History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . C. New-comb, also of Warren, formed a co-partner-ship under the name of Johnson, Fuller andCompany, leased a building in Camden,Maine, and equipped it with two sets ofmachinery. In the fall of 1864 the firstendless paper machine felt made in Amer-ica was produced by this company. a position with Huyck & Argersinger of Al-bany, New York. Mr. Johnson continuedas manager until his decease in 1890 whenhe was succeeded by C. W. Babb and B. The present officers of the KnoxWoolen Company are: J. W. Bowers, p
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . C. New-comb, also of Warren, formed a co-partner-ship under the name of Johnson, Fuller andCompany, leased a building in Camden,Maine, and equipped it with two sets ofmachinery. In the fall of 1864 the firstendless paper machine felt made in Amer-ica was produced by this company. a position with Huyck & Argersinger of Al-bany, New York. Mr. Johnson continuedas manager until his decease in 1890 whenhe was succeeded by C. W. Babb and B. The present officers of the KnoxWoolen Company are: J. W. Bowers, presi-dent; C. W. Babb, superintendent andtreasurer; G. A. Babb, assistant superinten-dent and treasurer. Its capitalization is$588,000 stock issued and $415, and undivided profits. Its line of products now includes machin-ery blanketing for all purposes. Buildingsand machinery have been expanded till atthe present time the Knox Woolen Com-pany has facilities of the most modern andup-to-date character. The trade territoryof this firm includes not only all portions. :4 7 of Knox Woolen Company, Camden, Maine Many obstacles vfere encountered, someon account of the difficult nature of theproduct they had undertaken to manufac-ture, others from their inability to obtainthe proper machinery for the pupose. Muchof the latter had to be designed and builtby themselves; and other difficulties were atlength overcome by persistency and Yankeeingenuity. Messrs. Bulkley, Dunton & Company ofNew York were appointed selling agentsand have continued in this capacity for morethan fifty-seven years. Johnson, Fuller &Company continued in business until 1872when additional capital was needed to carryon the increasing business, and a corpora-tion was formed called the Knox Wooleni-ompany. In I 880 Mr. Fuller severed his connectionwith the Knox Woolen Company and took of the United States but several foreigncountries, principally Japan, Norway, Swe-den and Finland. And though the f
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