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Harwinton
27
19,598
949
I739
Canaan
50
26,754
563
I739
Goshen
35
26,548
683
I739
Kent
50
31,542
1,054
I739
Sharon :
59
38,819
1,703
1740
Cornwall
43
28,000
878
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New Hartford
20
24,075
1,834
1740
Torrington
29
24,531
26,040
1741
Salisbury
50
38,761
2,767
1758
Norfolk
70
29,006
1,298
I771
Winchester
26
22,750
8,673
I779
Barkhamsted
26
25,093
697
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Colebrook
32
20,93I
584
I779
Washington
45
26,959
1,775
1780
Watertown
32
18,753
8,192
1786
Warren
++
17,80I
303
1787
Bethlehem
37
12,698
544
1795
Plymouth
22
13,734
6,070
I796
Roxbury
49
17,525
553
1856
Bridgewater
54
10,201
432
1858
North Canaan .
44
12,480
2,287
1859
Morris
35
10,383
481
1875
'Thomaston
25
8,606
4,188
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The WINSTED HOSIERY COMPANY-Established 1882
The NEW ENGLAND KNITTING COMPANY-Established 1887 WINSTED HOSIERY COMPANY FIRST OFFICERS W. 1 .. GILBERT, President L. W. 'TIFFANY, Secretary and Treasurer W. F. TAYLOR, Agent
PRESENT OFFICERS E. B. GAYLORD, President and Treasurer CHARLES B. VIALL, Secretary R. E. GAYLORD, Vice-President and Assistant Treasurer
THE NEW ENGLAND KNITTING CO. FIRST OFFICERS HENRY GAY, President E. B. GAYLORD, Secretary and Treasurer I. B. TIFFANY, General Manager
PRESENT OFFICERS E. B. GAYLORD, President W. H. PHELPS, Vice-President L. L. CHASE, Secretary and Treasurer 1. C. VALENTINE, General Manager and Assistant Treasurer
LEVERETT W. TIFFANY
EDWARD B. GAYLORD
HE WINSTED
HOSIERY COM- PANY was founded in 1882 by L. W. Tiffany and W. F. Taylor. In 1885 E. B. Gaylord joined the company as sec- retary, and since 1887 has had entire charge of the business, which has now grown to be the second larg- est of its kind in the state. In its incipiency the com- pany carried on its business in a modest three-story structure with but fifty-five employees.
Today the Company remains on the original site, but instead of the one small building there are ten buildings with a total floor space of nearly fifteen times that of the old plant; likewise the number of employees has grown to nearly five hundred.
The Company, under Mr. Gaylord's supervision, has built up a staff of employees in the various departments qualified thoroughly in every detail of the knit underwear and half hose line of man- ufacture. This fact is ap- parent in the tremendous growth of the physical as- pects of the plant, and in the gross business of the Company which is in excess of a million and one-half dollars annually. With a sound policy of manufac- turing only the highest quality of goods pursued throughout more than a half-century the Winsted H OSIERY WINSTED Hosiery Company has be- come one of the great in- COMPANY dustries in northern Con- necticut.
The Present Plant of the Winsted Hosiery Company
HE NEW ENGLAND KNITTING COMPANY, whose products for about half a century have carried the name of Winsted to every section of the United States, was founded in 1887 by L. B. Tiffany and Edward B. Gaylord. These young men, whose prac- tical experience and business foresight had already started the Hosiery Company in its long and suc- cessful career, now turned their attention to the organization of another company for the manufac- ture of men's knit underwear. They began opera- tions with only four sets of carding and spinning machinery installed in a few vacant sheds on the bank of the river.
Today, through the careful management of Mr. Tiffany and Mr. Gaylord, the Company has become one of New England's leading industries. The Com- pany now occupies a large four story plant with aggregate floor space of more than 66,000 feet, employing about 300 people and operating 13 sets of carding and spinning machinery.
The output of this mill finds a market in every section of the United States. While the main offices are in Winsted, the Company maintains spa- cious sample rooms at 346 Broadway, New York, the home of C. C. Valentine & Company.
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QUINNIPIACK PRESS, INC.
Founded 1890
Quinnipiack Press, Inc.
- Quinnipiack Press india
Present Home of the Quinnipiack Press, Inc. Located at the corner of Chapel and James Streets, New Haven, Connecticut
RINTING and the allied arts, the mechan- ical means by which a knowledge of the early 10 struggles of our Connecticut pioneers and the subsequent development of the State has been made permanently available, has had its fair share of interesting history and valuable contribution to the economic and social development of Connecticut.
Since the days of the Greenes of New London, Hart- ford, and New Haven in the eighteenth century Connecti- cut could always boast of capable men that worked until the job was done. The State's first printers were the Greenes, and they came to the Colony when printing was a nearly unknown thing in America except for the import- ed books and broadsides.
Besides its early printers Con- necticut may also remember that Abel Buell of Killingworth was the first man within the colonies to cast type. His first efforts were somewhat crude, but he is the background of the later day Goudy, Rogers and the others that make America pre-eminent in the art today. In the mechanical division of the business we find some of the first power presses being made at Derby and New London -- as well as the first color presses.
Carrying on this tradition of service to the State is the Quinnipiack Press, Inc., of New Haven, which was founded in November, 1890, by Clarence H. Ryder, a master printer of that city. In its early years the business was known as "Clarence H. Ryder, Printer", and was located in a single room of the old Connecticut Savings Bank Building at the corner of Church and Center Streets.
After that date Mr. Ryder moved his business three times to provide larger and more modern quarters; he [282]>
firs: removed to the Blair Building (now the "Western Union Building") on Orange Street, then to Center Street between Church and Temple, and finally to the present location on the northwest corner of Chapel and James Streets. In this last removal Mr. Ryder purchased the land and constructed his own building to meet the grow- ing demands of his business.
Mr. Ryder retired from business in 1927, and the firm was reorganized under the name of the Quinnipiack Press, Inc. The two sons of Mr. Ryder, Harold M. and F. Lawrence, who had been associated with their father since 1903 and 1900 respectively, remained with the new organi- zation. Clarence H. Ryder, the founder, died in New Hampshire in 1928.
Shortly after the reorganization, the Quinnipiack Press, Inc., purchased the vacant lot to the west of their estah- lishment and erected a one-story building there to house the bindery, which had outgrown its older quarters. This was the last change in quarters for the firm, but from year to year they have installed new machinery and equip- ment that the service to their customers might always be of the best.
The present officers of the corporation, who have held their positions practically since the date of Mr. Ryder's retirement are: Henry W. Farnam, Jr., President and Treasurer; Harold M. Ryder, Vice-President and General Manager, and F .. Lawrence Ryder, Secretary.
Today the Quinnipiack Press, Inc., continues the tradi- tion established by the founder in his first years in business. Through its progressiveness the firm remains equipped to do all types of printing and binding.
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INDEX
174
Aetna Insurance Company
55
Malleable Iron Fittings Company 215
American Brass Company
Mallory Hat Company 257
American Fastener Company
160
Mechanics Savings Bank
78
Avon Old Farms
Middlesex Mutual Assurance Company
270
Bates, C. J. & Son
142
National Fire Insurance Company 84
200
Bridgeport Gas Light Company
194
New Haven Register 204
81
Bristol Company
186
174
Bristol Press
Ney, J. M.
262
Norwich Bulletin
263
Capewell Horsenail Company
145
Patent Button Company
234
Colt Patent Firearms Company
276
Phoenix Fire Insurance Company
59
Comstock, Cheney & Company
178
Phoenix State Bank
233
Connecticut Light & Power Company
17
Pond's Extract Company
252
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
5 I
Connecticut River Banking Company
127
Postma
144
Cooley & Company
156
Cushman Chuck Company
Rossia Insurance Company
217
Saint Margaret's School
250
Schick Dry Shaver Company
226
Scovill Manufacturing Company
208
Second National Bank of New Haven
82
Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank
182
Farmington Savings Bank
240
Somers Manufacturing Company
29
First National Bank of Hartford
166
Flint-Bruce Company
Stamford Gas and Electric Company
40
Suffield Savings Bank 185
Gray Telephone Pay Station Company 31
Thames Bank and Trust Company
63
Hart Manufacturing Company
176
Hart Seed Company
136
Hartford Connecticut Trust Company
76
United Aircraft Corporation
38
Hartford Courant 36
Hartford Electric Light Company
43
Hartford Fire Insurance Company
113
191
Wallace Barnes Company
232
Waterbury Button Company
246
Waterbury Clock Company
172
Willard Company
264
Hartford Times
Windham County National Bank
281
47
Johnson, C. T.
Aetna Life Insurance Company
222
236
Mariners Savings Bank 261
134
Arrow-Hart & Hegeman Electric Co.
184
Middletown Savings Bank
274
Bradley, Edward M. & Co., Inc.
42
New Haven Journal-Courier
Bristol Brass Corporation
238
New London County Mutual Assurance Company
272
Brooks, W. S. & Son
Norwich Savings Bank
Comstock, Ferre & Company
Connecticut General Life Insurance Company
Platt Bros. & Company
278
Postage Meter Company
170
143
Putnam & Company
86
Dime Savings Bank ..
171
Donchian Rug Company
162
Ensign-Bickford Company
268
Seymour Manufacturing Company
123
Farrel-Birmingham Company
131
Southern New England Telephone Company
260
153
Travelers Insurance Company
Union Bank and Trust Company 258
25
Hartford County Mutual Fire Insurance Company
98
United Illuminating Company
Veeder-Root, Inc. . 158
Hartford National Bank
174
Hartford School of Music
Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance
71
Company
103
Ingraham, E. Company 188 Winsted Hosiery Company
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140
Security Insurance Company
243
Society for Savings 230
119
154
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