Lane, New York City the company was established in 1857.
For many years he made a specialty of silver watch cases. In 1876, he bought the share of the Fortenbach Brothers and moved the Carlstadt plant to Sag Harbor, Long Island. When both factories were well under way, Fahys sold his New York store to Ward & Jennings, two of his employees, and gave his undivided attention to his manufacturing interests.
In 1867, Fahys located a similar factory in Brooklyn in which he associated with Wheeler, Parsons & Hayes, and the joint enterprise was known as the Brooklyn Watch Case Company. In 1861, he formed a connection with Fortenbach Brothers (John, Jacob, and Joseph), which resulted in the building at Carlstadt, one of the first establishments in America which manufactured watch cases on an extensive scale for five years, business was profitable. He continued it under his own name and moved the factory to the fourth floor of 75 Nassau Street, New York City before later moving the plant to Carlstadt, New Jersey. Career įahys bought out the Savoye business on June 1, 1857. He remained in Savoye's employ for five years, and soon after attaining his majority, began what an independent career. Savage), of West Hoboken, New Jersey, one of the two first makers of watch cases in the United States. He apprenticed himself to Ulysses Savoye (or Ulyses S. In company with his mother, he came to New York in March 1848. His father was a contractor and both his father and brother died when Fahys was young. He was the son of Joseph and Marianne Moulleseaux Fahys.