Information Regarding S.O. Bigney & Co. of Attleboro

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A topic for recording information regarding S.O. Bigney & Co. of Attleboro, Massachusetts, and the earlier entity of Marsh & Bigney.



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An image of Col. Sidney Osborne Bigney:



This image was published in 1908.

Sidney Osborne Bigney, born 4th November 1854 at Wentworth, Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada, died 1952 at Attleboro, Massachusetts, aged 98 years. He married Henrietta Stevens on the 27th June 1876 and the couple had one son, Harold Osborne Bigney (b.1886, d.1958).

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When Edward E. Richardson, assistant business manager of the factory of S. O. Bigney & Co., severed his connection with the concern Saturday, he was called into the office for a most agreeable surprise. Sidney O. Bigney, head of the firm, presented to him a very handsome leather upholstered Turkish rocking chair, and with it came a set of resolutions, showing that the purchase was made by subscription. The firm headed the paper with a liberal gift, and 130 of the hands joined. The resolutions expressed the high esteem in which Mr. Richardson was held, and their unanimous hope that he will have success and happiness in any future enterprise.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 4th May 1904

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S.O. Bigney & Co. - Attleboro, Mass. - 1900

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Sidney O. Bigney, of S. O. Bigney & Co., voiced accurately the feelings of his colleagues on the Tariff Committee of the Attleboros when he declared that the National Manufacturers’ Association had no place in its activities for tariff tinkering. When a speaker, Charles Norman Fay, of Chicago, tried at the convention in New Orleans last week to pledge the Association for tariff revision, Mr. Bigney emphatically opposed him and defeated the movement. Mr. Bigney went to the convention to enlist its aid against the proposed increase of duties to be placed on American products by Canada. He has come to believe however that the movement there is doomed to failure even without the American campaign of education which was planned.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 22nd April 1903

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S.O. Bigney & Co. - Attleboro, Mass. - 1905

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Sidney O. Bigney delivered a fine address in Bates Opera House on the Fourth. He was chairman of the committee having the matter in charge and those who heard the address are satisfied more than ever that he will yet make his mark in the political arena. At the present time he believes in attending strictly to business and not to meddle in politics until he makes his pile and retires from active business pursuits.

Source: The Jewelers' Review - 6th July 1898

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S.O. Bigney & Co. - Attleboro, Mass. - 1906

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BIGNEY, Sidney Osborne, mfr.; b. Wentworth, N. S., Nov. 4, 1854; s. James and Sarah Jane (Black) B., and descendant on father's side of Jean Henri Merle d' Aubigne. D.D.. the eminent Swiss divine and ecclesiastical historian; pub. sch. ed'n; began active career in employ of Draper, Pate & Bailey, mfg. Jewelers. Attleboro. Mass.; in 1879. organized firm of Marsh & Bigney, since 1894, S. O. Bigney & Co., which has become one of the leading Jewelry mfg. establishments of the U. S.: also pres. Bristol Mfg. Co., Attleboro Cooperative Bank, Odd Fellows Bldg. Assn.. etc.; del. Rep. Nat. Con v., 1904. and del.-at-large Rep. Nat. Con v.. 1908: selected to represent Mass. on com. to notify Judge Taft, at Cincinnati, and there presented to Judge Taft a life size portrait of the president-elect, from friends in Mass.; became prominent in 1906 as advocate of tariff for a fixed minimum rate not to be changed except by vote of Congress, and a maximum rate within power of the President to reduce or increase; well known as a public speaker; was elected to serve on Gov. Guild's Council from 2nd Councillor Dist. Mass. Clubs: Republican of Mass.. Home Market, Middlesex (Boston); Central (Providence): West Side (Attleboro). Address: Attleboro. Mass.

Source: Who's Who in New England - 1909

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S.O. Bigney & Co. - Attleboro, Mass. - 1928

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Archie Clarke, for the past two years western salesman for S. O. Bigney & Co, will in the future travel west for J. H. Peckham & Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 14th June 1911

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S.O. Bigney & Co. - Attleboro, Mass. - 1911

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Bob Sherman, for many years with A. M. Draper, of North Attleboro, and for some time with F. E. Hardwood, Inc., is now with the S. O. Bigney Co., Attleboro.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 18th February 1925

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S.O. Bigney & Co. - Attleboro, Mass. - 1903

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S. O. Bigney, of S. O. Bigney & Co., Attleboro, at the invitation of the Board or General Appraisers of Congress, went to Washington last month to testify before the Board which had under discussion the question of the proper classification of certain jewelry. The Board could have chosen no better informant.

Source: The Keystone - May 1898

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S.O. Bigney & Co. - Attleboro, Mass. - 1908

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Amos S. Blackinton, Jr., has resigned from the position of foreman of W. & S. Blackinton Co.’s factory, North Attleboro, and has accepted the position of general manager of the factory of S. O. Bigney & Co., Attleboro.

Source: The Keystone - June 1904

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The severance of the connection of Edward F. Richardson, hitherto assistant business manager of S. O. Bigney & Co.'s factory, Attleboro, was made the occasion of a presentation to him of a beautiful Morris chair on behalf of the firm and 130 of its employees. A set of resolutions accompanied the gift. These expressed the high esteem in which Mr. Richardson was held by the workers.

Source: The Keystone - June 1904

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S.O. Bigney & Co. - Attleboro, Mass. - 1908

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Three suits at law were filed in the Superior Court last week against the B. K. Mfg. Co. of this town. Sidney O. Bigney, of S. O. Bigney & Co., has engaged Attorney Harry E. Carpenter to recover $5,000 alleged to be due on two promissory notes. Mauran I. Furbish, a retired manufacturer, through Attorney Joseph E. Pond, asks to recover $1,200 alleged to be due on a promissory note. The third action is of precisely similar character, Herbert B. Robinson, of Mansfield, seeking to recover $1,200.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th July 1904

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