 Read was the presiding head during the 100th year celebration held at the New York Biltmore Hotel in 1955 as covered by The New Yorker.In 1946, industrialist Maj. General John W. Morgan
(winner of the Croix de Guerre in World War I and also president of the Cox Gelatin Company) became board chairman of the Charles P. Rogers & Co., which had temporarily moved its manufacturing to Yonkers, New York.He continued in that capacity until his death at the age of 69.