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Reischmann was born on August 16, 1860, in New York City, the son of Michael and Madeline Reischmann. [1] Michael was a German immigrant from Steinalben who immigrated to America in 1850, fought in the American Civil War, and established a furniture manufacturing company. [2] Reischmann lived in the eastern district of Brooklyn since 1872. [1]
Two years later a third factory was opened in Amlwch, Anglesey. Budenberg Gauge remained a family-owned company from its inception in 1850 until 1991 when it was sold to Burnfield plc. In 2002 the company vacated its historic Broadheath factory and moved to Irlam, where it continued to manufacture pressure gauges and accessories until 2020. In ...
The New York factory burnt down in 1880 - the loss was reported to be $750,000 with only $395,000 insured. [ 4 ] The company rebuilt the factory on the same site, and reopened the expanded factory in 1881, with capacity to exceed that of the Connecticut factory - which closed completely in 1883.
Covered vegetable dish by Samuel Kirk and Sons, c. 1850. Samuel Kirk (February 15, 1793 – July 6, 1872) was an American silversmith, active in Baltimore, Maryland, and best known for his introduction of repoussé to the United States. He engaged in various partnerships with his sons under the names of S. Kirk and Son and S. Kirk and Sons.
Its offices and factory were in a three-story building at Randolph and Ann (today, Racine [13]) Streets, owned by New York financier Hetty Green [14] and familiarly known as the Coan & Ten Broek carriage-factory after a previous occupant. A fire on April 18, 1880, caused damage initially estimated at $15,000 to $20,000, which was largely if not ...
William R. Haberlin is the man who made all of the tools and dies for the original Ives O-gauge ("O" gauge) clockwork train line in 1901. Aside from the patterns for the iron locomotives bodies (made by Charles A. Hotchkiss, mentioned in Model Craftsman - March 1944) and the clockwork mechanisms themselves (manufactured by The Reeves Manufacturing Company in New Haven, Connecticut, later in ...
E. Howard & Co. was a clock and watch company founded in 1958 by Edward Howard and Charles Rice after the demise of the Boston Watch Company.The pair acquired some of the material and watches in progress through a lien held by Rice against the defunct company.
R. Hoe & Company Headquarters in Manhattan at Grand Street and Sheriff Street,1930 Company headquarters in 1884, 504 to 520 Grand Street in New York City [1]. R. Hoe & Company was a New York City-based printing press manufacturer established by Peter Smith, Matthew Smith (died 1822), and their brother-in-law, English emigrant Robert Hoe (1784–1833), in 1805 as Smith, Hoe & Company.