. ocured in the eastern part ofthe town from Mr. Samuel Kelsey (a grand-father of Mrs. Philip Corbin and universallyknown as Squire Kelsey), and a contract wasmade with Mr. Henry W. Whiting for a two-story frame factory building, with stone founda-tion, and with a cellar extending under the entire building, the price for landand building being about six hundred dollars. In October, the cellar wasdug and the wall was built, and Philip Corbin spent Thanksgiving Day in1848 in banking the foundation to protect it from the winter frosts.
. ocured in the eastern part ofthe town from Mr. Samuel Kelsey (a grand-father of Mrs. Philip Corbin and universallyknown as Squire Kelsey), and a contract wasmade with Mr. Henry W. Whiting for a two-story frame factory building, with stone founda-tion, and with a cellar extending under the entire building, the price for landand building being about six hundred dollars. In October, the cellar wasdug and the wall was built, and Philip Corbin spent Thanksgiving Day in1848 in banking the foundation to protect it from the winter frosts. In thefollowing spring, the building was erected. A horse-power tread-mill whichhad seen some use had been contracted for in the fall before and was nowinstalled in the cellar, and connected with the machinery, consisting of agrindstone, an emery wheel, and two lathes; a big black horse was bought toturn the machinery ; two furnaces for casting (another was added a little later,when a small building was erected in the yard for a foundry) were built in the 23. FRANK CnRBIN HISTORY O F THE HOUSE O F P . & C O R B I N little lean-to in the rear, and by May of 1849 the plant was ready for was paid for in cash, and the three partners stepped into their estab-lishment with a factory free from incumbrance and a cash balance of somewhatless than two hundred dollars — with which to buy metal and conduct the business. It was very evident that money must come in quickly if the new concernwas to keep afloat, and to do this goods must be marketed as soon as balls for tipping the horns of cattle were in demand, and the partners hadinvented a new pattern or style which was an improvement on anything thenmade. A hardware merchant from an Ohio town, who was visiting a friend inFarmington, was shown one of these and at once gave a good order for 4, 1849, was celebrated by Doen, Corbin & Co. by the shipment of theirfirst bill of goods, completing the
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