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After Stephen Davol, Henry S. Howe, Theophilus Parsons and William S. Whitney have been agents. W. Frank Shove succeeded Bradford Davol as treasurer in 1891. Following Stephen Davol and Horatio Hathaway, Thomas E. Brayton is president.
Early Mills .- Among the stone buildings referred to as having been built in the twenties for the accommodation of increasing new-comers in cotton manufacturing, was that known as the New Pocasset, erected in 1826 on the site of the Quequechan mill. Here came as lessees A. and J. Shove, who sublet the north half to Chase and Luther, both firms manufac- turing cotton into yarn and cloth. In the following year, 1827, another stone mill, now at the west side of the main plant of the Pocasset mill, was known successively as the Massasoit and the Watuppa. Brown and Ives, cotton manufacturers, of Providence, were the first lessees, the mill being divided with a partition at this time. Holder Borden bought out their lease for fifteen years, from January 1, 1831. Here, with the intro- duction of belting instead of the old-fashioned gears, Mr. Borden manu- factured sheetings, shirting and other fabrics.
The old Massasoit mill had its namesake when, in 1843, Holder Bor- den's lease being about to expire, the Massasoit mill on Davol street was built, and the machinery of the old mill transferred thereto. Dr. Nathan Durfee, who had married a sister of Holder Borden, had a large control of this mill later, and the plant became known generally as "the Doctor's Mill." These mills, where print cloths were manufactured, were burned November 2, 1875. While in operation, the company's capital amounted to $120,000, afterwards increased to $200,000. The factory had more than
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14,000 spindles and more than 300 looms. The Massasoit Manufacturing Company in 1914 occupied the site of the burned mill and of that of the Chase, Mason and Durfee mill. The Pocasset street mill, which soon came in control of the Pocasset Company, was for a time controlled by the Wahtahpee mills, Linden Cook, agent.
Yet another of the mills that had their day was the Quequechan, with its six thousand spindles for the manufacture of cotton, its capacity increas- ing up to 12,800 in 1867. This mill had been part of the Robeson Print Works up to 1859. When the print works failed, Andrew Robeson, third, became the manager for the creditors. In 1879 the Quequechan mills was organized, and Mr. Robeson was appointed treasurer; he was succeeded in 1881 by D. H. Dyer. Later the mill was sold.
Among the many changes of these early constructive years was that included in the activity of the Anawan Manufactory. The company was organized in 1825 with old Ironworks interests, but with separate corpora- tion. The plant stood where the Fall River Ironworks No. 7 mill was later erected, near the junction of Anawan and Pocasset streets. The company was organized with a nominal capital of $160,000 in thirty shares, and the factory had close to ten thousand spindles. The agent of the mill, Major Bradford Durfee, superintended its construction. He was succeeded by Foster Stafford and Richard B. Borden until the property was divided in 1880, the company discontinuing operations late in the nineties. The old building was demolished in 1905. Thomas S. Borden and W. Frank Shove were treasurers of the corporation in recent years. Jefferson Borden and John S. Brayton were presidents. The Anawan Mills were incorpor- ated in 1910, with a capital of $50,000. Charles M. Shove was president ; Edward Barker, treasurer; Russell H. Leonard, secretary.
Major Bradford Durfee and Colonel Richard Borden established the Fall River Iron Works Company in 1821, for general ship-building needs. The cash then paid in by stockholders was not over $18,000, those specially interested being Holder Borden, David Anthony, William Valentine, Joseph Butler, Abraham Wilkinson, Isaac Wilkinson. The business was incor- porated as the Fall River Iron Works Company on February 4, 1825, with a capital of $200,000, this being increased in 1845 to $960,000. At the first meeting of the corporation, in October, 1826, Abraham Wilkinson was elected president, Bradford Durfee treasurer and agent, and Holder Borden clerk. Richard Borden succeeded Holder Borden as clerk, May 7, 1827. William Valentine was elected president in May, 1828, and Richard Borden clerk, treasurer and agent, he continuing in that office forty-four years, up to the time of his death, February 24, 1874. The mills were destroyed by fire in 1843 and again in 1859, but they were quickly rebuilt. In 1877 six hundred hands were employed, and the aggregate consumption of iron was thirty-two thousand tons. Jefferson Borden was then president; Robert C. Brown, clerk and treasurer, and the directors were: Jefferson Borden. Holder D. Durfee, John S. Brayton, William B. Durfee and Richard B. Borden. A stone warehouse was built in 1831, and the company began to build steamboats and wharves, and in 1833 they built the first marine rail- way on Mount Hope bay and Taunton river. Among the steamboats built and acquired at this time were the Hancock, the King Philip, the Bradford Durfee, the Metacomet, the Canonicus, the Richard Borden. Philip D.
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Borden was elected treasurer, August 4, 1874, in place of Colonel Richard Borden, deceased, and Robert C. Brown succeeded him in 1875. The inter- ests of the company were divided in 1880, when the Metacomet Mills were formed with a capital of $288,000; the Fall River Machine Company, with capital of $96,000; Fall River Gas Works, with capital of $288,000; Fall River Steamboat Company, with capital of $192,000. M. C. D. Borden purchased the Fall River Iron Works property in 1888, and he erected brick mills in 1889, in 1892, 1893 and 1894. The combined plants then operated more than 265,000 spindles. The officers in 1899: M. C. D. Borden, president; William J. Harley, treasurer; James B, Harley, agent. The Metacomet Mills were purchased by Mr. Borden in 1901, and made the mill No. 6; in 1902 he built No. 5 Mill. The old Anawan factory was purchased in 1902, and brick Mill No. 7 was in its place. In 1916 the mills together operated nearly 500,000 spindles. Bertram H. Borden was president; Howard S. Borden, treasurer; Nathan Durfee, assistant treasurer.
The American Printing Company, formerly the American' Print Works, was established by Holder Borden as a print works in 1834. He had as- sociated with him stockholders of the Fall River Iron Works Company (formed in 1821). The American Print Works itself was started in January, 1835, with four machines printing from two thousand to twenty-five hundred pieces of calico a week. Holder Borden was the company's first agent, and was succeeded by Jefferson Borden, who was agent and principal manager for thirty-nine years. Thomas J. Borden, brother of M. C. D. Borden, son of Colonel Richard Borden, became agent and manager in 1876. The business was incorporated as the American Print Works in 1857, when leased land and buildings were purchased of the Iron Works Company. Colonel Richard Borden was then made president, and he held the office until his death in 1874. The brothers purchased the Bay State Print Works in 1858, and the two works were run under one management until 1876, when the Bay State building was converted into a cotton mill. Fires, with the loss of over $2,500,000 destroyed a large part of the plant in 1867; but in 1869 the business was again in running order in the new mill on Water street, 406 feet long, 60 feet wide and five stories high. The new building contained the latest improved printing machines, capable of pro- ducing 80,000,000 yards of calico a year, when in full operation. In 1879 the American Print Works passed into the hands of assignees; and in 1880 M. C. D. Borden incorporated the American Printing Company, with a capital of $300,000, that was afterwards increased to $750,000. Mr. Borden then associated himself with the firm of Wright, Bliss & Fabyan, after- wards Bliss, Fabyan & Company, then selling agents for the American Printing Company, until July 1, 1910, when the account of the corporation was transferred to the firm of M. C. D. Borden. Mr. Borden purchased the Fall River Iron Works in 1888, and erected the first of seven cotton mills in 1889, which in 1916 were owned by the American Printing Com- pany. The latter company in 1902 acquired the property of the Fall River Machine Company, and built a large storehouse. The works had increased in 1916 to a great plant covering an area of sixteen acres. Bertram H. Borden was president of the corporation; Howard S. Borden, treasurer; Nathan Durfee, assistant treasurer; Joseph H. Hindle, superintendent. The capital today is $2,000,000. The product is printed calicoes, cambrics, cretonnes, shirtings and indigoes.
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The American Linen Company had for its projectors such. men as Colonel Richard Borden, Jefferson Borden, Oliver S. Hawes and Lazarus Borden, who brought about the incorporation of the company in 1852, as the American Linen Manufacturing Company, to manufacture linen fabrics. The capital of the company was $350,000. The No. 1 Mill was built in 1852, 301 feet long and 63 feet wide. The mill was much enlarged in 1855 for a change of the production to cotton print cloths. No. 2 Mill was built in 1866, 393 feet in length and 72 feet wide, five stories in height. June 29, 1876, the two upper stories of No. 2 Mill were burned, but within four months the mill was again in operation; in 1893 the mill was extended 80 feet. The company owns nearly 100,000 spindles, with about 2500 looms. The presidents of the company have been: Richard Borden, to 1875; Jeffer- son Borden, to 1887; John S. Brayton, to 1904; Richard B. Borden, Oliver S. Hawes. The treasurers: Walter Paine (3rd), to 1871; Philip D. Borden, to 1896; James E. Osborn, James W. Anthony. The capital is $800,000. The company has operated the Allen Print Works at Providence since 1901 for the finishing of its products. Cloth produced annually amounts to 20,500,000 yards, and 850 hands are employed.
The Union Cotton Manufacturing Company, formerly the Union Mills, when the enterprise was started, was the initial result of a movement to establish industries upon the basis of general subscriptions of the com- munity. Hale Remington conceived the idea which in 1859 developed into the organization of the Union Mills Company and the erection of the No. 1 Mill of the corporation. The company was formed with a capital of $175,000. S. Angier Chace was elected president; David Anthony, treas- urer; Simeon Borden, clerk, and the directors were: S. A. Chace, David Anthony, Hale Remington, William Mason, Charles O. Shove, Charles P. Dring. The first print cloth mill of 1859 was of about 15,000 spindles; the next, in 1865, was for nearly 30,000 spindles. No. 4 Mill was built as an addition to No. 2 in 1895. No. 3 Mill was built in 1877. The plant has more than 100,000 spindles. S. A. Chace succeeded Mr. Anthony as treas- urer. The company was reorganized in 1878 as the Union Cotton Manu- facturing Company, with $500,000 capital, and with William D. Forbes as president and Thomas E. Brayton treasurer. The presidents since then in succession have been James M. Morton, Horatio Hathaway, Edward I .. Anthony, John F. Brayton. Benjamin C. Shove is treasurer. The pres- ent capital is $1,800,000. Close to 60,000,000 yards of cloth are manufac- tured per annum, and 825 hands are employed.
While the Civil War was at its height, the Granite Mills, so called because of the material of their construction, were established, and the company was organized, mostly through the efforts of Charles O. Shove and Edmund Chace, and with the original capital of $225,000. In May, 1864, the capital stock was increased to $400,000; in July it was further increased to $415,000; but in 1871 it was reduced to $400,000. The first officers of the company consisted of William Mason, president; Charles O. Shove, treasurer; and William Mason, John S. Brayton, Edmund Chace, Charles O. Shove, Lazarus Borden, Samuel Hathaway and Charles P. Stickney, board of directors. Mill No. 1 was erected in 1863, dimensions 328 by 72 feet, and No. 2 Mill in 1871, dimensions 378 by 74 feet; both mills five stories in height. On September 19, 1874, No. 1 Mill was partly burned, when there was loss of life; the mill was rebuilt without delay. A
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third mill of granite was built in 1893 for spinning purposes, the mill being two stories in height, and 234 by 127 feet in dimensions. A one-story picker room was also erected, 127 by 44 feet in dimensions. A large num- ber of tenements have also been built for the use of the mill 'operatives. The plant has about 120,000 spindles. The capital was increased to $1,000,000 in 1893, and it is now $1,250,000. William Mason remained president until 1892; John S. Brayton was president until 1904; Edward E. Hathaway was his successor, and Benjamin S. C. Gifford is now president. Charles O. Shove was succeeded by his son, Charles M. Shove, as treasurer in 1875. The mills produce 30,000,000 yards of cloth per annum.
The Durfee Mills were incorporated on February 15, 1866, and the mills were named in memory of Major Bradford Durfee, whose 'son, Brad- ford M. C. Durfee, was the largest stockholder in the corporation. The charter was granted Bradford M. C. Durfee, David A. Brayton and John S. Brayton, of Fall River, for the production of print cloth. Mill No. 1, five stories in height, was built of granite, 376 by 72 feet in dimensions. Durfee Mill No. 2 was built, a duplicate of No. 1 Mill, in 1871, and in 1880 No. 3 Mill was erected, its dimensions being 127 by 44 feet. During 1884 and 1885 two stories were added to the ell of No. 2 Mill; a new cotton house was completed in 1887, dimensions 264 by 93 feet, and in 1893 No. 2 weave shed was built. A building containing the cloth and repair shop was built in 1895, No. 1 Mill having been renovated the previous year. The mills had 137,000 spindles. John S. Brayton succeeded Bradford M. C. Durfee as president in 1872, and Hezekiah S. Brayton succeeded John S. Brayton in 1904. David R. Brayton, Jr., succeeded his father as treasurer in 1881. Dana H. Brayton is now president, and Sydney H. Borden treasurer. The capital is $500,000.
The Merchants Manufacturing Company was organized October 24, 1866, and the factory built on the lot owned by the heirs of the N. B. Borden estate and by adjoining parties. It was through William H. Jennings that the enterprise was put through, he securing the capital of $800,000 in two days. The capital now is $1,500,000. The directors of the company con- sisted of James Henry, William H. Jennings, Augustus Chace, L. L. Bar- nard, Robert S. Gibbs, Charles H. Dean, Crawford E. Lindsey, Robert K. Remington, Lafayette Nichols; and James Henry was chosen president and William H. Jennings treasurer. The first cloth was turned out from the new mill in February, 1868, the structure being of granite and five stories in height. This building was enlarged in 1871, its total length then being 397 feet. The Crescent Mills were acquired in 1893; and since 1901 for the finishing part of its product it has operated the Allen Print Works, at Providence, Rhode Island, in conjunction with the American Linen Com- pany. James E. Osborn was appointed president in 1893; Edward B. Jen- nings in 1898. Since the treasurership of William B. Jennings, in 1882, Simeon B. Chace was treasurer to 1895; Alphonso S. Covel to 1887; Andrew to 1898; James E. Osborn, Edward B. Jennings. Forty-one million yards of cloth are produced each year, and 1250 hands are employed. The mills have more than 130,000 spindles.
The Tecumseh Mills was one of the results of the demand for cotton fabrics at the close of the Civil War, the first meeting for the organization of these mills being February 17, 1866. With the securing of the act of
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incorporation February 8, 1866, Augustus Chace, James W. Hartley, John P. Slade and their associates were incorporated as Tecumseh Mills Com- pany, with a capital of $150,000 in shares of $1,000 each, the stock being taken by eighty-nine subscribers. Land was purchased on Hartwell street, on the Quequechan river, and a mill of twenty thousand spindles was built. The board of directors included Augustus Chace, James W. Hartley, Louis L. Barnard, Lazarus Borden, Jonathan T. Lincoln, Cook Borden, Danforth Horton, and Augustus Chace was elected president, and Isaac B. Chace treasurer. The first granite mill was 196 by 72 feet in dimensions, and was later increased by a large addition. Mill No. 2 was built in 1872, on Plymouth avenue, 200 by 75 feet in dimensions; and in 1895-1896 No. 3 Mill, 310 by 100 feet in dimensions, was built. The plant has about 84,000 spindles. Jerome C. Borden succeeded Augustus Chace as president in 1886. Treasurers since Isaac Chace have been Simeon B. Chace and Frank H. Dwelly. On May 4, 1906, the capital was increased from $500,000 to $750,000.
The Davol Mills Company, named after one of the leading promoters of the enterprise, William C. Davol, was organized on December 1, 1866, with a capital of $170,000. The first yard of cloth was woven at this mill on March 11, 1868. For the manufacture of shirting, sheeting, silesia and fancy fabrics, a five-story brick mill was erected, 300 feet in length by 73 feet in width. A large addition was built in 1871, and that year the capital stock was increased to $400,000. The capital stock had had a number of fluctuations at various periods, even running to so low a figure as $2,700, but the increase in 1890 resumed the incorporation amount; the capital to- day is $500,000. The plant now has 50,000 spindles and 9,500,000 yards of sateen are manufactured. Jonathan Slade succeeded William C. Davol as president in 1882; F. S. Stevens in 1883; A. B. Sanford in 1885; Frank L. Fish in 1892; W. R. Chester in 1903. William C. Davol, Jr., was treasurer to 1878; he was succeeded that year by F. S. Stevens; by C. M. Slade in 1883; by B. W. Nichols in 1885; by George H. Hills in 1887. Richard Brown is now clerk and treasurer.
By a special charter granted by the State Legislature on March 25, 1868, Thomas J. Borden, Stephen Davol, Lazarus Borden and their asso- ciates were incorporated as the Mechanics Mills. The corporation was organized on July 1, 1868, with a capital of $750,000, the board of directors being as follows: Thomas J. Borden, Stephen Davol, Lazarus Borden, Job B. French, Southard H. Miller, B. M. C. Durfee, Tillinghast Records, James M. Morton, Jr., A. D. Easton. Thomas J. Borden was elected president, and D. H. Dyer clerk and treasurer. The stock was largely distributed among parties of small means, there being in all three hundred and twenty- eight stockholders. A brick mill, five stories in height, and 372 feet by 92 feet in dimensions, was built. There are now over 60,000 spindles. Mr. Borden served as president to 1871; Stephen Davol to 1888; Thomas J. Borden to 1902; John S. Brayton to 1904; Richard B. Borden, Bradford D. Davol. D. H. Dyer served as treasurer to 1871; Thomas J. Borden to 1876; George B. Durfee to 1879; Frank S. Stevens to 1882; H. N. Durfee to 1892; Edward Shove to 1905; Edward L. Anthony, Melvin B. Horton, Edwin P. Kershaw. Twenty-one million eight hundred thousand yards of cloth are manufactured annually.
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The Stafford Mills, so named in honor of Foster H. Stafford, the first president of the corporation and the projector of the enterprise, was or- ganized on December 12, 1870, with a capital of $500,000 in shares of $100 each. Mr. Stafford was elected president and agent, and Shubael P. Lovell clerk and treasurer, with the following-named board of directors: Foster H. Stafford, Samuel Hathaway, Charles P. Stickney, Robert T. Davis, William C. Davol, William L. Slade, Danforth Horton, Edmund Chace, Weaver Osborn. The organization was dissolved on March 18, 1871, and the twenty-two subscribers reorganized under a special charter granted by the commonwealth to Charles P. Stickney, Samuel Hathaway, Foster H. Staf- ford, and their associates, with a capital of $550,000. The officers of the former association were elected to the same positions under the special charter. Some portions of the machinery of the new mill were started in January, 1872. The first mill, built of granite, is five stories high, 374 by 70 feet in dimensions, and its weave shed, built in 1900, 173 by 160 feet in dimensions. The plant has more than 114,000 frame spindles and close to 3,000 looms. Ten thousand bales of cotton are used annually. The present capitalization is $1,000,000. Mr. Stafford, the first president, died in 1891, and Robert T. Davis was then elected president. These men have served as treasurers: S. P. Lovell to 1882; Albert E. Bosworth to 1888; Effingham C. Haight to 1900; Frank W. Brightman to 1901; Fred E. Water- man, Charles B. Luthier. The present president is F. T. Mathewson; clerk and treasurer, Thomas B. Bassett.
The Wampanoag Mills, with a present weekly production of more than 12,000 pieces, were organized on May 31, 1871, with a capital of $400,000. The preliminary meeting was held on May 23, by Stephen Davol, J. D. Flint, William H. Jennings, L. S. Earl, Walter C. Durfee and Robert T. Davis. At the meeting for organization, Walter C. Durfee was elected treasurer and corporation clerk, and Robert T. Davis, J. D. Flint, Walter C. Durfee, Stephen Davol, Foster H. Stafford, Siméon Borden, George H. Eddy, A. L. Covel, L. S. Earl, William H. Jennings and John H. Brown, directors. Robert T. Davis was later chosen president. The first land for the mill site, fifteen acres, was purchased of Robert T. Davis and J. D. Flint. Cloth was first woven in the mill on April 1, 1872. The first mill, of granite, was 298 by 74 feet in dimensions, five stories in height, and con- tained 28,000 spindles. The No. 2 Mill was also built in 1877, five stories in height, of granite, 328 by 74 feet dimensions; its weave-shed two stories in height, 215 by 96 feet in dimensions, was built ten years afterwards. In 1877 the capital was increased to $500,000 and ten years later to $750,000. It is now $1,000,000. W. Frank Shove is the president of the corporation. Walter C. Durfee was treasurer to 1891; he was succeeded by Effingham C. Haight, and he by William Evans, in 1901, and by W. Frank Shove in 1905. Russell H. Leonard is the treasurer. Thirty million yards of cloth are manufactured annually.
Among the many incorporations of the year 1871 was that of the King Philip Mills Company, for the manufacture of fine cotton fabrics. Within a fortnight after the beginning of the project, the whole amount of $500,000 asked for was taken by forty-seven responsible persons. At the meeting for organization, July 4, 1871, the board of directors elected consisted of the following-named : Jonathan Chace, James Henry, S. A. Chace, C. E.Lindsey,
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Philip D. Borden, Charles O. Shove, E. C. Kilburn, A. S. Tripp, Benjamin S. Chace, Simeon Borden, Charles H. Dean. E. C. Kilburn was elected treasurer, and A. S. Tripp clerk of the corporation; and at the first meeting of the board of directors, that day, Crawford E. Lindsey was elected presi- dent. The amount of capital stock was placed at $500,000, and the act of incorporation is of date September 15, 1871. Twenty-one acres of the Dodge farm, and fifteen acres of the Slade mills land adjoining, were pur- chased, and the first granite mill of the company was built, 320 feet long and 92 feet in width, four stories high on the front and five stories on the rear, 380 by 92 feet. No. 2 Mill was erected in 1892, in which year the capital was increased to $1,000,000. A large weave shed was built in 1888, in .dimensions 288 by 100 feet; and another in 1892, 406 by 127 feet. These mills, with nearly 140,000 spindles, produce plain and fancy fine goods. Mr. Lindsey was president until 1883; Robert Henry until 1885; Charles J. Holmes until 1906; George A. Ballard, Oliver S. Hawes. Simeon B. Chase succeeded Elijah C. Kilburn as treasurer. The capitalization is now $2,250,000, and the mills have 133,744 spindles; 17,000,000 yards of cloth are manufactured annually.
Among the mills of the 1871 group were those of the Richard Borden Manufacturing Company, the charter being granted on May 19, that year. The entire capital of $800,000 was taken by twelve individuals. The board of directors consisted of Richard Borden, Philip D. Borden, Thomas J. Borden, Richard B. Borden, A. S. Covel. Richard Borden was chosen president of the corporation, and Thomas J. Borden treasurer and clerk. The Borden farm was purchased for the plant, No. 1 Mill being erected in 1872 and No. 2 Mill in 1889, and the buildings have nearly 100,000 spindles. The capital of the corporation was reduced in 1889 to $675,000, and soon afterwards increased to $800,000 by payment of $125,000. It is now $1,- 000,000. Richard D. Borden was elected president of the corporation in 1874, on the death of his father, Colonel Richard Borden; and in 1876, when his brother, Thomas J. Borden, resigned as treasurer, Richard B. Borden became treasurer, and Thomas J. Borden president. Upon the death of the latter, in 1902, Edward P. Borden, of Philadelphia, became president. Charles N. Borden is now clerk and treasurer. The cloth pro- duced annually amounts to 35,000,000 yards, and 750 hands are employed.
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