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Fleming, Agnew & Co.
| Name | Fleming, Agnew & Co. |
| Ortssitz | Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
| Straße | Third Avenue 61-64 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Emaillierwerk |
| Anmerkungen | Hersteller von "stamped and japanned ware". |
| Quellenangaben | [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 82] |
| Zeit |
gesamt |
Arbeiter |
Angest. |
Lehrl. |
männl. |
weibl. |
Kommentar |
| 1879 |
75 |
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Gehalt je Monat: $2.500 |
| ZEIT | 1879 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | This extensive establishment was founded in 1856 by Mr. John Fleming in a comparatively small way. He continued the business alone for two years, when Mr. Joseph Torrence was admitted as a partner, under the style of Fleming & Torrence. In 1865 new partners being admitted the firm became Fleming, Torrence & Co., and in 1868 it changed to its present style of Fleming, Agnew & Co., who have ever since carried on the business. The members of the firm as it now stands are Mr. John Fleming, Mr. Edward Agnew and Mr. John Hamilton, all of whom are thoroughly practical business men, through whose skill and experience this branch of industry has been largely developed and extended. They occupy as warerooms and office a substantial four-story brick structure 50x60 feet, and as a manufactory a similar four-story building directly opposite on the same street 60x75 feet in size, in which tliey employ seventy-five hands, with a pay-roll amounting to about 2,500 per month. In this factory they have the best and most approved machinery to be found in any establishment of this kind in the United States, with one forty-horse power engine and boiler, the finest in the city. The facilities enjoyed by this liouse for turning out superior articles rapidly are not surpassed. They carry an average stock of about 860.000, and their annual sales amount to not less than 200.000; their trade extending all over the Union. Among the various articles manufactured by this firm which have given them such a wide-spread reputation, we may mention Japanned cake boxes, candlesticks, canisters, cash boxes, coal hods and vases, cuspadores, tea caddies, toilet sets in great variety, bowls and pitchers, tin toys, miner lamps, and every article in that line that may be required. Stamped ware, including every variety of plates, cake pans, patty pan, pot and kettle covers and bottoms, dippers, milk pans, wash basins, etc. They are also extensive importers of and dealers in tinner's stock, tin
plate metals, etc. This house stands prominent among the leading branches of industry and has contributed largely
to the resources and reputation of tlie Iron city at home and abroad. Mr. Fleming and Mr. Hamilton are natives of
Pennsylvania, and Mr. Agnew was born in the county Down, Ireland, but for many years has been a resident of this
city. |
| QUELLE | [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 82] |
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