Official of a Newark Cutlery Concern Dies–Served U.S. Agencies in World War II

SHORT HILLS; N.J., Sept. 16–Norman Frederick Wiss, an industrialist, died last night at his summer home in Bay Head. He was 58 years old.

Mr. Wiss was executive vice president, treasurer and a director of J. Wiss & Sons, Newark cutlery manufacturers. He also was a secretary and a director of Wiss Sons, Inc., Newark jewelers.

Born in Newark, Mr. Wiss was graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1917. Soon afterward he joined the firm, founded in 1848 by his grandfather, Jacob Wiss, a Swiss cutler and gunsmith.

Mr. Wiss also held directorships in the Bola-Inca Mining Company, with gold mining interests in South America, and the West Company of Philadelphia, manufacturers of pharmaceutical rubber caps. He formerly was a director of the United States Trust Company of Newark, which was merged several years ago with the National State Bank.

Mr. Wiss was a former vice president, trustee and director of the New Jersey Manufacturers Association and a former director of the North Jersey Employers Association and the National Association of Shears, Scissors and Manicure Implement Manufacturers.

During World War I, he served in France as a lieutenant. In World War II, Mr. Wiss was a member of the National Labor Relations Board, the War Production Board, the Industrial Advisory Board and the Millburn-Short Hills Draft Board.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Mildred Wiss; three sons, Norman F., Jr., Kenneth B. and Frederick D.; his mother, Mrs. Charlotte Wiss; a brother, J. Robert Wiss; a sister, Mrs. W. Denton Taylor, and five grandchildren.

Published: September 17, 1954