Harry Bliss, Gorham Mfg. Co., has started out on a three weeks’ trip through New York and Pennsylvania.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 5th April 1893
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John F. P. Lawton, Secretary of the Gorham Mfg. Co., has returned from a short pleasure trip to Washington, Old Point Comfort and Virginia.
Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 25th April 1895
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Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 25th April 1895
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Col. Theodore A. Barton, assistant treasurer of the Gorham Mfg. Co., dislocated his right shoulder while attempting to board an electric car in motion, Monday morning. The injury will only disable him temporarily. Col. Barton broke a leg, about a year ago, and thinks that he has had his share of accidents.
Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 30th May 1895
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Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 30th May 1895
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Mr. Lawton on Dexter's Crusade
MR. JOHN F. P. LAWTON, secretary of the Gorham Manufacturing Co., is greatly encouraged over the results thus far made in enforcing the silver stamping law in the state of New York. He believes that the cases will be pushed, and that there are others held in reserve showing equally flagrant violations of the statute. He believes that a rigid enforcement of this law will have an excellent deterrent effect on both dealers and manufacturers who are willing to deceive the public by selling or making goods falsely marked. While Mr. Lawton now sees the necessity for a national law bearing on this subject, he recognizes that it is a matter subject to considerable delay, and in the meantime he believes that a state law can serve an excellent purpose.
Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 6th June 1895
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MR. JOHN F. P. LAWTON, secretary of the Gorham Manufacturing Co., is greatly encouraged over the results thus far made in enforcing the silver stamping law in the state of New York. He believes that the cases will be pushed, and that there are others held in reserve showing equally flagrant violations of the statute. He believes that a rigid enforcement of this law will have an excellent deterrent effect on both dealers and manufacturers who are willing to deceive the public by selling or making goods falsely marked. While Mr. Lawton now sees the necessity for a national law bearing on this subject, he recognizes that it is a matter subject to considerable delay, and in the meantime he believes that a state law can serve an excellent purpose.
Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 6th June 1895
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New Things at Gorham's
The Gorham Mfg. Co. of this city has just received a most gratifying evidence of the success, - or perhaps better expressed - recognition of merit of their new series of flat wares of the spoon and fork line, and known as the "Mythological series." The curator of the National Museum of the Luxembourg, Paris, has communicated with the Gorham Company, complimenting the models submitted and requesting the prices for a complete set thereof, that the necessary amount of money may be forwarded.
The designs of these goods embrace a number of the most interesting characters appearing in mythological history, as may be seen from the following list of the most prominent designs:
Saturn and Apollo; Amphitrite and Neptune; Diomedes devoured by his horses; Abduction of Deidamia; Charon ferrying souls to Hades ; Cheiron and Achilles; Vulcan presenting a shield to Minerva; Vulcan presenting thunderbolts to Jove; Head of Minerva (two designs ;) Head of Juno; Triumph of Orpheus: Arion and Dolphin; Perseus with the head of Medusa; Penelope recognizing Ulysses; Death and Charon; Aeneas and Anchises; Birth of Minerva from the heads of Jupiter and Vulcan ; Edipus and Sphynx; Seasons: Flora, Summer; Hebe, Spring; Winter; Ceres, Autumn.
A catalogue of these and other goods of similar design is being made which will not only give faithful representations of the productions in silver, but will be accompanied by a concise presentation of the stories from which they were derived, not only fascinating in them selves, but full of romance, devotion and bravery.
During Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the admirers of bronze and art work, as well as those who were friends and admirers of the late Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, were granted the opportunity of seeing a bronze panel portrait of the reverend gentleman, at the works of the Gorham Mfg. Co.
In the room with the panel portrait of Dr. Brooks, is a very beautiful lectern in dark bronze. It is a female figure representing an angel holding above her head a frame upon which may be placed a Bible or prayer book. It is fully eight feet in height and in its proportions and attitude are really faultless. Since the making of the first one of this design for the Church of All Angels in New York, no less than six or seven others have been completed and delivered to different parts of the country.
Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 6th June 1895
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The Gorham Mfg. Co. of this city has just received a most gratifying evidence of the success, - or perhaps better expressed - recognition of merit of their new series of flat wares of the spoon and fork line, and known as the "Mythological series." The curator of the National Museum of the Luxembourg, Paris, has communicated with the Gorham Company, complimenting the models submitted and requesting the prices for a complete set thereof, that the necessary amount of money may be forwarded.
The designs of these goods embrace a number of the most interesting characters appearing in mythological history, as may be seen from the following list of the most prominent designs:
Saturn and Apollo; Amphitrite and Neptune; Diomedes devoured by his horses; Abduction of Deidamia; Charon ferrying souls to Hades ; Cheiron and Achilles; Vulcan presenting a shield to Minerva; Vulcan presenting thunderbolts to Jove; Head of Minerva (two designs ;) Head of Juno; Triumph of Orpheus: Arion and Dolphin; Perseus with the head of Medusa; Penelope recognizing Ulysses; Death and Charon; Aeneas and Anchises; Birth of Minerva from the heads of Jupiter and Vulcan ; Edipus and Sphynx; Seasons: Flora, Summer; Hebe, Spring; Winter; Ceres, Autumn.
A catalogue of these and other goods of similar design is being made which will not only give faithful representations of the productions in silver, but will be accompanied by a concise presentation of the stories from which they were derived, not only fascinating in them selves, but full of romance, devotion and bravery.
During Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the admirers of bronze and art work, as well as those who were friends and admirers of the late Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, were granted the opportunity of seeing a bronze panel portrait of the reverend gentleman, at the works of the Gorham Mfg. Co.
In the room with the panel portrait of Dr. Brooks, is a very beautiful lectern in dark bronze. It is a female figure representing an angel holding above her head a frame upon which may be placed a Bible or prayer book. It is fully eight feet in height and in its proportions and attitude are really faultless. Since the making of the first one of this design for the Church of All Angels in New York, no less than six or seven others have been completed and delivered to different parts of the country.
Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 6th June 1895
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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1929
The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1929
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Charles H. Keach
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Aug. 10.—Charles Henry Keach, well known to the silversmith industry throughout this country and abroad because of his invention of a special process for photo-etching silver articles, died at his home, 134 Lexington Ave., this city, last week, following a lengthy illness. For 26 years Mr. Keach had been affiliated with the Gorham Mfg. Co. He came to Providence in 1903 to establish a department at the Elmwood plant of the Gorham Co. which was to specialize in the process which he had developed. After the department had become established, Mr. Keach became its head and further developed the process. He continued his experimental and research work and often was called upon to visit other plants to demonstrate and introduce his special process.
Mr. Keach was born at Newark, N. Y., on March 4, 1865. He graduated from German Lutheran College at Newark, N. Y., and immediately after matriculating became absorbed in photo engraving. While engaged in the photo engraving business at Wichita, Kan., Mr. Keach discovered the special process which he constantly improved. After a time he became connected with J. H. Leyson & Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, and severed his connection with that concern to come to Providence to accept a position with the Gorham Co.
Mr. Keach was widely known in fraternal circles, having been for a number of years an active member of Orpheus Lodge of Masons and was a member of the official board of the Trinity-Union Methodist Episcopal Church.
Besides his widow, he is survived by one daughter, a son, three sisters and two brothers.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 15th August 1929
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PROVIDENCE, R. I., Aug. 10.—Charles Henry Keach, well known to the silversmith industry throughout this country and abroad because of his invention of a special process for photo-etching silver articles, died at his home, 134 Lexington Ave., this city, last week, following a lengthy illness. For 26 years Mr. Keach had been affiliated with the Gorham Mfg. Co. He came to Providence in 1903 to establish a department at the Elmwood plant of the Gorham Co. which was to specialize in the process which he had developed. After the department had become established, Mr. Keach became its head and further developed the process. He continued his experimental and research work and often was called upon to visit other plants to demonstrate and introduce his special process.
Mr. Keach was born at Newark, N. Y., on March 4, 1865. He graduated from German Lutheran College at Newark, N. Y., and immediately after matriculating became absorbed in photo engraving. While engaged in the photo engraving business at Wichita, Kan., Mr. Keach discovered the special process which he constantly improved. After a time he became connected with J. H. Leyson & Co., Salt Lake City, Utah, and severed his connection with that concern to come to Providence to accept a position with the Gorham Co.
Mr. Keach was widely known in fraternal circles, having been for a number of years an active member of Orpheus Lodge of Masons and was a member of the official board of the Trinity-Union Methodist Episcopal Church.
Besides his widow, he is survived by one daughter, a son, three sisters and two brothers.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 15th August 1929
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John R. O’Kane, general sales manager of The Gorham Co., has been elected vice president of the firm. The Gorham Co. is a sales subsidiary of Gorham Mfg. Co., sterling manufacturer. O’Kane joined Gorham in 1934 as a field representative.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - November 1961
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - November 1961
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Frank M. Graham
PROVIDENCE, R. I., April 20.—Frank Major Graham, an executive of the Gorham Mfg. Co., for nearly 30 years and treasurer of the Looseleaf Mfg. Co. for the past four years, died suddenly last Thursday at his home, 33 Methyl St. Apparently in good health, Mr. Graham was stricken in one of the rooms of his home and upon the arrival of the physician he was dead.
Mr. Graham was born at Pawtucket, R. I., 55 years ago, the son of George and Ann (Omar) Graham. He was educated in the public schools of his native place and soon after leaving school entered the employ of the Gorham Mfg. Co., advancing through various positions. After his retirement from the Gorham Co. he became associated with the Looseleaf Mfg. Co. He was an accomplished musician and up until a few years ago was organist at the Trinity Episcopal Church, Pawtucket.
Deceased is survived by his widow, a daughter and two sisters.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th April 1929
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PROVIDENCE, R. I., April 20.—Frank Major Graham, an executive of the Gorham Mfg. Co., for nearly 30 years and treasurer of the Looseleaf Mfg. Co. for the past four years, died suddenly last Thursday at his home, 33 Methyl St. Apparently in good health, Mr. Graham was stricken in one of the rooms of his home and upon the arrival of the physician he was dead.
Mr. Graham was born at Pawtucket, R. I., 55 years ago, the son of George and Ann (Omar) Graham. He was educated in the public schools of his native place and soon after leaving school entered the employ of the Gorham Mfg. Co., advancing through various positions. After his retirement from the Gorham Co. he became associated with the Looseleaf Mfg. Co. He was an accomplished musician and up until a few years ago was organist at the Trinity Episcopal Church, Pawtucket.
Deceased is survived by his widow, a daughter and two sisters.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th April 1929
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J. B. Bonney, of the Gorham Mfg. Co.'s New York office, is in Chicago for a few weeks.
Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 27th June 1895
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Source: The Manufacturing Jeweler - 27th June 1895
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Stockholders of the Gorham Mfg. Co. Authorize Issuance of Additional Common Stock
PROVIDENCE, R. I., June 3.—Stockholders of the Gorham Mfg. Co., at a special meeting held this afternoon at the offices of the corporation at Elmwood, authorized the retirement of the balance of the company’s preferred stock, in the amount of $129,100 and also authorized an increase of 100,000 shares in the company’s no par value common stock.
The increase authorized in common stock is for the immediate purpose of allowing for the payment of a five per cent stock dividend voted earlier in the year to be payable June 3. Total authorized capital of the company, according to a certificate and an amendment to the company’s charter filed late this afternoon with Secretary of State Sprague will henceforth be 282,000 shares. Under the Rhode Island tax laws, the increase of 100,000 shares is equivalent to $10,000,000 and makes the value of the total authorized capital, for purposes of taxation, $28,200,000. The amendment as filed today, signed by Edmund C. Mayo, president, and H. C. Hoyt, secretary of the Gorham Mfg. Co., provides that if a majority of the stockholders so vote, it will not be necessary to offer the new stock to the present stockholders.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th June 1929
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PROVIDENCE, R. I., June 3.—Stockholders of the Gorham Mfg. Co., at a special meeting held this afternoon at the offices of the corporation at Elmwood, authorized the retirement of the balance of the company’s preferred stock, in the amount of $129,100 and also authorized an increase of 100,000 shares in the company’s no par value common stock.
The increase authorized in common stock is for the immediate purpose of allowing for the payment of a five per cent stock dividend voted earlier in the year to be payable June 3. Total authorized capital of the company, according to a certificate and an amendment to the company’s charter filed late this afternoon with Secretary of State Sprague will henceforth be 282,000 shares. Under the Rhode Island tax laws, the increase of 100,000 shares is equivalent to $10,000,000 and makes the value of the total authorized capital, for purposes of taxation, $28,200,000. The amendment as filed today, signed by Edmund C. Mayo, president, and H. C. Hoyt, secretary of the Gorham Mfg. Co., provides that if a majority of the stockholders so vote, it will not be necessary to offer the new stock to the present stockholders.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th June 1929
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The Gorham Mfg. Co. has declared the regular quarterly dividend of $1.75 per share on the first preferred stock Payable March 1 to stockholders of record Feb. 1, 1929. The stockholders of record date has been advanced 15 days this year in order to allow the holders a full month in which to exercise the conversion privilege which expires March 1, 1929. By thus advancing the date, the company is allowing the stockholders to receive the regular dividend of March 1, and still have time to convert their first preferred stock into common stock. According to the arrangements made at the time of the reorganization of the Gorham Mfg. Co. in 1924, holders of the present first preferred stock are given the privilege to convert each share held into two shares of common stock. The recent resumption of dividends on the common stock makes the conversion offer attractive.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th December 1928
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th December 1928
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Mrs. Susan Gorham Farnum, widow of the late Caleb Farnum, who died in this city on Tuesday, Feb. 12, in her 93d year, was a daughter of the late Jabez Gorham, founder of the Gorham Mfg. Co.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th February 1918
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 20th February 1918
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Burrill M. Getman
Burrill M. Getman, vice-president for marketing of Gorham Manufacturing Co., has been elected president of the Eaton Paper Corp. of Pittsfield, Mass., a Gorham subsidiary. Harry C. Dutton, who is retiring as president, will be Eaton’s board chairman. Both changes will be effective Jan. 1. With Gorham for 33 years, Getman became a director of the company in 1959. Dutton, also a Gorham board member, was president of White & Wyckoff Manufacturing Co. in Holyoke, Mass., before coming to Eaton in 1949.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - December 1960
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Gorham Corp. buys Graff, Washbourne, Dunn
Furthering its program of diversification, Gorham Corp. bought Graff, Washbourne & Dunn, silversmiths of Englewood, N. J., late in April.
A manufacturer of fine silverware since 1768, Graff, Washbourne & Dunn is the nation’s largest producer of quality silver picture frames. Most of these frames will be added to the Gorham line immediately.
Operations of the New Jersey firm are to be moved to Providence.
Gorham shareholders voted April 30 to change the name of the firm from Gorham Manufacturing Co. to Gorham Corporation.
Wilbur H. Norton, president, said the new name more accurately describes the present nature of the corporation, which no longer is entirely devoted to manufacturing.
Recent acquisitions, including Pickard & Burns, electronic research and development firm of Needham, Mass., and the Eaton Paper Corp. of Pittsfield, Mass., have changed the nature of the corporate structure and the new, shorter name is more compatible with these new activities, he said.
The 130-vear-old silversmiths firm has evolved from a two-man shop into one of Rhode Island’s largest corporations. It employs more than 2200 people and has an annual volume in excess of $30 million.
Two Gorham salesmen recently received the company’s top sales district contest awards at sales meetings.
Karl R. Haas, district manager for the Mid-Atlantic states, was admitted to the firm’s Gold and Silver Star Club and awarded $1000 plus a diamond and gold tie clip for having the greatest percentage increase in sales for the last half of 1960.
Raymond H. Stephens, who represents Gorham in the South, was runner up, receiving $500.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - June 1961
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Furthering its program of diversification, Gorham Corp. bought Graff, Washbourne & Dunn, silversmiths of Englewood, N. J., late in April.
A manufacturer of fine silverware since 1768, Graff, Washbourne & Dunn is the nation’s largest producer of quality silver picture frames. Most of these frames will be added to the Gorham line immediately.
Operations of the New Jersey firm are to be moved to Providence.
Gorham shareholders voted April 30 to change the name of the firm from Gorham Manufacturing Co. to Gorham Corporation.
Wilbur H. Norton, president, said the new name more accurately describes the present nature of the corporation, which no longer is entirely devoted to manufacturing.
Recent acquisitions, including Pickard & Burns, electronic research and development firm of Needham, Mass., and the Eaton Paper Corp. of Pittsfield, Mass., have changed the nature of the corporate structure and the new, shorter name is more compatible with these new activities, he said.
The 130-vear-old silversmiths firm has evolved from a two-man shop into one of Rhode Island’s largest corporations. It employs more than 2200 people and has an annual volume in excess of $30 million.
Two Gorham salesmen recently received the company’s top sales district contest awards at sales meetings.
Karl R. Haas, district manager for the Mid-Atlantic states, was admitted to the firm’s Gold and Silver Star Club and awarded $1000 plus a diamond and gold tie clip for having the greatest percentage increase in sales for the last half of 1960.
Raymond H. Stephens, who represents Gorham in the South, was runner up, receiving $500.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular-Keystone - June 1961
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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1959
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The handsome bronze memorial tablet dedicated by the Varnum Continentals at East Greenwich, R. I., on Monday last, was designed and cast at the bronze department of the Gorham Mfg. Co.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th June 1921
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th June 1921
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Included in the delegation representing the First Light Infantry Regiment of this city at the 283rd anniversary parade and banquet of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston, last Monday, were: Capt. Robert Sweet, with the Providence office of the National Jewelers Board of Trade, and Capt. Frank Barrows, with the Gorham Mfg. Co., and Col. William F. Flanagan, of the Cutler Jewelry.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th June 1921
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th June 1921
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SAN FRANCISCO
H. C. Van Ness, district manager for the Gorham Co., will leave shortly to visit the factories at Providence, R. I., and Concord, N. H. M. Cassetta, salesman traveling through California, Oregon and Washington will also visit these factories.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th January 1929
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H. C. Van Ness, district manager for the Gorham Co., will leave shortly to visit the factories at Providence, R. I., and Concord, N. H. M. Cassetta, salesman traveling through California, Oregon and Washington will also visit these factories.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th January 1929
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The Gorham Mfg. Co. designed and executed the bronze work used in the soldiers’ memorial, dedicated the past week at Wrentham, Mass.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 26th November 1924
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 26th November 1924
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