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Three Noble Sons Patriarch Frank’s future foundation for building was laid with solid bricks, in still another diversification of the original company. While still young men working at their original company Francis Brothers Inc. in the 1940s and 50s, brothers Everett, Louis and Joseph began a house building business with a brick Crete machine. “They created their own bricks and were the first in the area to build houses with bricks. The company grew. When my grandfather bought the land, it developed into house building after realty selling,” added Christopher. “They began by developing their own land and eventually built more than 3,000 homes in the area including Bristol, Warren and Portsmouth, R.I. and Fall River, Swansea, Services include excavation, installation of site utilities, septic Somerset, Dighton and Rehoboth, Mass.” systems, demolition work, pool digging and drilling and blastIn 1966, 20 years after Francis Brothers started, ing, to name a few. Everett established a new name, ELJ Inc., with his two brothers Louis and Joe. Everett’s two sons, Kevin and foundation of their crushing business that manufactures and Christopher began working in the family business out of sells stone and recycled materials, called ELJ Materials Inc., high school in the 1980s and have expanded it to include founded and expanded in the mid-1990s. “We sell several types of mulch, sand, screened loam, many other facets of the construction and land development industry. Everett’s wife Theresa also was an intricate part of compost loam and stone to contractors as well as the general public. We do all types of site and utility work and plow ELJ Inc. has received words of praise after the jobs the family business starting in 1959. snow for the state of Rhode Island. We have diversified the While maintaining the golf course, the new generation have been done, due to the employees and the neat and business so that it is a productive, year-round corporation,” formed a drilling and blasting corporation, ABlast Inc., in clean and precise work that is done, such as this painstaking work being done with old-fashioned hand 1989, as well as operating Francis Realty which handles 90- said Christopher. Those year-round services include excavation, installation shovels. plus rental units. Even further diversification came with the of site utilities, septic systems, demolition work, pool digging, drilling and blasting, residential and commercial subConstruction Equipment Guide Northeast For advertising rates: Contact Edwin M. McKeon Jr. divisions and draining systems (infiltrations, infrastructure), Edition (ISSN 1081-7034) is published bi-weekly by Construction Equipment Guide hydro-seeding, portable crushing and hydraulic hammering. 215/885-2900 Ltd. Advertising and Editorial Offices are Founder, Publisher & CEO Edwin M. McKeon Sr. “My wife Patricia joined ELJ Inc. in 1990 and manages located at 470 Maryland Dr., Toll Free 800/523-2200 Northeast Publisher Edwin M. McKeon Jr. the office and financial duties,” said Christopher. “My son Ft. Washington, PA 19034. Toll Free Fax 215/885-2910 Editor In Chief Craig Mongeau 800/523-2200 or Fax 215/885-2910. Casey, who is 14, has taken a keen interest in the business Annual Subscription Rate $65.00. Call for Associate Editor Christine Reckner e-mail tmckeon@cegltd.com and would like to take over some day after college. He Canadian and foreign rates. Editorial Consultant Pete Sigmund already operates a six-yard loader, excavators and backhoes Periodicals postage paid at Ft. Washington, Production Mgr. John Pinkerton and farm tractors. He works on Saturdays and all school PA and at additional mailing offices. Controller Tom Weinmann POSTMASTER: Send address changes to vacations. His twin brother Christopher also is interested, but Contact Kent Hogeboom Circulation Mgr. Rolf Krog Construction Equipment Guide Northeast focuses on sports more at this point in his life.” Asst. Circulation Mgr. Cathy Printz •New York •New England Edition, 470 Maryland Dr, Ft. Washington, Beyond this new fourth generation of the family in operPA 19034. 315/823-7668 ation, the company has maintained an average of 15 to 20 Main office 470 Maryland Drive Contents Copyrighted ©2013, by Toll Free 800/988-1203 employees each year, seasonally, for 66 years. Construction Equipment Guide, which is a Fort Washington, PA 19034 Registered Trademark, registered in the U.S. Through the last decade, two employees have been outFax 315/823-4136 Patent Office. Registration number 215/885-2900 standing in their work: Danny Cheatom, a foreman who has 0957323. All rights reserved, nothing may e-mail khogeboom@cegltd.com been with ELJ Inc. for more than 10 years and Fred Hipolito, Toll Free 800/523-2200 be reprinted or reproduced(including framing) in whole or part without written the company’s mechanic/foreman who has been with the Fax 215/885-2910 permission from the publisher. All editorial company for 10 years. material, photographs, drawings, letters, Web site www.constructionequipmentguide.com “Both are loyal and excellent employees,” said and other material will be treated as unconditionally assigned for publication Christopher. Editorial e-mail editorial@cegltd.com and copyright purposes and are subject to Advertising e-mail production@cegltd.com Construction Equipment Guide's unrestricted Many Familiar Sites right to edit and comment editorially. Contributor articles do not necessarily reflect ELJ Inc. has worked on site, excavating and building, the policy or opinions of this publication. some of the more familiar buildings in the region, including: Call or write for advertising rates, publicaWalgreens, Bristol, R.I.; People’s Credit Union, Bristol, R.I.; tion schedule and media kit. The Island Self-Storage, Portsmouth, R.I.; and work around Construction Equipment Guide is not responRaytheon Corporation, Portsmouth, R.I. sible for clerical or printer's errors, every care is taken to avoid mistakes. The company also has been subcontracted for many Photographs of equipment used in adverbuilders, including: several demolitions for Butera Building tisements are not necessarily actual photoand Design in Barrington, R.I.; several site jobs for Andrew graphs of the specific machine. Similar photographs are used occasionally and every Tiplady Builders of Barrington; building the road named effort is taken to depict the actual equipCasey Drive, Bristol, for Jackson and Pacheco Builders; ment advertised. The right is reserved to
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