Snippets of Information Regarding the Gorham Company

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A new record for the Gorham Casino Bowling League rollers was set the past week by Charles Beattie, when he went across the sheet for a single of 169 to replace the mark previously held by Sittnick. Beattie was on a real rampage and had a total of 348 when everything was added. The three-string record for the season is 364, made by Hubbard. The Spinning team is on top, with 71 games won, 29 lost, and a total pinfall of 35,170.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th April 1927

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NEW YORK

George F. Miller who formerly represented the Gorham Co., on the Pacific Coast is in this city for a few days and while here is stopping at the Prince George Hotel.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 15th December 1926

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1939

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Alfred K. Potter, of the Gorham Mfg. Co., was a business visitor in New York the past week.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 9th February 1927

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Obituary

John Gorham

John Gorham, of Providence, R. I., son of the founder of the Gorham Manufacturing Company, died in Chase City, Va., oni Sunday. Mr. Gorham had been in poor health for some time, and nearly a year ago went South, hoping that the climate would benefit him. He was in his 78th year. To his energy was largely due the development of the Gorham company. He went to Europe in 1852 to study the silver manufacturing industry. After his return he introduced methods into the business which resulted in placing the concern in the front rank of silverware manufactories.

Source: The Jewelers' Review - 29th June 1898

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The quintet representing the Gorham Mfg. Co., has taken the top rung in the exciting scramble for the lead in the Cross Town Bowling League, winning three strings from its opponents in the past week’s games. The change in leadership is the fifth in as many weeks and although the Gorham pin pickers are now perched at the top of the heap, so close is the race that one week's rolling may upset the standing from first to fourth place.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 9th February 1927

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The Gorham Mfg. Co. has purchased additional land to their present plant on the east side of Mashapaug pond at Elmwood.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 9th February 1927

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Death of Frederick Kohlhagen

Providence, R. I., Feb. 26.—Frederick Kohlhagen, sculptor and designer of numerous tablets and memorials throughout the country and for 35 years an employe of the Gorham Mfg. Co., died Monday at his home, 198 Atlantic Ave., in his 84th year. Death was due to bronchial pneumonia, after an illness of only five days. Funeral services were held at noon Thursday at the funeral home of J. Will Carpenter & Son, 1447 Westminster St.,-and was attended by a-number of veteran employes of the Gorham company. Mr. Kohlhagen was born at, Soest, in Germany, on April 21, 1843, a son of Karl Kohlhagen. He studied art, designing and sculpture in Germany, France and Italy, and came to America about 50 years ago. For 17 years he was a member of the faculty of the Rhode Island School of Design, and, as a sculptor, was connected with the Gorham Mfg. Co., for 35 years, retiring a few years ago. The most familiar of the large number of tablets and memorials which were designed by him is the Grand Army Memorial, erected in 1916 on Soldiers’ Hill in Roger Williams Park, this city, near the present Temple of Music.

He was a member of the Westminster Unitarian Church, of Mount Vernon Lodge No. 4 of Masons, the Providence Art Club, Rhode Island School of Design and the Utopia Club. He was a musician and singer of exceptional ability and was a charter member of the Ein Klung Society.

Mr. Kohlhagen is survived by his widow, two daughters and five grandchildren.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd March 1927

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Death of Edward Zior

PROVIDENCE, R. I., Feb. 26—Edward Zior, 59 years of age, for many years an expert silvérsmith and chaser with the Gorham Mfg. Co., and familiarly known to the magazine reading public of the country as “The Master Craftsman’ was buried from his home, 141 Waterman Ave., Eden Park, in Cranston, on Monday.

He was born in New York city on April 5, 1868, a son of George P. and Anna (Saub) Zior and received his education in the public schools of that city. After learning the chasing business he came to Providence and entered the employ of the Gorham Mfg. Co., where he became very proficient in silversmithing, particularly in the art of chasing, being especially expert with difficult and intricate pieces of work. In recent years he gained considerable prominence by the wide publication of his picture in the advertisements of the Gorham Mfg. Co., in magazines and other periodicals wherein he was portrayed as “The Master Craftsman.”

For a number of years Mr. Zior was a resident of the Eden Park section and is survived by his widow, his aged father, now 89 years old, and one son. Funeral services were held Monday and burial was in North Burial Ground, this city.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd March 1927

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Alfred K. Potter, treasurer of the Gorham Mfg. Co., was a business visitor in New York the past week.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd March 1927

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Walter Ghislin, of the Gorham Company's Chicago office, is spending his vacation on a driving tour through the Wisconsin lake districts.

Source: The Jeweler's Review - 27th July 1898

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CHICAGO

The Western agency of the Gorham Manufacturing Company reports the best June business the concern ever had in this section. July is keeping up the average and promises the next best business to the World's Fair year. The house is putting out a line of patriotic spoons that is having a big run and has added materially to the summer trade.

Source: The Jeweler's Review - 27th July 1898

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SAN FRANCISCO

A. S. Peterson and Thos. Cassetto are both traveling in the northwest in the interests of the Gorham Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 2nd March 1927

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T. G. Jewett, W. H. Burton and H. S. Willis, salesmen for the Gorham Manufacturing Company, have been engaged at the works for the past few days in studying the new designs for the fall goods preparatory to starting on their annual fall trip. The new lines of the company are especially attractive and the salesmen will undoubtedly meet with deserved success.

Source: The Jewelers' Review - 20th July 1898

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PROVIDENCE

James McDonald, of the Chicago office of the Gorham Manufacturing Company, was in this city the past week visiting the works and calling on friends.

Source: The Jewelers' Review - 20th July 1898

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The Gorham Mfg. Co. has just completed a handsome solid silver trophy, designed by William Codman for the Carnegie Steel Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., which it will offer for achievement in the field of industrial safety next year, typified by the Providence Safety Council. The trophy is three and a half feet high, and its feature is a figure of Mercury, the Roman god of commerce, with the caduceus or wand of intertwined snakes in one hand and a laurel wreath in the other, on which is the word, “safety.” The caduceus typifies the healing arts, the wreath victory over conditions conducive to injuries to workmen in America’s great industrial plants. The figure of Mercury, known in the Greek mythology as Hermes, stands on a globe of silver representing the world. On the silver globe are shown in relief five scenes of the steel industry—workmen stripping ore, an ore dock, a river boat with a “tow” of barges, a train of ore cars and an ore boat. The silver globe is supported by a winged eagle, emblematic of America, and this model of the king of birds rests on a square base, on which appear the following chased panels, an ingot train, a roll train, a blast furnace and a Bessemer furnace. The square base bears the date 1927 and the words “Safety Trophy” and “Carnegie Steel Company.”

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 24th November 1926

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W. T. Graham, of the Gorham Co., was in Minneapolis and St. Paul last week calling on the retail trade. He had just come from Kansas City and St. Louis, and was on his way back to Chicago.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 24th November 1926

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J. D. Madigan, Chicago manager of the Gorham Co., was in Minneapolis on a trip which took him on a swing through Kansas City and Grand Rapids. From Minnesota he returned to Chicago.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 24th November 1926

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Paul Stanton, sales manager of the Gorham Mfg. Co., and Charles Bartlett, of the same company, called on the Cleveland trade last week.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 24th November 1926

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George E. Wells

PROVIDENCE, March 5.—Funeral services for George E. Wells, merchandising manager of the Gorham Mfg. Co., will be held tomorrow morning at funeral parlors in this city. Burial will be in Hackensack, N. J. Mr. Wells died suddenly yesterday at his home, 26 Grotto St.

Mr. Wells was a native son of New York and was in his 64th year when he died. He had been in the employ of the Gorham concern for more than 40 years. Before assuming the position of merchandising manager four years ago, he served for a number of years as president of the J. H. Whiting Co. of Bridgeport, Conn., a subsidiary of the Gorham company.

Mr. Wells was a member of the Rhode Island Country Club and a major in Company C of Hackensack, N. J., New Jersey National Guard.

Deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs. Katherine (Renney) Wells.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th March 1929

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