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George K. Pevear
| Firmenname | George K. Pevear |
| Ortssitz | Lynn (Mass.) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Lederfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | - |
| Quellenangaben | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 1 (1868) 686] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1847 |
Erste Versuche zum Gerben von Ziegen- und Schafleder in einem kleinen Holzgebäude in der Monroe Street in Lynn |
| 1854 |
Erlöffnung eines Geschäfts in Boston, Kilby Street 67-69 |
| 1861 |
In diesem Jahr werden 100.000 Ziegenfelle gegerbt. |
| Bezeichnung |
Bauzeit |
Hersteller |
| Dampfmaschine |
vor 1868 |
Putnam Machine Co. |
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Has been selected as a representative of that large class of enterprising men who have made Lynn the largest morocco manufacturing town, with the exception of Philadelphia, in the United States. His history as a tanner, compared with the others whom we have noticed, is quite modern, though his father was also engaged in morocco tanning, and he and his brother Henry, who is still associated with him, were educated to the business. Their first essays in the tanning of goat and sheep skins, were made in 1847, in a small wooden building on Monroe street in Lynn, and the first few years of their business life required all the proverbial energy of the New England character to supply the deficiencies of a want of capital. Their business however gradually increased, additional buildings were erected, and in 1854 they opened the store in Boston, at Nos. 67 & 69 Kilby street, which they now occupy. In 1861 they tanned one hundred thousand goat skins, and as the commencement of the "War caused a surplus of calf skins in the market, they embarked in this manufacture, tanning them by a novel and improved method into leather peculiarly adapted for ladies' boots. This addition to their former business involved the necessity of erecting a new building, which they constructed of brick, forty-eight by eighty feet, five stories in height, with a fire proof boiler and engine room attached. About this time they also abandoned the old method of tanning goat skins by sewing them in the shape of bags, and then by means of a tunnel filling these bags with tan liquor and piling them one upon another, and adopted their present plan of tanning the skins without sewing them. After the close of the war, in 1865, the return of the soldiers who required calf-skin boots, in place of the cow-hide shoes which they had worn in the army, so enhanced the market value of calf skins that this firm deemed it desirable to procure something to take the place of their grain or pebbled calf and found a very good substitute in neat's hide, tanned by a novel method and finished in a manner which never fails to retain its color. As more time is required for tanning hides than either goat or calf skins, they found their tanning facilities inadequate to their increased business, and they sought another locality for their factories. In 18C5, they purchased the property known as the "Lynn hermit Estate," and that known as the "Lynn Rubber factory," situated on the main road from Lynn to South Danvers, containing in all about twenty acres, on which were two large factories, a large brick boarding house and several dwelling houses. These factories they remodelled, and also built a new one so arranged as to form three sides of a hollow square, and provided them with all the modern improvements for manufacturing nearly all the different kinds of upper leather known in the market. In factory No. 1, the first floor is used for liming, milling, beaming and preparing skins for the tan room, and may be called the calf skin tannery, the upper stories being used for drying skins. Of factory No. 2 the first story is used for tanning goat and calf skins, and also the hides, until ready for splitting, while the remaining portion of the building is appropriated almost exclusively to the manufacture of goat and sheep skins. Of factory No. 3 the first floor is used for splitting the leather, scouring and preparing it for the finishers, and tanning out the splits; while the rooms in the upper stories are devoted to finishing splits, pebbled grain, polished grain, buff, wax leather, etc. These buildings are painted of a uniform color, with slated roofs and a cupola on each, in one of which is a bell. In a brick building, thirty-six by forty feet, is a Putnam built engine of fifty horse power and two large boilers, so arranged that power and steam are carried throughout the factories; and the room above is used for drying in damp weather, being separated from the engine and boiler room by an iron floor, so constructed as to conduct the heat and be perfectly fire proof. In this building is the only fire on the whole premises. They have in the immediate vicinity, connected with the establishment, tenements sufficient for the most of their workmen. This tannery is one of the largest of the kind in the country and is known as the "Stetsonville tannery." The Messrs. Pevear, it will be noticed, are an illustration of the enterprising men of the nineteenth century, fertile in resources, ingenious in adaptation, undaunted by difficulties, shrewd, successful and courageous in executing well formed plans. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 1 (1868) 686] |
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