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William Moller & Son
| Name | William Moller & Son |
| Ortssitz | New York City |
| Straße | Vandam Street 87-89 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Zuckerraffinerie |
| Anmerkungen | Bezug zu "Moller, Sierck & Co." (s.d.) unbekannt. |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 152] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1805 |
Gründung der Ursprungsfirma durch W. & F. Havemeyer |
| 1847 |
Bau des zehnstöckigen Gebäudes an der Vandam Street bis zur Charlton Street |
| 1849 |
Gründung einer neuen Firma durch William Moller, der Teilhaber wird, unter der Firma "Havemeyers & Moller" |
| 1865 |
Es werden 17.000.000 Pfund Zucker im Wert von $2.800.000 produziert. |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
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Bem. |
Kommentar |
| raffinierter Zucker |
1868 |
[Bishop: Hist. of Amer. manuf. I (1868)] |
1868 |
[Bishop: Hist. of Amer. manuf. I (1868)] |
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| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Dates its origin as early as 1805, when the business was established by Messrs. W. & F. Havemeyer. It was then a small building, standing on the rear of two lots, 87 and 89 Vandam street, occupying a space of about fifty feet square. At that date a small capital was only required in the Refining of Sugar; but as new and better processes were developed, the business gradually increased until immense structures, and a large capital, seemed to be indispensable. In 1847, the present ten-story buildings, having a front of one hundred and fifty feet on Vandam street, running through a distance of two hundred feet to Charlton street, where it has a front of seventy-five feet, were erected, but are now scarcely considered sufficiently capacious for the requirements of the present business. In 1849, a new firm was created by Mr. William Moller becoming a member - the business being conducted under the name of Havemeyers & Moller. Previous to entering this firm, Mr. Moller Lad -a large and varied experience in all branches of Sugar Refining, having been employed for several years in large Refineries both in Boston and New York, and his influence was soon felt by the adoption of improved methods in conducting the operations of the business. Among the first of the improvements introduced by him, were the closed or tight filters, now so generally in use in other establishments of the kind. He was also the first to adopt the upright oval retorts, and the first to use muriatic acid to restore bone black; and the first in this country to use a machine for cleaning and washing bone black. This establishment, under his proprietorship, has attained great celebrity for the excellence of, its Cut Loaf Sugar - the machine for making it being the invention of Mr. Moller. This Sugar is well known throughout the continent, and is preferred by families because of its good quality, and the uniform size and shape of its lumps, at even a higher rate than the market price of "broken" or "crushed" sugar, or that cut into squares or cubes by hand labor. Mr. Moller is now experimenting with a view of boiling Sugar by a new process, and forming a vacuum by a syphon, and is quite sanguine of success. Enthusiastic himself for the accomplishmr t of whatever seems calculated to improve the product or benefit the business, he is also disposed- to encourage other inventors, who are admitted at suitable times to his Refinery to test the practical value of their ideas. This Refinery is now conducted by William Moller & Son, and employs one hundred and forty men, of all grades, in the various departments of the business. In 184T, the product of the establishment was seven millions of pounds of sugar; and during the year 1865, it was quite equal to seventeen million pounds, valued at $2.800.000, with a demand that seems steadily increasing, and inciting the proprietor to renewed efforts to meet it by new mechanical and scientific processes for increasing the product. The entire capacity of this Refinery Is about twenty-four millions of pounds annually. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 152] |
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