Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 1919, the company's founders donated their private observatory in East Cleveland, Ohio to Case Western Reserve University. Today's Warner and Swasey Observatory grew from that facility. The company's 50th-anniversary book [10] describes the firm's giant-telescope-building work as unprofitable overall but a labor of technological love.
The company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914, when Mortimer Slater, with Charles Anson Bond and Lester Cohen, founded the stores as a retail outlet for their suit manufacturing company. Charles Anson Bond, whose name was chosen for its market value and meaning left Cleveland for Columbus, Ohio where he opened a branch of the company.
Higbee's was a department store founded in 1860 in Cleveland, Ohio. [1] In 1987, Higbee's was sold to the joint partnership of Dillard's department stores and Youngstown-based developer, Edward J. DeBartolo. [2]
Midland-Ross Co. was an American steel, aerospace products, electronics, and automobile components manufacturer which existed from 1894 to 1986. Founded as Parish & Bingham, a manufacturer of steel components for bicycles, streetcars, and horse-drawn wagons, it merged with the Detroit Pressed Steel Co. in 1923 to form the Midland Steel Products Co.
In 1927, Cyrus S. Eaton acquired and combined Republic with several other small steel companies, with the goal of becoming large enough to rival U.S. Steel.The newly named Republic Steel Corporation was headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and became America's third largest steel company, trailing only U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel after acquiring Bourne-Fuller Company and the Central Alloy ...
William Skinner & Sons, generally sold under the names Skinner's Satin, Skinner's Silk, and Skinner Fabrics, was an American textile manufacturer specializing in silk products, specifically woven satins with mills in Holyoke, main sales offices in New York, and a series of nationwide satellite offices in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Rochester ...
Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company. Buettell, R.B. (October 1915). "The Bingham Warehouse, Cleveland, Ohio". The Wisconsin Engineer. pp. 117– 123; Historic Warehouse District Development Corporation (March 2002). Historic Warehouse District Master Plan (PDF) (Report). Cleveland, Ohio. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 24, 2015
Ferro was founded in 1919 by Harry D. Cushman in Cleveland. [1] The company's headquarters are currently located in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. [1] In 2007, the company was listed as 844 on the Fortune 1000. As of 2011, Ferro operated 40 manufacturing facilities around the world. [2]