Leon N. Brown Match papers, 1864-1975.

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Leon N. Brown Match papers, 1864-1975.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29821539

The collection includes materials on the histories of fire making, matches and their production, match companies and their founders, and creation and development of the Diamond Match Company in Oswego. The more notable items in the collection are Brown's correspondence and notes regarding research on American match companies from the industry's early origins to the 1970's.

5 boxes ; 27 x 40 x 13 cm.

SUNY Oswego, Penfield Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7275722

SUNY Oswego, Penfield Library

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Diamond Match Company

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Brown, Leon N., 1890-

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Leon N. Brown worked for the Diamond Match Company in Oswego, New York and later transfered to the plant in Springfield, Massachusetts. He began working for the company in 1909 as a time keeper and was eventually promoted to chief accountant of the Oswego plant prior to being transfered to the Springfield plant. He retired from the company in 1955 at the age of 65. The Oswego plant was in operation from 1894 to 1952. From the description of Leon N. Brown Match papers, 1864-1975. (SUN...