Identifier: memorialhistoryo02trum (find matches)
Title: The memorial history of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884;
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Trumbull, J. Hammond (James Hammond), 1821-1897
Subjects: Hartford County (Conn.) -- History
Publisher: Boston, E. L. Osgood
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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been done in the Manross shop at Forest-ville, which was burned down and rebuilt in 1873, and in the old sash-factory at Bristol, which had been occupied for thirty years by Ives& Birge, Case & Birge, and by John Birge alone, in the same business. Mr. Elias Ingraham (Q94646680) began manufacturing clocks in 1843 in partner-ship with Deacon Elislia Brewster. Mr. Ingraham originally came to Bristol in 1827, having been hired by Mr. George Mitchell to design and make clock-cases. He was then twenty-two years old, and a cabinet-maker by trade. Brewster & Ingraham made cases in a shop built by Ira Ives, and movements in the old "Burwell shop", built by Charles Kirk. This firm was succeeded by E. & A. Ingraham, and the latter, in 1856, by E. Ingraham & Co. The last-named company, having lost the Ira Ives shop by fire, bought and moved upon its site the Bristol Hardware Companys factory, which it still occupies as a movement-shop. It afterward bought for a case-shop the old building which,
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BRISTOL. 57 originally the meeting-house of the West Britain society, had been early moved to Bristol and used as a cotton-mill, and afterward by George Mitchell as a clock-case factory. Having reorganized in 1880 as a joint-stock corporation, it is still conducting a prosperous business. Bristol capital was, until the panic of 1837, almost exclusively de-voted to the clock business; but during the latter half of this century other branches of manufacture have come to be of almost equal local importance. The largest manufacturing company in town is the Bristol Brass and Clock Company, which was organized in 1850 with 8100,000capital. The next year it built its rolling-mill and began the brass-foundry business. In 1857 it bought the spoon-shop which had been built in 1846 by the Bristol Screw Company, and afterward occupied for the manufacture of German-silver spoons, forks, and similar articles by Holmes, Tuttle, & Co. In 1868 its capital was increased to $230,000, and it bought the toy-shop

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