Snippets of Information Regarding the Gorham Company

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1930

'THE HUNT CLUB'

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Gorham Division of Textron - Providence, R.I. - 1973

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Gorham Division of Textron Inc. - Providence, R.I. - 1978

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Edmund C. Mayo, president of the Gorham Mfg. Co., was a business visitor in New York and vicinity the past week.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th April 1927

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NEW YORK

An interesting and educational five-reel film, entitled “Fine Arts in Metal,’ was shown last Thursday evening at the Art-in-Trades Club, 34 E. 38th St., this city. The film, which was made for the Gorham Co., covers all operations for the casting of bronze and the making of silverware. The making of silverware is shown in sequence including the modern methods and the old hand-wrought processes. In addition, there were also exhibited a number of examples of work in silverware together with many sketches and designs which made a complete display. The showing of the film was made possible through the efforts of Gordon Lang and Erik Magnussen, both of the Gorham Co.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th April 1927

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Gorham - Providence, R.I. - 1958

'PLYMOUTH'

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1927

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The death of Wm. B. Durgin, late president of the William B. Durgin Co., Concord, N, H., was followed by the announcement that the Gorham Mfg, Co, had acquired a controlling interest in the Durgin corporation. The business will be continued on the same lines as heretofore, with such expansion and introduction of new methods as the new proprietorship may decide upon. The Gorham Company is incorporated under the laws of Rhode Island, and is capitalized at $5,000,000. At the last session of the legislature, the charter was amended so as to enable the company to purchase shares in other corporations. Their first use of this privilege was in the purchase of the Whiting Mfg. Co. some months ago, and this has been followed by the acquisition of the Durgin corporation.

Source: The Keystone - June 1905

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Wm. B. Durgin, president of the Wm. B. Durgin Co., manufacturers of sterling silverware, Concord, N. H., died on Saturday, May 6th, at his home in that city, after a three-weeks’ illness from nephritis, aged seventy-two years. His passing marks the close of a career remarkable for initiative, for perseverance and for high integrity. Mr. Durgin was a silversmith with over half a century of practical experience, and to this he united the business instinct indispensable to business growth and especially to the direction of a large enterprise. He was born at Campton, N. H. and served an apprenticeship in the silversmithing shop of Newell, Harding & Co., Boston, Mass., and, as an initial venture for himself, began to make spoons by hand, disposing of his product by personally canvassing the trade. His goods proving reliable, his business steadily grew, and in time he erected a factory at Concord, which, with periodical enlargements and accretions, served the company until last year, when the plant, hitherto somewhat partitioned, was consolidated into a new and finely appointed building, erected by the company at Washington and White Streets. The removal of the company to its new home, and the fiftieth anniversary of the firm’s establishment happily synchronized last autumn, and were fittingly celebrated. Mr. Durgin conducted the business in his own name up to 1898, when the present corporation was formed, and he became its president. His encouragement of artistic silversmithing in Concord was an appreciable service to the community in which the greater part of his lite-work was performed.

Source: The Keystone - June 1905

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The Silver Tongue, the Gorham Mfg. Co.’s plant publication, was distributed the past week and like its predecessors is a model of typographical work. It is well edited and contains an abundance of crisp and pithy items as well as much general information concerning the company and its plant. In its leading article the late John F. P. Lawton, for many years secretary of the concern, is excellently portrayed. It was printed by the company’s own printing department.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 9th June 1926

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1926

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The Gorham Company - New York - 1918

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John S. Holbrook, vice-president, and William S. Stone, advertising manager of the Gorham Mfg. Co., returned from a hunting sojourn on the preserves of the Adirondack League Club. Mr. Stone 1s boasting about shooting his first deer.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th December 1915

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John S. Holbrook, vice-president of the Gorham Mfg. Co., was re-elected president of the Providence Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting held Wednesday noon. Arthur L. Aldred, of the Gladding Dry Goods Co., was elected second vice-president for one year and William A. Viall, of the Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co. was elected a director for a period of one year.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 8th December 1915

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The Gorham Company - New York - 1915

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1949

LYRIC - CHANTILLY - MELROSE - CAMELLIA - KING EDWARD

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Plans are complete for the taking over by the Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, R. I., the Silversmiths Co., New York, and its subsidiaries, the Mount Vernon Co., Silversmiths, Inc., Mount Vernon, N. Y., the William B. Durgin Co., Concord, N. H., the Whiting Mfg. Co., Bridgeport, Conn., and the William B. Kerr Co., Newark, N. J. John S. Holbrook, president Gorham Mfg. Co., will be chairman of the board of the reorganized company and H. A. MacFarland, president, Silversmiths, Inc., is president and in charge of production. Alfred K. Potter, vice-president and director, Gorham Mfg. Co., has resigned.

Source: The Iron Age - 1st July 1920

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1963

CHANTILLY - KING EDWARD - MELROSE - ESPRIT - STRASBOURG - FAIRFAX

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J. H. Listman, Chicago salesman for The Gorham Co., returned recently from an extended trip to Europe during which he visited all the countries of the continent. Mr. Listman left the States early in June.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th August 1927

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The Gorham Mfg. Co. is about to move its American window department, which is a branch of its ecclesiastic art works, from the Gorham building at Broadway and 19th St. to 250 W. 49th St., where additional room will be provided. At the same time an important feature will be added in the manufacture of English stained and painted glass. The company for some years has represented here the English house of Heaton, Butler & Boyne, and by mutual consent this agreement is now terminated. Accordingly the Gorham Mfg. Co. will produce both the American and English styles in stained glass. In the American glass all the coloring, except flesh tints, is imparted in the crucible, and remarkable results are achieved in layer work. The English style is to paint the figures and scenes and then fire the colors. Th'e company has now on exhibition a window which its artists produced in the 13th century Gothic style, about 7,000 distinct pieces of glass being used, a kind of work rarely executed now because of its costly character. A number of attractive Shakespearean panels in small sizes, suitable for hanging in library or other windows, have lately been completed at the studios in the English style and show that it offers an inviting field for the American artists.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th April 1907

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