Stanley Woolen Company

Stanley Woolen Company, located in Uxbridge, Mass., was formed in 1905 upon the liquidation of the Calumet Woolen Co. Arthur Wheelock (1851-1927) and his son Stanley H. Wheelock (b. 1879) purchased the company's Calumet Mill; the American Woolen Co. purchased the company's Hecla Mill, also located in Uxbridge.

The Wheelock family had been involved in the textile industry in Uxbridge since 1810 when Jerry Wheelock (1784-1861) and his father-in-law, Daniel Day, built the town's first woolen mill. Jerry Wheelock left that mill after a few years and in 1834 entered into a partnership with his sons Charles A. Wheelock (1812-1895) and Silas Manderville Wheelock (1818-1901) to manufacture woolens. In 1846 the brothers established the firm C.A. & S.M. Wheelock to manufacture satinets, linseys and tweeds at the firm's Waucantuck mills, but by 1855 this mill was manufacturing fancy cassimeres only. Silas Wheelock founded the Calumet Woolen Company in 1883 to manufacture fancy cassimeres; in 1886 the company purchased the Uxbridge Woolen Factory which became known as the Hecla Mill. Arthur Wheelock, Silas Wheelock's son, worked for Calumet as a director and mill manager.

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