C.H. Dexter Company records, 1829-1999.

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C.H. Dexter Company records, 1829-1999.

The collection contains materials relevant to the production and sale of paper products, including administrative, property, financial, and legal records, in addition to product samples, advertising, publications, reports and photographs. This collection also includes a small number of administrative and financial documents from water and electric companies in the Windsor Locks, Connecticut, area in which Dexter had interests. C.H. Dexter Company collected some of the records of several affiliated businesses in the Windsor Locks from 1848-1936. The following companies with whom C.H. Dexter & Sons had administrative connections and stock holdings are represented in the collection: Connecticut River Company, Northern Connecticut Securities Company, Northern Connecticut Power Company, Northern Connecticut Light and Power Company, Stafford Springs Aqueduct Company, Coffin Realty Company, and the Grove Cemetery. Dexter held stock in some of the companies, and in others it was directly involved in administrative capacities (see the Coffin Realty Company and the Connecticut River Company records). One of the affiliated businesses, the Grove Cemetery, was established by the grandson of Seth Dexter as the family burial grounds in Windsor Locks.

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Dexter Corporation

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The Dexter Corporation began in 1767 as a small family-operated mill on land in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, purchased by Seth Dexter for his son, Seth. Under the direction of Charles Haskell Dexter, the company established itself as C.H. Dexter Co. and developed products for a market of papers and tissues. Joined by his son Edwin Dexter and his son-in-law H.R. Coffin, Dexter moved the company into the twentieth century as C.H. Dexter and Sons, Co. The company renamed itself Dexter Corporation in...

C.H. Dexter and Sons, Co.

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C.H. Dexter Co.

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