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19-1004: Heckscher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: August Heckscher (1848–1941), German American philanthropist Charles Heckscher , American academic and management theorist Eli Heckscher (1879–1952), Swedish economist Ferdinand Heckscher (1806–1891), German actor Gunnar Heckscher (1909–1987), Swedish politician and son of Eli Heckscher Gustave Maurice Heckscher (1884–1967), American pioneer aviator Morrison Heckscher (born 1940), American art historian and curator Sten Heckscher , Swedish politician and grandson of Eli Heckscher William S. Heckscher (1904–1999), German art historian Locations [ edit ] The Heckscher Foundation for Children Heckscher State Parkway in western Town of Islip, Suffolk County, New York Heckscher State Park in East Islip, New York Heckscher Park (Huntington, New York) ,

38-494: A subsidiary of Gulf+Western until 1981, when a management-led buyout acquired it under the name of Horsehead Industries. The New Jersey Zinc Company remained a subsidiary of Horsehead Industries until 1987, when Horsehead merged it with St. Joe Minerals a Missouri lead and zinc producer to form Zinc Corporation of America. The company suffered from worldwide record low prices for zinc in the early 2000s and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2002. Sun Capital Partners purchased

57-612: A local park on the National Register of Historic Places in Huntington, New York Heckscher Museum of Art within the aforementioned park in Huntington, New York Heckscher Playground in New York, New York See also [ edit ] Heckscher–Ohlin theorem Heckscher–Ohlin model Hechsher Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

76-726: A multimillionaire and a philanthropist. He started The Heckscher Foundation for Children and created playgrounds in lower Manhattan and in Central Park . Heckscher Playground , Central Park's largest playground, is named in his honor. Heckscher also created Heckscher Park in the town of Huntington and created the Heckscher Museum of Art . The State of New York purchased nearly 1,500 acres in East Islip with money donated by Heckscher to create Heckscher State Park , made famous for hosting summer concerts for 35 years of

95-631: A partnership with his cousin under the name of Richard Heckscher & Company . The firm was eventually sold to the Reading Railroad . Heckscher then turned to zinc mining and organized the Zinc and Iron Company , becoming vice-president and general manager. In 1897, it was consolidated with other zinc and iron companies into the New Jersey Zinc Company with Heckscher serving as the general manager. Heckscher eventually became

114-635: A private company owned by Greywolf Capital Management, and renamed "American Zinc Recycling". As of August 2018, American Zinc Recycling operates six facilities: a state-of-the-art solvent-extraction and electrowinning plant in Mooresboro, NC ; a zinc powder facility in Palmerton, Pennsylvania ; and four recycling facilities located in Barnwell, South Carolina , Calumet, Illinois , Rockwood, Tennessee , and Palmerton, Pennsylvania . On April 28, 2019,

133-559: A refinery column and the workers suffocated due to smoke inhalation. The 1954 film Salt of the Earth was based on the 1951 strike against New Jersey Zinc Company’s Empire Zinc mine in Bayard, New Mexico . In February 2016, Horsehead Corporation filed for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. Court of Bankruptcy in Delaware. Subsequent to the bankruptcy filing many shareholders wrote into

152-494: A subsidiary of that conglomerate . The passage of environmental protection laws in the 1970s turned New Jersey Zinc's legacy of environmental pollution into a liability. In 1981, former officials of Gulf and Western's Natural Resources Division led a buyout of New Jersey Zinc and made it a subsidiary of Horsehead Industries, Inc, a reference to the company's logo adopted in 1852. Saddled with environmental cleanup liabilities, and struggling with cash flow due to record low prices in

171-644: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages August Heckscher Heckscher was born in Hamburg , Germany. He was the son of Johann Gustav Heckscher (1797–1865) and Marie Antoinette Bräutigam. In 1867, Heckscher immigrated to the United States. He initially worked in his cousin Richard Heckscher's coal mining operation as a laborer, studying English at night. Several years later he formed

190-712: The New York Philharmonic . In 1881, he married Anna P. Atkins (1859–1924). Together, they were the parents of: In 1930, he married Virginia Henry Curtiss ( c.  1885 – 1941) at Croton-on-Hudson . She was the widow of Edwin Burr Curtiss , of A. G. Spalding Bros. and was 27 years younger than Heckscher. August Heckscher died on April 26, 1941, in Mountain Lake, Florida and left his widow $ 10,000 and all his real estate . She died on July 11, 1941. No legatee could be found that

209-585: The company's assets in 2003 for $ 73.6 million and renamed it Horsehead Corporation which currently produces zinc products processed from recycling and steelmaking waste. Horsehead filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Feb 2, 2016. The company had its origins in northwestern New Jersey in 1848 when two companies were created to exploit the iron and zinc deposits at Franklin and Sterling Hill in Sussex County, New Jersey . The Sussex Zinc and Copper Mining and Manufacturing Corporation

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228-630: The court alleging foul play by Greywolf and other members of the ad-hoc group of noteholders. On May 2, in the US Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, Judge Sontchi entered an order for the formation of an official committee of equity holders, declaring, "Something Smells fishy to the court". Shareholders in Horsehead included Mohnish Pabrai , Matthew Peterson, Phil Town and Guy Spier Horsehead emerged from bankruptcy in September 2016 as

247-622: The early 2000s, Horsehead Industries filed for bankruptcy in 2002. At its peak, the company owned and operated smelters and mines across the United States and Canada. The sites of the smelters at De Pue, Illinois and Palmerton, Pennsylvania , and the Eagle Mine in Eagle County, Colorado are listed as EPA Superfund sites. On July 22, 2010, two Horsehead workers were killed at a plant in Monaca, Pennsylvania . An explosion occurred in

266-680: The nature of the ores at Franklin and Sterling Hill, mining companies in the district were in constant litigation. From 1868 to 1880, the New Jersey Zinc Company fought a legal battle with Moses Taylor 's Franklin Iron Company, a dispute that was finally resolved in 1880 by merging the two companies into the New Jersey Zinc and Iron Company. In 1897, the remaining Franklin District companies were consolidated under

285-416: The title Heckscher . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heckscher&oldid=1210955768 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

304-415: The umbrella of the New Jersey Zinc Company, led by Stephen S. Palmer and August Heckscher as general manager. The Palmer family controlled the company for 46 years until the death of Stephen's son Edgar in 1943, when the estate of Edgar Palmer was forced to sell its controlling interest in order to pay inheritance taxes. In 1966, the company agreed to merge with Gulf and Western Industries and become

323-488: Was an American producer of zinc and related materials based in Pittsburgh . The operations of the historic company are currently conducted as American Zinc Recycling. The New Jersey Zinc Company was for many years the largest producer of zinc and zinc products in the United States. The company thrived in the period from 1897 to 1966, at which time it merged with Gulf and Western Industries . It continued to operate as

342-616: Was incorporated in 1848 for the purpose of mining zinc, and the New Jersey Exploration and Mining Company was incorporated in 1849 for the purpose of mining iron. The founding partners were the same for both companies, and in 1852 the companies merged to form the New Jersey Zinc Corporation. The company adopted the horsehead, one of the state symbols of New Jersey, as its logo. Because of ambiguous deeds, overlapping claims, and misunderstanding over

361-559: Was named in her will and the probate court declared an earlier copy of the will as valid. His grandson August Heckscher II (1913–1997), served as President John F. Kennedy 's Special Consultant on the Arts, the first White House cultural adviser, 1962–1963, as well New York City Mayor John Lindsay 's Parks Commissioner, 1967, amongst other highlights in a wide-ranging career and life. New Jersey Zinc Company Horsehead Holding Corporation , formerly The New Jersey Zinc Company ,

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