Seymour Specialty Wire Company

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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)

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referencedIn Industrial Cooperative Association. Records, 1970-1993. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
creatorOf Seymour Specialty Wire Company Records, 1895-1992 Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.
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associatedWith Benedict Mfg. Company corporateBody
associatedWith Comstock & Wescott Inc. corporateBody
associatedWith Connecticut Hospital Service Inc. corporateBody
associatedWith Diamond Silver Company corporateBody
associatedWith Guanajuato Reduction & Mines Company corporateBody
associatedWith H.A. Matthews Manufacturing Company corporateBody
associatedWith Industrial Cooperative Association. corporateBody
associatedWith International Lock and Products Company corporateBody
associatedWith New Jersey Zinc Company corporateBody
associatedWith New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad corporateBody
associatedWith Phosphor Bronze corporateBody
associatedWith Phosphor Bronze Company corporateBody
associatedWith Rufert Chemical Company corporateBody
associatedWith Seymour Manufacturing Company corporateBody
associatedWith Seymour Water Company corporateBody
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