Holley Manufacturing Company records, 1847-1933.

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Holley Manufacturing Company records, 1847-1933.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28415744

Correspondence, contracts, insurance policies, journals, ledgers, payroll and employee accounts, inventory books, cost estimates, catalogs, price and customer lists, sales journals, and other records, documenting the history and administrative, fiscal, labor, production, and sales activities of the company. Includes information relating to the formation of American Pocket Cutlery Manufacturers Association and its response to labor problems; agreements of Silver Plated Ware Manufacturers Association; account books (1882-1887) of Griggs and Chapin, a general store used by the company to pay employees in kind; record book (1919-1925) of union meetings; and miscellaneous records of R.G. Dun & Company, Manufacturers Association of Connecticut, and Kemble & Mills, a collection agency. Persons represented include founder, Alexander H. Holley, and George B. Burrall, Malcolm Day Rudd, and William B. Rudd, officers of the company.

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University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7259461

University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

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Silver Plated Ware Manufacturers Association

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Kemble & Mills

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Holley and Merwin

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Holley, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1804-1887

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John Churchill Coffing of Salisbury, Connecticut (1776-1847), and his second wife, Maria Birch (ca. 1780-1865), had five children: Churchill (1813-1873), Joshua B. (1815-1841), Marcia (1817-1854), Maria (1819-1839), and George (b. 1822). Joshua attended Yale as a member of the class of 1837, but dropped out after one year. Marcia and Maria both attended Grove Hall School in New Haven, Connecticut, in the 1830s. Marcia married Alexander Hamilton Holley (1804-1887) on September 10, 1835; their chi...

Manufacturers Association of Connecticut

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Holley & Company

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Rudd, William B. (William Beardslee)

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Burrall, George B.

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Rudd, Malcolm Day, 1877-

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Treasurer and general manager (1902-1942) of Holley Manufacturing Company, state legislator, genealogist, and local historian, of Lakeville, Conn.; d. 1942. From the description of Malcolm Day Rudd papers, 1796-1939. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28497959 Malcolm Day Rudd, of Lakeville (a part of Salisbury), Connecticut, was born on 3 April 1877, the son of General William Beardslee (1838-1901) and Maria Coffing (Holley) Rudd (1842-1914). ...

American Pocket Cutlery Manufacturers Association

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Holley Manufacturing Company

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Manufacturer of pocket cutlery and related products founded 1844 in Lakeville, Conn., as Holley and Merwin; name later changed to Holley & Company, and in 1854 incorporated as Holley Manufacturing Company; in 1925 headquarters moved to Torrington, Conn., with factory remaining in Lakeville; dissolved 1946. From the description of Holley Manufacturing Company records, 1847-1933. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28415744 ...

R.G. Dun & Company.

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Griggs and Chapin

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