During at least 1900 to 1910, John E. Erickson's Dovetail Box Machine Company manufactured dovetailing machinery. In 1910 the business was taken over by the newly formed St. Paul Machinery Co.

Information Sources

• Patent records provided some dates for this maker.
• From a 1903 issue of The Packages:

  Our representative, who lately visited the Dovetail Box Machine Co., of St. Paul, Minn., found it. particularly busy. ... Mr. Erickson, the company's inventor and superintendent, was very busy overseeing the shipping of another car for Canada,...

• From a 1907 issue of Barrel and Box and Packages:

  Mr. John E. Erickson, St. Paul, Minn., is making numerous improvements in his machine shops, preparatory to turning out his latest ideas in dovetailing and setting-up machinery. Mr. Erickson's patents are not new in the boxmaking industry, and from his fertile brain we may look for something worth-while...

• From a 1910 issue of Farm Implements:

  The St. Paul Machinery Company has been organized by some of the leading business men of St. Paul, to take over the business of the St. Paul Ditcher & Carrier Company and the Dovetail Box Machine Company, both of that city. The new corporation has a capitalization of $450,000. The plant is located at Cosmo avenue...