Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; (1904) (14781904622)

Identifier: connecticutascol03morga (find matches)
Title: Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen;
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Morgan, Forrest, 1852- ed Hart, Samuel, 1845-1917, joint ed Trumbull, Jonathan, 1844-1919, joint ed Holmes, Frank R., joint ed Bartlett, Ellen Strong, joint ed
Subjects: Connecticut -- History
Publisher: Hartford, The Publishing Society of Connecticut
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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or of the State; he hadcharge of its financial management from its inception untilhis death. The plant was the largest of the kind in the coun-try, having a capacity of 10,000 pair a day. The HaywardRubber Company closed its works in 1885 ; three years after-wards it was succeeded by the Colchester Rubber Company,which was finally absorbed by the United States RubberCompany, which closed the plant and removed the machinery. Goodyear, after perfecting his patents in 1845, granteda license for manufacturing purposes to the Naugatuck Rub-ber Company. They immediately began to make shoes, drug-gists sundries, army and navy equipments, etc. The outbreakof the California fever gave them the opportunity to furnishpioneers outfits; and during the Civil War, millions ofblankets were made. The business was then conducted underthe name of the Phoenix Rubber Company. The name of thecorporation was changed in 1848 to the Union India RubberCompany, and a factory was opened at Middletown for the 260
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CHARLES CiOODVEAR. CONNECTICUT AS A STATE manufacture of rubber clothing. It afterwards became knownas the Goodyear Rubber Company, and the production waschanged to a high grade of foot-wear. The Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company was startedat Naugatuck in 1843; ^ was the first concern to introducethe popular Arctic shoe. The next year saw the organizationof the Goodyear India Rubber Glove Manufacturing Com-pany, which located at Litchfield, but three years afterwardsremoved to Naugatuck. At this time they employed sevenhands, and gloves, mittens, and finger-cots were manufac-tured. Gradually their line was extended, until clothing,boots and shoes, surgical and druggists sundries were pro-duced. In 1881 the plant of the Phoenix Rubber Companywas purchased. The infant industry at New Haven had had a phenomenalgrowth. In 1850 Mr. Candee organized a trust known as theGoodyear Shoe Association for making shoes under Good-years patents; he also incorporated the business at NewHaven, an