Snippets of Information Regarding the Gorham Company

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Arthur W. Barrus was elected president of the Silversmiths’ Mutual Aid Association of the Gorham Mfg. Co. at the 47th annual meeting of the association, held Saturday noon at the casino at the works vi the Gorham company in Elmwood. This is the eighth time that he has been elected to that office. The other officers chosen Vice-president, Charles W. Gower; secretary, Frederick A. Burt; treasurer, Walter A. Clisold; auditors, George W. Rhodes and Arthur G. Jerome; physician, Dr. John C. Parker. Mr. Burt will assume the duties of secretary for the 20th time. The meeting was largely attended and plans were discussed for the carrying on of the association’s work during the coming year. The reports of the officers and committees showed the association to be in a sound financial condition.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st February 1911

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PROVIDENCE

The handsome silver service for the battleship Rhode Island, the product of the Gorham Co., and the gift of the people of this State to the ship, was placed on exhibition at the store of the Tilden-Thurber Co. last week, and was viewed by a large number of citizens. The presentation will take place within a short time at Newport, and all who contributed to the gift will be invited to be present.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 12th June 1907

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A. W. White, who has been associated with the Chicago office of the Gorham Co., for 16 years, and who for the past two years has been in New York city, has returned to Chicago and his old associates and is again in charge of the show room floor, of the Gorham Co., located on the sixth floor of the Silversmith building, 10 S. Wabash Ave.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 23rd March 1927

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The Gorham Company - Providence, R.I. - 1950

LILY OF THE VALLEY

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Francis Rich, one of the retired employes of the Gorham Mfg. Co., having been placed on the pension list Oct. 15, 1916, after many years’ service, died at his home at Conimicut, R. I., last Tuesday of pneumonia following an attack of the grippe. He was 69 years old and is survived by his widow.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th February 1917

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CHICAGO

The three suits brought in the United States Court in this city by the Gorham Mfg. Co. against Messrs. Goldberg, Sheppard and Bolokoff, have all been dismissed practically for want of prosecution. The defendants in the case were customers of F. & M. Weintraub, whom the Gorham Mfg. Co. is suing in New York for an alleged infringement of trade-mark. After the actions were brought in this city no testimony was taken nor did the plaintiff do anything to continue the suits. The defendants obtained an order requiring testimony to be taken at a certain time. The court ordered them to trial before a master in chancery, and when the plaintiff’s attorney did not appear, it then dismissed them with costs to the defendants.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st February 1911

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John F. P. Lawton, secretary of the Gorham Mfg. Co., is stopping at the Chalfonte, Atlantic City, N. J.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th April 1910

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W. V. Ghislin, Chicago manager for the Gorham Co., is visiting the factory in this city.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th April 1910

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The Gorham Mfg. Co. has just received a contract tor its bronze department for 15 large bronze tablets tor the $1,000,000 Soldiers and sailors’ Memorial Hall to be erected at Pittsburgh, Pa., by the citizens of Allegheny County in memorial to the soldiers and sailors who represented that section in the Civil War.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 1st December 1915

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A dividend of $1.75 has been declared on the 7 per cent. first preferred stock of the Gorham Mfg. Co. It is payable on Sept. 1 to stockholders of record Aug. 15.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th July 1927

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The plant of the Gorham Mfg. Co. at Elmwood, closed its entire silver department Saturday noon for a week’s vacation. This is the first time its entire silver section has been shut down for several years and a general overhauling will be made.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th July 1927

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Paying his first visit to this country, having arrived two weeks ago, Henry Wilson, noted English sculptor, on Thursday attended the “pouring” of several bronze doors at the Elmwood plant of the Gorham Mfg. Co. which are to be hung at the main entrance of the new Salada Tea Co.’s building in Boston. The doors were sculptured at the studios of Mr. Wilson in Paris, the work having been started nearly three years ago at the order of P. C. Larkin, High Commissioner for the Canadian Government to Great Britain. The work is said to be surpassed only by the famous doors of the Milan cathedral, and up to the present time have cost $100,000. Mr. Wilson’s work won the bronze medal, the highest award given to a foreigner at the Paris Salon last Spring. He has decided to exhibit his work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and probably at the Boston Art Museum, before the doors finally go into place. With the exception of pieces done for Ralph Adams Cram and used in that architect’s cathedrals, these doors represent the first large piece of Mr. Wilson’s work brought to America. He will remain in this country for several weeks, making a tour of the West before returning to Paris. The work depicts the “History of Tea,” and is done in high relief. Certain of the panels show heroic figures of natives in the act of loading the products, one of which is of three elephants with a mahout, and another shows two small loading barges under the stern of an ocean freighter. There are also several free figures symbolic of the deities that are supposed to hold the prosperity of the industry in their hands.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 6th July 1927

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Bowling holds a prominent place in the activities of the employes of the Gorham Mfg. Co. at the present time, as there is a ladies’ league consisting of eight teams and a men’s league of 12 teams, and every game is watched by a large gallery of spectators. Three teams—Bronzo, Stenographers and Production—are tied for first place in the ladies’ league, although standing in the order named in total pinfall. Each has won 12 and lost 4 games. The Office team, which is crowding the trio for honors, holds both the team records for single and three string totals. In the Men’s League, the Preparation Department team has only lost one game while winning 15, but the Maintenance team is a close second, having won 14 and last 2 games, but has a considerable higher pinfall total, and has both the team records for single and three string totals.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 11th November 1925

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

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A flagon executed in Martele silver, from a design by W.L. Codman:



This image was published in 1922.

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The Gorham Mfg. Co. during the past week sold to the Franklin Process Co. its plant at the corner of Eddy and Grary Sts. and Allen’s Ave. In addition to the realty, which has an assessed valuation of $153,480, the sale includes all the machinery and equipment in the plant exclusive of the property of the United States Government. The plant was purchased and used up to the time of the signing of the armistice by the Gorham Co. for the manufacture of shells and Stokes bombs and other munitions. Recently it was used for the sale of army surplus stocks. The sale constitutes one of the largest real estate deals made in this city in recent years. The Gorham Co. purchased the property on Dec. 11, 1907, from the Providence Machine Co., and at once began extensive alterations so that, in addition to new construction, the building is today equipped throughout with sprinklers and up-to-date heating and lighting apparatus. The land area is 106,943 square feet with'a frontage of 508 feet on Allen’s Ave. and 495 feet on Eddy St. The main building is a four-story structure, 60 by 220 feet, to which the Gorham Co. added a new building, 61 by 150. Connected with the main building is a three-story brick building, 36 by 123. In addition, there are four buildings for storage purposes and an office building. The total floor space available for manufacturing and storage purposes exclusive of the office space, is 98,000 square feet. A spur track from Allen’s Ave. runs the entire length of the main building and offers excellent facilities for handling freight, as 12 cars can stand on this track at one time.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 14th January 1920

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The Gorham Company - New York - 1909

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Raymond I. Blanchard, with the Gorham Mfg. Co., retired as Worshipful Master of Orpheus Lodge of Masons at the annual communication last Wednesday night.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th November 1927

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H. J. Lance, advertising manager of Gorham Mfg. Co., was chairman of the weekly luncheon meeting of the Town Criers at the Biltmore Hotel last Monday noon. The topic discussed was “Say it with Signs” led by R. V. Somerville of the General Outdoor Advertising Co., New York city.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th November 1927

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W. S. Willis, representing the Gorham Co, and traveling out of the Chicago office of that firm, arrived in Minneapolis on Sept. 30 for a two days’ business call. He had just come from Chicago, and was on a 30-day trip west as far as Denver. He reported “quite a little improvement” in business.

Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 5th October 1927

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