CHICAGO
Colonel Leavenworth, treasurer of the R. Wallace & Sons’ Mfg. Co., and George M. Wallace, formerly manager of the local office of the company, stopped over in this city last week, while en route from the San Francisco office to the factory at Wallingford, Conn. R. W. Morris, the local manager for the company, leaves this week for a visit to the factory.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 4th February 1903
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1915
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Henry Saunders, for 50 years an employe of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, Conn. died at his home in that town last week after a week’s illness. He was 85 years of age and for 55 years a resident of the town, retiring some time ago.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th December 1921
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th December 1921
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CHICAGO
Charles Madison Porter, representing R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., returned last week from a business trip through the north and northwest, and will leave within a week for his home at Nashville, Tenn., where he will pass the holidays.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th December 1921
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Charles Madison Porter, representing R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., returned last week from a business trip through the north and northwest, and will leave within a week for his home at Nashville, Tenn., where he will pass the holidays.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th December 1921
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CHICAGO
William Barker, of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., returned recently from a successful trip through the west, and expects to remain here until after the first of the year.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th December 1921
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William Barker, of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., returned recently from a successful trip through the west, and expects to remain here until after the first of the year.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 7th December 1921
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SAN FRANCISCO
Walter L. Glenn has gone east to take up his duties as vice-president of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., at Wallingford, Conn. It was a case of “Au revoir and not good-bye,” when Mr, Glenn left the new local headquarters of the W. B. Glidden Co., representatives of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., for it is expected that Mr. Glenn’s official work will bring him here about twice a year.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 16th May 1923
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Walter L. Glenn has gone east to take up his duties as vice-president of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., at Wallingford, Conn. It was a case of “Au revoir and not good-bye,” when Mr, Glenn left the new local headquarters of the W. B. Glidden Co., representatives of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., for it is expected that Mr. Glenn’s official work will bring him here about twice a year.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 16th May 1923
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E. J. Wallace recently transferred to the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., Wallingford, 29 acres of land in the district known as Cook Hill.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th April 1910
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th April 1910
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Wm. Laiblin, of the Chicago office of R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., is attending the hotel men’s convention at Los Angeles, Cal.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th April 1910
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 13th April 1910
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Wallace Silversmiths - Wallingford, Conn. - 1950
'ROMANCE OF THE SEA' - Designed by William S. Warren.
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Part of an article entitled 'How to Stay in Business for 100 Years' writen by Oscar Schisgall and published in 1954:
In the end we selected the R. Wallace & Sons Manufacturing Company of Wallingford, Conn., better known today as Wallace Silversmiths.
This firm was launched in 1835, during Andrew Jackson's administration. It began operations in a converted grist mill where Robert Wallace, the founder, turned out spoons made of German silver. For power he used a water wheel that creaked in the current of the Quinnipiac River. For labor he hired local apprentices.
But he prospered And he practiced Yankee thrift. Even by 1880, after he had been in business 45 years and was regarded as a rich and successful manufacturer, he drew only $2,000 a year for himself. Money was money then. In 1885, when the firm paid good wages to its skilled employes, the average rate of payment was five cents an hour. ( Today skilled employes of the plant get about $2.25 an hour an increase over 70 years, of some 4,400 per cent.)
Toward the end of his life, when the grist mill had long since given way to a larger factory. Mr. Wallace decided to write some instructions for the future use of his five sons. The philosophy he set down still animates the firm. In fact, its spirit animates many companies, His document reveals his weakness at spelling even as it reveals his deepest feelings:
"The business as it now stands has cost me a grate maney years of hard work and studdy and it not yet compleate. I want all my boys to take hold of it with energe and improve and enlarge it, spair no panes to get your work in the best and most graseful shape and perfect finish, and your business will increase every year."
Now in 1954, several lifetimes after those words were written, we interviewed the scion of the Wallace Silversmiths family in his Wallingford office, He is the founder's great-grandson, Donald Wallace Leach, and he insists that the family has always lived by Robert Wallace's words.
The result? After 119 years, Wallace Silversmiths fills 50 buildings on a 23 acre tract beside the Wilbur Cross Highway. It employs 1,100 people in a community of 20,000. There are families with three generations simultaneously working in its various departments.
In an economic sense, Wallace Silversmiths and Wallingford are almost synonymous. The firm supplies jobs for the town; the town supplies skilled help for the firm. Neither could exist without the other. Moreover, the company— now doing an annual volume of approximately $15,000,000- has a long history of being Wallingford's biggest taxpayer. Its pay checks to the 1,100 employes constitute a major factor in the local economy.
Mr. Leach agrees with the president of The 100 Year Association in maintaining that every generation of a business must take its own bold steps.
"Even if it means breaking with precedent," he asserts. "The changes most firms make are not always dramatic, yet often their very continuance in business depends on them."
Thus Robert Wallace, the founder, manufactured only German silver flatware. But the company's second generation developed tin-plating machines which, in turn, required new buildings, additional power, more employes, (Years later, in World War I, the firm was in a position to turn out most of the tin-plated eating utensils used in army mess kits.)
The third generation went into still another field— a new development in sterling silver. Up to that time American sterling flatware was what the name implied; flat. A spoon bore designs on front and back, with little around the edges. But the Wallace designer, William Warren, was— and is— a sculptor. Sculptors view their work from every angle. Mr. Warren produced a a new kind of flatware which required new types of dies, new machinery, new skills, its profiles were as carefully modeled as the fronts and backs in what the firm calls third dimension beauty. When it first appeared, it represented the only change in flatware design in more than 135 years.
Because the new product had to be made known, it carried the company into something wholly characteristic of the twentieth century: big-scale national advertising.
As for this fourth Wallace generation, it too has advanced into a new field —stainless steel.
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Donald Wallace Leach points to another recipe for business longevity. It has to do with changing styles.
A single successful pattern in silver is good for several generations. How important to long business life is it, then, to deal in products whose styles endure? Perhaps there is an answer in this fact: Not a single member of The 100 Year Association produces a commodity that depends on seasonal style changes!
Source: Nation's Business - August 1954
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In the end we selected the R. Wallace & Sons Manufacturing Company of Wallingford, Conn., better known today as Wallace Silversmiths.
This firm was launched in 1835, during Andrew Jackson's administration. It began operations in a converted grist mill where Robert Wallace, the founder, turned out spoons made of German silver. For power he used a water wheel that creaked in the current of the Quinnipiac River. For labor he hired local apprentices.
But he prospered And he practiced Yankee thrift. Even by 1880, after he had been in business 45 years and was regarded as a rich and successful manufacturer, he drew only $2,000 a year for himself. Money was money then. In 1885, when the firm paid good wages to its skilled employes, the average rate of payment was five cents an hour. ( Today skilled employes of the plant get about $2.25 an hour an increase over 70 years, of some 4,400 per cent.)
Toward the end of his life, when the grist mill had long since given way to a larger factory. Mr. Wallace decided to write some instructions for the future use of his five sons. The philosophy he set down still animates the firm. In fact, its spirit animates many companies, His document reveals his weakness at spelling even as it reveals his deepest feelings:
"The business as it now stands has cost me a grate maney years of hard work and studdy and it not yet compleate. I want all my boys to take hold of it with energe and improve and enlarge it, spair no panes to get your work in the best and most graseful shape and perfect finish, and your business will increase every year."
Now in 1954, several lifetimes after those words were written, we interviewed the scion of the Wallace Silversmiths family in his Wallingford office, He is the founder's great-grandson, Donald Wallace Leach, and he insists that the family has always lived by Robert Wallace's words.
The result? After 119 years, Wallace Silversmiths fills 50 buildings on a 23 acre tract beside the Wilbur Cross Highway. It employs 1,100 people in a community of 20,000. There are families with three generations simultaneously working in its various departments.
In an economic sense, Wallace Silversmiths and Wallingford are almost synonymous. The firm supplies jobs for the town; the town supplies skilled help for the firm. Neither could exist without the other. Moreover, the company— now doing an annual volume of approximately $15,000,000- has a long history of being Wallingford's biggest taxpayer. Its pay checks to the 1,100 employes constitute a major factor in the local economy.
Mr. Leach agrees with the president of The 100 Year Association in maintaining that every generation of a business must take its own bold steps.
"Even if it means breaking with precedent," he asserts. "The changes most firms make are not always dramatic, yet often their very continuance in business depends on them."
Thus Robert Wallace, the founder, manufactured only German silver flatware. But the company's second generation developed tin-plating machines which, in turn, required new buildings, additional power, more employes, (Years later, in World War I, the firm was in a position to turn out most of the tin-plated eating utensils used in army mess kits.)
The third generation went into still another field— a new development in sterling silver. Up to that time American sterling flatware was what the name implied; flat. A spoon bore designs on front and back, with little around the edges. But the Wallace designer, William Warren, was— and is— a sculptor. Sculptors view their work from every angle. Mr. Warren produced a a new kind of flatware which required new types of dies, new machinery, new skills, its profiles were as carefully modeled as the fronts and backs in what the firm calls third dimension beauty. When it first appeared, it represented the only change in flatware design in more than 135 years.
Because the new product had to be made known, it carried the company into something wholly characteristic of the twentieth century: big-scale national advertising.
As for this fourth Wallace generation, it too has advanced into a new field —stainless steel.
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Donald Wallace Leach points to another recipe for business longevity. It has to do with changing styles.
A single successful pattern in silver is good for several generations. How important to long business life is it, then, to deal in products whose styles endure? Perhaps there is an answer in this fact: Not a single member of The 100 Year Association produces a commodity that depends on seasonal style changes!
Source: Nation's Business - August 1954
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At the Republican caucus held in the Wallingford, Conn., town hall last Friday evening, Clifford W. Leavenworth, treasurer and a director of the R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co., was nominated a member of the board of relief and also school visitor on the party’s ticket for the coming town election.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th September 1913
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 17th September 1913
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R. Wallace & Sons M'f'g. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1895
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Frank W. Morris, traveling representative of the R. Wallace & Sons’ Mfg. Co., Wallingford. has just returned from a long business trip through the west.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th March 1903
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th March 1903
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The R. Wallace & Sons’ Mfg. Co., Wallingford. is to erect a large addition to its silverware manufacturing plant, which, when completed, will employ about 125 workmen.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th March 1903
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Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 25th March 1903
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1915
'AMERICA'
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Company - Wallingford, Conn. - 1928
'ANTIQUE'
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1916
'MINERVA - 9800/5'
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R. Wallace & Sons Mfg. Co. - Wallingford, Conn. - 1902
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Wallace Silversmiths - Wallingford, Conn. - 1941
'GRANDE BAROQUE'
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SAN FRANCISCO
Business was combined with pleasure by Walter L. Glenn, manager of the W. B. Glidden Co., representatives of R. Wallace & Sons’ Mfg. Co., on his three weeks’ trip through the northwest. Mr. Glenn called on a number of jewelers in the territory and, as he drove, he was enabled to enjoy many of the scenic beauties, including the Columbia River Highway, several national parks and Vancouver and Victoria, B. C.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 3rd August 1927
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Business was combined with pleasure by Walter L. Glenn, manager of the W. B. Glidden Co., representatives of R. Wallace & Sons’ Mfg. Co., on his three weeks’ trip through the northwest. Mr. Glenn called on a number of jewelers in the territory and, as he drove, he was enabled to enjoy many of the scenic beauties, including the Columbia River Highway, several national parks and Vancouver and Victoria, B. C.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular - 3rd August 1927
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