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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 02-29-2004 06:16 PM
  
Before founding Tifft & Whiting in 1840, Albert Crandall Tifft was a partner in Draper & Tifft of Attleboro MA. The only reference I have to the firm is a passing mention in Rainwater's entry for Tifft. I have tracked down two Draper's working as silversmiths and jewelers in Attleboro: Virgil and his second cousin and brother-in-law, Origen William (who used the name William O. Draper in business). Both, however, were younger by a number of years than Tifft, making a senior position in the firm doubtful. There were many Draper's in the town, so another maker is certainly possible, but I've found no further indications. Does anyone have another reference to the firm with a name for Mr. Draper? IP: Logged |
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Patrick Vyvyan Posts: 640 |
posted 02-29-2004 08:11 PM
This appears to come from something called the Annals of Wrentham County, under the heading of Jewellery, at www.wrentham.ma.us "The firm of Bacon, Hodges & Mason followed next after Messrs. Shepardson and Richards in 1844. They continued together the business for three or four years, when Mason retired. Then Messrs. Bacon and Hodges were the partners until 1850. At that date Mr. Hodges left and Josiah Draper and John Tifft united with Joseph T. Bacon in the firm name of Draper Tifft & Bacon and conducted the business under this style until Mr. Tifft died in 1851, when another change took place, and Frank S. Draper, son of Josiah, and Frank L. Tifft, son of John, and Joseph T. Bacon and James D. Lincoln formed a copartnership under the style of Draper Tifft & Company, which continued until July, 1860, when Frank S. Draper retired and the firm took the name of Lincoln, Tifft & Bacon. In 1863 or 1864 the manufacturing business at Plainville was carried on in the name of J. T. Bacon & Co., and the wholesale business in New York in the name of Lincoln, Tifft & Co., the same gentlemen constituting both firms. In July, 1882, Messrs. Harland G. Bacon, son of the senior member, and Daniel O. Schofield, of New York City, became copartners, the style of the firm being Lincoln, Bacon & Company both in New York and in Wrentham." IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 03-01-2004 11:54 AM
Thank you, Patrick. This started with an inquiry about Tifft & Whiting, which is easy enough. After that, things get complicated and I am still trying to work out who went where and when. So far the cast includes: Josiah Draper Albert Crandall Tifft Williams Sanford Lincoln (1st cousin of Albert, 3rd cousin of Josiah) And the firms involved include: Draper & Tifft Better order some more graph paper. . . IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 05-08-2009 03:43 AM
quote: Shepardson & Richards Manufacturing Jewelers advertised in Montague's Illinois and Missouri State Directory for 1854-5. Their office was at 170 Broadway, corner Maiden Lane, New York, and their manufactory was in Attleboro, Massachusetts. The proprieters shown in the advertisement were G W (George W) Shepardson and F W (Frederick W) Richards. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 05-08-2009 10:44 AM
So that there is no confusion, the Shepardson & Richards in the quote were not this later partnership, in fact it was not a partnership at all. George Washington Shepardson had converted the old Slack Mill in Wrentham to a button manufactury. He sold the works to Hervey Richards in 1843, who produced gilt jewelry there for about a year. Shepardson again took it up, but soon left for Providence. The mill was then purchased and demolished by Joseph Bacon, who erected a new factory for his company Bacon, Hodges & Mason, which eventually became Lincoln, Bacon & Company. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 05-08-2009 12:11 PM
Yes, Frederick would have only been 14 years old in 1844. My guess was that the year given for the partnership was incorrect, but I didn't have the information to clear that point up with any authority. There were just too many people in the jewelry business in Attleboro at that time to count out any possible combination with out knowing for sure. Thank you. IP: Logged |
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