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B Hagstoz withdrew from the company which became C. Thorpe Co. I will now include the following technical note as it shows why the Boss patent created such a dilemma for John Dueber and his prospects. Boss received a patent for 'spinning up' cases made of 'gold-filled' type material.
That is, material made of a sheet of composition metal usually brass sandwiched between two thin sheets of gold. Boss formed cases by rolling sheet metal as opposed to the traditional method involving soldering and cutting. Rolling increased the molecule density of the metal. His patent, No.
Unlike gold washed cases, which were made using electroplating, cases produced by means of rolling had much harder gold surfaces and were thus less apt to wear. John J. Dueber used the opportunity to publish and circulate, in ads, circulars, etc. Bowman letter undated also refers to the Dueber Keystone fight and gives a personal impression of Dueber. I have a very clear recollection of him; I remember his forceful personality; it made a strong impression on me.
I can still 'see' him, in my mind's eye. As nearly as I can figure it out, this visit of his was about 65 years ago. Dueber was dressed in the fashion of that day for an industrial 'big-shot', his suit was of black cloth, with a very low-cut vest with an expanse of 'boiled shirt' bosom and a very fine diamond stud in the centre of it.
Dueber at dinner, made quite a fuss about mother's 'huckle pie' and asked for a second serving of it and I recall how we children, when we got together after dinner, were amused that he said 'huckle pie' in praising and asking for some more of that deliciousness!
At the time of Dueber's visit, father had a large business wholesaling watches, tools, and materials and no doubt Dueber's visit was in connection with Dueber-Hampden watches. I remember, in father's office, seeing in the trade journals of that day, some of Dueber's advertisements during his war with the 'watch case trust' and his picturesque language, even referring in his publications to the Keystone Watch Case Company as the: 'Tombstone Watch Case Company.
Factory photos show the men in collar and tie, and ladies in fine dresses. A confirmed story has it that upon leaving the Canton factories after work John's private carriage, complete with fine matching horses, passed by an employee who shouted "Goodnight John". Dueber regarded this as disrespectful and improper, he promptly rose to his feet, pointed at the employee and said in return, "You're fired".
John and his family were devout catholics and the clergy were regular visitors to the Dueber household. He was, however, not austere and lived well when his companies prospered. Whilst still living in Newport he kept a "party boat" on the Ohio river, called the "Olivet". He used this to take up to a hundred employees at a time out for excursions, once as far as the Upper Ohio.
Built as a low water packet by George Strecker and Rodick Bros. The Olivet spent most of her first five years running various trades on the Muskingum River out of Zanesville. On May 23, John married Mary A. She was the daughter of John and Teresa Daller and their wedding took place at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral, Cincinnati. The couple would have four surviving children, Joseph, Albert, Estella and Pauline.
In later life Mary Dueber became an austere women who dressed in black and did not endure herself to her wider family. She resisted the move to Canton, which she saw as backwards and unsophisticated, she said Canton had pigs running through the streets.
She pledged that if she was forced to live there she would never leave the house, and she pretty much kept her word. Whatever she needed she ordered from Cincinnati and had it delivered. One of the families most enduring stories tells of the day Mary answered the door to a man asking to see Mr Dueber, she nonchalantly turned and shouted back into the house "John there's a man at the door for you". During this sensational event it was reported in the Canton newspapers that "Positive testimony was also given", on her behalf, "by such esteemed locals as Mr John Dueber and his wife.
Aultman's North Market Street neighbors". So it seems she had made a special effort to go out to help Katherine. Bizarrely , not long after John's death Mary came across cases of Madeira wine he had had specially shipped from Spain. According to her great grandson the family recollection is that she destroyed them with an axe. According to James W. His operation was rapidly outgrowing the factories in Newport but due to a dispute between Dueber and the city administrators they did not allow him land on which to expand.
The falling out occurred after Dueber had built a gas works to supply his factory. He later sold excess gas to adjoining companies and homes. Demand grew but the infrastructures requirment to pipe the gas led to claims over taxes. Instead of seeing this as progress for their city, the administration became intransigent. Dueber typically refused to bow down to pressure and instead decided to pull-up stakes and move. John Dueber got embroiled in yet a another dispute, this time with three of his largest watch making customers Elgin, Waltham and Illinois.
This resulted in them, and the Watch Case Trust, boycotting his products. In the early years of American watch making the then small number of companies made both cases and movements. As the industry developed separate companies were formed to make either cases or movements exclusively. The case factories used mass production techniques and multiplied faster than the movements manufacturers and soon there was overproduction of cases. Trusts were agreements between business competitors, selling the same product or service, regarding pricing, market allocation and agreement not to compete within each others geographic territories etc.
John Dueber was opposed to trusts and refused to join. As a consequence he was subjected to a boycott which made trading very difficult. Dueber was faced with two alternatives: Buy a watch company, to enable him to sell his cases as finished watches, or submit to the trust.
True to his character, in he bought a controlling interest in another of his customers, the Hampden Watch Company of Springfield Mass. So by with no opportunity to buy land to expand in Newport, or accommodate the newly acquired Hampden company, which continued to operate from Springfield.
Which with added families members would mean a 7, to 10, increase in population. Maps of Canton not matching scale showing before and after the factories were built. In the 's, the city's largest employer, C. The firm also began closing down its factory from November to January each year, leaving workers unpaid for that period. Both actions placed a great hardship on the workers, their families and the city of Canton, where there was little alternative employment.
The situation was made worse by the death of Aultman in , the financial and social figurehead of Canton. Canton is the county seat of Stark County in northeastern Ohio, approximately 60 miles south of Cleveland and 24 miles south of Akron. Incorporated as a village in , as a town in and as a city in In just three months the full amount was in place. John C.
Dueber was invited together with his eldest son, Joseph C. Dueber and a party of 40 associates and assistants, to a large meeting in Canton. The meeting was held at the Opera House in June , with 1, attending. A congratulatory telegram was received from local Congressman William McKinley, later to become a personal friend of John Dueber and more importantly the 25th US President.
The city council also agreed to a railroad spur running into the factory grounds from the Pennsylvania Railroad. Work started on the new factories on October 14th, The plans called for two buildings for the two separate companies - the Hampden Watch Works to the south - the Dueber Watch Case Works to the north. The buildings had a combined frontage of 1, feet, almost twice as long as the large factory of their great rivals Waltham. The buildings were the last word in watch making architecture and were drawn up by Akron architects George W.
Kramer and F. The park grounds surrounding the buildings brought a new note of impressive distinction and beauty to Canton's buildings, skyline and landscape. The central parts of each building served as offices and rose to feet in height, the equivalent of 12 story skyscrapers.
The turrets on the wings were feet high and the steam-engine stack rose feet. The most majestic landmark was the tower with the great E. Howard clock, with its four faces, which kept time for the next 60 plus years. Between and , whilst John Dueber erected his factory, Canton busily built houses to provide homes for the hundreds of workers and their families, who were to come from Springfield and Newport. The Hampden building to the left, the Dueber building on the right nearest Tuscarawas Street.
Circa The factory building operation got a set-back on the May 27th, , when a terrific rainstorm and cyclone hit the south wing of the Hampden building see photo right and levelled it into a mass of ruins. The just completed wing, was feet long, 30 feet wide and 3 stories high. While John Dueber was looking over the ruins with his architects, 18 year old Ira Augnst approached him and asked for a job. Dueber engaged him on the spot. He was the first Canton citizen to be employed by the company and he continued working there for 41 years advancing to become head of the Heat Treatment department.
He was also one of the 23 members of staff who would later go Russia. As the factory openings neared there was a great buzz of excitement in Canton. A study of newspaper reports from that period reflects the degree of organisation that the city undertook. Committees were formed to take care of every possible eventuality. A big banquet was organised for the workers and members of their families.
Early in August of two special trains brought the first contingent of Hampden workers from Springfield. Operations at the Watch factory began immediately, a year earlier than the Watch Case Works. By the end of the first year the Hampden factory was employing 1, persons, and turning out watches a day. In February of the company declared an 8 per cent dividend. Hampden watches enjoyed a trade reputation of being amongst the highest grade on the market. Hampden watches were popular with railroad men, an important benchmark of the era.
John Dueber had chosen wisely when he bought the Hampden company, where the skill of the watch workers was amongst the highest in America. A collage of photo's and postcards taken over the lifetime of the factory. A copy of the staff photo is also seen on the cabinet at the bottom left. Bottom right is a picture of the company parade float - Canton 4th July At least we know that in Eugene J.
This event foreshadowed the impending economic panic of when many businesses, despite having good asset positions, became embarrassed for ready cash. Even though Hampden had assets three to one over liabilities, it became dollar short when Mr.
Dueber bought out the interests of Mr. All operations were suspended for a week or two and Mr. A combination of Dueber, Douglas, Judge Goebel of the Probate Circuit Court, and a trust of twenty Canton citizens, soon worked out the difficulties and in a few months the assignment was lifted. Six months later all the trust indebtedness was retired. Thus in the year Dueber and his family became the sole owners of both companies. Ball Co. Ball placed large orders for "Ball's Standard Railway Watches' with Dueber and this period coincided with Dueber making it clear he manufactured the watches and that he sold the same watch under his own name.
The Ball Watch Company did not manufacture watches directly. Web Ball helped develop the specifications for watches used by railroads. He selected the best movements available, perfecting them and then reselling them. Ball Watch Company also ordered watches from other watch companies and put the company name on the face and watch movements. Webb Ball established strict. The Waltham Watch Company complied immediately with the requirements of Ball's guidelines, later followed by Elgin Watch Company and most of the other American manufacturers, later on joined by some Swiss Watch Manufacturers.
Howard, and Hampden. His attention to accuracy and promptness led to the well-known saying, "On the Ball. Despite the watch business flourishing John Dueber still had to operate in the face of the watch case trust. This had been going on since before leaving Newport, all his fighting qualities were required to meet the continuing boycott by some 27 American watch case factories.
They disapproved of his sale of cases to the Rockford Watch Company who did not restrict the sale of its products to the members of the association. By September , he had succeed, in no small measure, in breaking the worst of the boycotts grip. At that time the capital of the Dueber Watch Case Co. The courts decided against the Watch Trust in and the boycott was called off in Hampden watches with 14 karat special filled cases and 17 jewel movements, said to have been the first on the market, commanded a high price because of their intrinsic value.
Hampden brought out the first 23 jewelled watch movements in the US. Altogether the company brought out seven different sizes of watches, only one of which was discontinued. Karl Krumm was responsible for jeweling them all. In a suit was brought against John Dueber by the Waltham and Elgin companies for infringing on the Colby Patent for pendant stem set watches. When the lower courts ruled against Dueber he carried the case to the District Court of Appeals before Judge Howard Taft another future US President and there won a reversal of the decision of the lower court.
The examples are diverse in content and reflect a bold, confident company at its zenith. From my collection. Dueber Cycles. By cycling became the rage, people took bike excursions around the city and surrounding countryside. Bike racks were provided for workers at the factory, at stores and schools. The two Dueber brother became devotees, riding around town impressing the local girls. It's not clear if they persuaded John Dueber to get into bicycle production, or if he saw it as a way to curb their lifestyles.
Either way he did add bicycles to his production, in a special adjoining building next to The Watch Case Works. Manufacture continuing about five years until the space was needed. This enterprise was quickly disbanded when the watch case business needed to reclaim it's factory space to meet a large increase in orders, oddly enough from European watch maker s.
There were of course some other prominent Ohio citizens capitalising on the national bicycle craze, the Wright brothers opened a repair and sales shop in Dayton in the Wright Cycle Exchange, later the Wright Cycle Company and began manufacturing their own brand in Wilbur kept time with his Hampden Railroad pocket watch, whilst Orville carried a Rockford Railroad pocket watch.
They also used a Sun stopwatch. Joseph Dueber. It is thought that neither of John's sons were exactly cast in his mould and that they had a reputation for being something of playboys. Nevertheless, both followed him into the company. The younger son Albert M. Dueber would eventually be the last Dueber to run the company.
The eldest son Joseph had been groomed to take over the business but sadly he fell ill and died suddenly on the last day of the 19th century, aged 28, a blow both to his father and to the future prospects of the company. Joseph C. Dueber's recorded achievements. John Dueber was a staunch supporter of William McKinley and also personal friend. Although he never sought political office himself he fought hard to get McKinley elected as President in March It would seem he was a little over zealous and according to the neighbouring Zanesville newspaper report, reproduced below, took steps that would not seem correct today.
The local, strongly Republican, Canton Repository newspaper may not have reported this incident as John Dueber and his associate Col. Dueber was chosen by the McKinley family to act as an honorary pall bearer at his state funeral.
The photo below shows him seated far right with the other bearers. McKinley's honorary pall bearers. Dueber seated right. This is a unique picture of John Dueber and the only one existing outside the family. Any other will be a crop or simulated! Donald J. It was moved to Springfield, Massachusetts in and two grades of watches were produced. The company became the Hampden Watch Company in John C. Dueber had been manufacturing watch cases since and bought controlling interest in a case company in about At about this time an anti-trust law was passed and the watch case manufacturers formed a boycott against Dueber.
In order to remain in business, Dueber bought the Hampden Watch Co. Hampden produced some very fine quality watches, and introduced the first 16 size, 23 jewel movement made in America. Dueber controlled all aspects of the company from manufacturing to sales. Dueber sold the company to Walter Vrettman in Vrettman went bankrupt in and sold all of the company's equipment to Amtorg, a Russian purchasing company.
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In , Dueber, who had been making cases for the Hampden Watch Company , purchased a controlling interest in the company. About this time an anti-trust law was passed and the watch case manufacturers formed a boycott against Dueber's company. In , Dueber bought Hampden and moved both companies to a dual set of factory buildings in Canton, Ohio. By , the company was producing quality watches, and introduced the first size 16, 23 jewel movement made in America.
In , the two businesses merged to become the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company. In , John Dueber sold the company to Walter Vrettman. In , falling sales led to the company going into receivership. In , Amtorg Trading Corporation purchased the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company together with all of the manufacturing equipment, parts on hand, and work in progress, in order to build a factory in Russia.
In , the First State Watch Factory produced pocket watches that were presented at a ceremonial meeting in the Revolution Theater. The Hampden pattern watch movements were called the Type-1, easily recognized by its distinct twin finger bridge layout. As the Nazi army closed in on Moscow, during Autumn of , the factory was hurriedly evacuated to Zlatoust , where more than , Zlatoust Type-1 watches and clocks were made.
In production of these unique Type-1 ChS watches was stopped. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. American pocket watch manufacturer — Retrieved Categories : Defunct watchmaking companies Canton, Ohio. Rose Gold 1 Items 1. Silver 5 Items 5. Yellow 1 Items 1. Yellow Gold 10 Items Not Specified 58 Items Number of Jewels.
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In , Donald J. Mozart founded the company in Providence, Rhode Island. The firm manufactured time pieces. Unfortunately for Mozart, this company soon failed, but in , he reorganized the firm as the New York Watch Company, with production facilities in Springfield, Massachusetts. Three years later, the company's factory burnt to the ground. Finally, in , the company reopened, now doing business as the Hampden Watch Company.
In John C. In , Dueber, who had been making cases for the Hampden Watch Company , purchased a controlling interest in the company. About this time an anti-trust law was passed and the watch case manufacturers formed a boycott against Dueber's company. In , Dueber bought Hampden and moved both companies to a dual set of factory buildings in Canton, Ohio.
By , the company was producing quality watches, and introduced the first size 16, 23 jewel movement made in America. In , the two businesses merged to become the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company. In , John Dueber sold the company to Walter Vrettman.
In , falling sales led to the company going into receivership. In , Amtorg Trading Corporation purchased the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company together with all of the manufacturing equipment, parts on hand, and work in progress, in order to build a factory in Russia. In , the First State Watch Factory produced pocket watches that were presented at a ceremonial meeting in the Revolution Theater.
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The Dueber-Hampden Watch Company was an American watch manufacturing company. In the Dueber Watch Case Company operating in Cincinnati from bought. Hampden Dueber 14K Yellow Gold Filled Open Face Pocket Watch 17 Jewel Size £1, £ postage. 35 watching. Hampden Open Face 14K Yellow Gold. Dueber & Hampden merged. · A year after the hearings he merged the case making and watch companies as The Dueber-Hampden Watch Co., with a capital of.