Benjamin Bullock's Sons

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FirmennameBenjamin Bullock's Sons
OrtssitzConshohocken (USA)
StraßeNorth Third Street 32
Art des UnternehmensTuchfabrik
AnmerkungenAnfangs in der Front Street.
Quellenangaben[Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 48+554]




Unternehmensgeschichte

Zeit Ereignis
1796 Geburt von Benjamin Bullock in Yeadon bei Bradford (England). - Er macht eine Lehre bei einem Lebensmittelhändler in Bradford,
1822 Nachdem er einiges Kapital gesammelt hat, tut sich Bullock mit Anthony Davis unter der Firma "Bullock & Davis" zusammen.
1837 Bullock beginnt das Geschäft in der "Spruce Street Factory", später im Eigentum vom William Divine.
04.06.1859 Tod von Benjamin Bullock




Betriebene Dampfmaschinen

Bezeichnung Bauzeit Hersteller
Dampfmaschine um 1868 unbekannt




Allgemeines

ZEIT1868
THEMAFirmenbeschreibung
TEXTAt Conshohocken, is probably the most notable Woolen manufactory in the vicinity of Philadelphia. It is a structure two hundred and eighty-five feet long, and eighty-five feet wide, and contains ten full sets of machinery, for making woolen cloths. Attached to the main building, are the dye-house, wool-house, fulling-room, engine room, and the building containing the apparatus for making gas from crude petroleum, which is supplied not only to the factory, but to the dwellings of the workmen in its vicinity. In addition, the firm have built around the mill a small town of neat and convenient dwellings, including a church, and having a fine macadamized road as its main avenue, and a park with walks and flower-beds, and a central fountain as its ornament. That the operatives in this factory appreciate the liberality of their employers and the efforts made to promote their comfort and well being, was evidenced in a very flattering and public manner by their presenting on February 1, 1863, to George Bullock, the principal manager, a service of the purest silver, lined with gold, consisting of a pitcher twenty-two inches in height, a salver, goblets, and other articles, duplicates of those which received the Prize at the late International Exhibition held in Paris, weighing four hundred ounces, and purchased at a cost of one thousand dollars. The motive power that propels the machinery is derived mainly from an engine of one hundred horse-power, though additional power is obtained from the stream on which the mill is located. The description of goods made here, includes Doe-skin Beavers, Moscow Beavers, Chinchillas, Coatings, Cloakings, etc., of a very superior quality. The founder of the firm operating this mill, was Mr. Benjamin Bullock, who was born at Yeadon, near Bradford, in England, in the year 1796. Apprenticed to a grocer in Bradford, he discharged his duties so faithfully that his employer left him a legacy of twenty pounds, which sum he used to pay the expenses of emigration to the United States. Arriving here at the age of nineteen, he commenced his career of industry in this country as a wool comber in the establishment of Henry Korn, then a weaver of woolen laces and fringes, and a manufacturer of military goods. In 1822, having accumulated some capital, he associated himself with Anthony Davis, under the firm style of Bullock & Davis, and commenced the business of wool pulling on Front street, above Poplar. In the succeeding year he removed to the store 32 north Third street, where he remained for a period of nearly thirty-seven years. The first consignment of wool ever made from west of the Alleghanies was sent, it is said, to this house, and consisted of a lot of three hundred pounds. The entire sates, however, during the first year of their business, did not exceed five thousand pounds, which, contrasted with the fact that his successors, the present firm, have received, used and sold, during eight months of a single year, five millions of pounds, shows in a striking manner how vastly the traffic in wool has increased. Perceiving a favorable opportunity to embark in manufacturing woolen goods, Mr. Bullock, in 1837, commenced the business in the "Spruce Street Factory", now owned by Mr. William Divine, who was then foreman at this mill. Subsequently, he purchased the "Franklin Mill", on Haydock street, near Front, and at a later period bought the property of Bethuel Moore, near Consbohocken, which, as has been previously stated, was, it is believed, the first woolen mill started in the State of Pennsylvania, and probably the first supplied with woolen machinery from Jenks' works, then located at Holmesburg. His operations, compared with those of the present firm, were limited; but he laid broad and deep the foundations of commercial integrity upon which his successors have built, and on the fourth of June, 1859, ceased from his labors, leaving to his sons, who continue the business, a handsome capital, and the more precious legacy of a good name. During the late Rebellion the firm of Bullock's Sons had, atone time, in operation thirteen factories, making blankets and blue or army kerseys, in which three thousand persons were employed.
QUELLE[Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 48+554]