Remington, Philo, 1816-1889 to Edward Clark

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GLC#
GLC02764
Type
Letters
Date
4 December 1877
Author/Creator
Remington, Philo, 1816-1889
Title
to Edward Clark
Place Written
Ilion, New York
Pagination
2 p. : Height: 28 cm, Width: 21.4 cm
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
The Gilded Age

Signed as President of the Remington Company. Discusses debt owed to the Singer Company which he is not able to pay at this time. Remarks on why he entered into the manufacture of sewing machines, "It was not primarily to make money; ... the impelling motive which drove me into it, was to give my people, ... more especially our skilled labor, - to keep them with us contented in the intervals -- in the periods when we should be without military work." Clark was President of the Singer Company. Singer held Remington's sewing machine division debt. Typed on stationary from the Office of Remingtons Armory, Ilion, N.Y.

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