Rash's Surname Index
Notes for William Supplee LLOYD
WILLIAM SUPPLEE LLOYD, manufacturer and leading specialist in editions of Robinson Crusoe, died at his home in Germantown, May 5, 1920. The eldest son of William Jones Lloyd, of the Lloyd-Supplee-
Walton hardware firm, by his wife Anne Elizabeth Custer, he was born at La Crosse, Wisconsin, February 12, 1860, and was descended from Robert Lloyd and his wife Lowry Jones, Welsh settlers in Pennsylvania as early as 1683. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Class of '82, Mr. Lloyd succeeded as a textile manufacturer at a comparatively early age and was the proprietor of the Stratford Knitting Mills, at Wayne Junction, which he operated for more than quarter of a century. He was, however, determined not to allow business to absorb him. He worked gladly for the material things of life that he might enjoy those of the spirit and help others, and he enjoyed himself best, when he saw that others about him enjoyed it too. How much he did to stimulate interest in the Navy during drab years, how strenuously he labored for the Nation during the late war, how every civic cause had his ear, all this and much more is of general local knowledge, but he was known to the UteraU the
world over as the man who loved Robinson Crusoe. His literary tastes were broad and it was solely by accident that he became a De Foe specalist, but once aroused he combed the world for editions in every Ianguage. He is credited with possessing the most comprehensive collection of editions of Robinson Crusoe in the world, that in the British Museum possibly excepted, amounting to more than four hundred volumes, including seventy-five undated English editions, one hundred and sixty- one dated English editions, fourteen children's editions, eight in the French language, six in German, two in Italian and thirty-five in Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Irish, Japanese, Latin, Mexican, Yiddish and other
languages, and one in shorthand. Among Mr. Lloyd's "Crusoes" are not only copies of the two issues of the first edition, April, 1719, but of each of the seventy-eight issues between 1719 and 1819; and of the "Crusoes" printed since then his list is large. At the time of his decease he was a vestryman of St. Peter's Church, Germantown, and president of the Men's Club and of the Literary Club of that Parish; one of the Council of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania; a director of The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania; the Naval History Society, and the Navy League of the United States; chairman of the Navy Commiittee of the Young Men's Christian Association, and a member of the Union League,
Racquet, Philadelphia Cricket and Germantown Cricket clubs of Philadelphia; the Grolier, and Army and Navy clubs of New York; the Biblio Philo Club of Austin, Texas, and the Philo Biblo Society of Philadelphia. He was also deeply interested in the Pennsylvania Seaman's Friend Society, and the Seaman's Church Institute of Philadelphia. His election to this Society, October 11, 1898, was by right of service of his great-great-grandfather, Hugh Lloyd (1742-1832), member of the Committee of Observation of Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1774-1775; member of the Provincial Conventions of Pennsylvania, 1774, 1776; member of the Provincial Conference of Pennsylvania, held at Carpenter's
Hall, June 18, 1776, and colonel. Third Battalion, Chester County, Pennsylvania Associators. Mr. Lloyd married April 27, 1893, Ida, widow of Thomas J. Mustin and daughter of the late Henry A. Croskey
of Philadelphia, who survives him with two step-sons: Captain Henry Croskey Mustin, U. S. N., and Major John Burton Mustin, U. S. A., both of whom are members of this Society. Natures such as Mr. Lloyd's are rare, and when gone cannot be quickly forgotten. . "A man of generous impulses and winning personality, and a faithful, zealous and efficient worker for God and man, he will be greatly missed in the many spheres of usefulness in which his earnestness and devotion made him an important factor," says one of many testimonials.
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