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Wilson Manufacturing Co.
New London, CT, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Metal Working Machinery

History

Last Modified: Mar 28 2021 11:20AM by Mark Stansbury
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1874

Wilson Manufacturing Co. vises were invented by Charles Miner Daboll, who was plant superintendent. The Wilson's Oval Slide Vises were in the 1884 catalog of Huntington, Hopkins & Co.

Information Sources

Huntington, Hopkins & Co. : Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Hardware, Iron, Steel, Coal, Etc., 1884, Pg. 21.
Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography, Ed. by Thomas William Herringshaw, 1909, Pg. 189.

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