John Emary John Emary John Emary (1810/11- ) was a British tailor and businessman, and the founder of the fashion brand Aquascutum. John Emary was born in Lullingstone, Kent in 1810/11. In 1851, Emary opened a menswear shop in London's Regent Street. Later in the 1850s, he patented a method of producing a water-repellent textile, and founded Aquascutum, using the Latin aqua (water) and scutum (shield). In the 1871 census, he was aged 60, and a "merchant tailor", living in Islington, with his wife Elizabeth, three children (Mary, George M, and Susan Meears), two grandchildren, sister-in-law and one servant. In the late
John Bogart John Bogart John Bogart (February 8, 1836 Albany, New York – April 25, 1920 Manhattan, New York City) was an American civil engineer and politician from New York. He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1888 to 1891. He was the son of John Henry Bogart, a merchant of Albany and New York City and great-grandson of Henry Bogart. He was educated at The Albany Academy and graduated M.A. from Rutgers College in 1853. He spent a summer with the engineer corps of the New York Central Railroad and decided to become an engineer. He began engineering work