Seymour Specialty Wire Company

The Seymour Specialty Wire Company was founded as the Seymour Manufacturing Company in 1878 by the Matthies family. The company produced brass products, at several mills along the Naugatuck River, for over one hundred years before closing in 1991. In 1984 workers at the company purchased the declining business from its owners, and it became the biggest employee owned industrial firm in the United States . Due to declining production however, the company closed in 1991.

From the guide to the Seymour Specialty Wire Company Records, 1895-1992, (Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries)