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Beloved son of the late Anton and Catherine Hartman Siebert. Brother of Joseph Siebert.
Feb 13, 2015 · Try searching the Siebert Collection and see what you can find! Partial record of arrivals and departures of fugitive slaves during a two-week period in 1847 by David Putnam Jr. of Harrison County, Ohio, via the Siebert Collection. In addition to individual accounts of UGRR activity, the collection includes photographs, maps, newspaper articles ...
- Wide-Open Capitalism
- China's Economic System Rewards Business Hustle
- The Consumer Doesn't Care Where It's Made
- U.S. Wood Goes to China, Returns as Furniture
- Importing to Survive
- A Success Story
- A Quiet, Tearful End
As he broke the news in June of the planned shutdown, Joseph Richardson III — "Joe Three" to friends and employees of one of Wisconsin's oldest family-run businesses — wept. He was standing in the municipal building in Sheboygan Falls — his town, a town his family had helped build. Now he was telling employees the company no longer would make its f...
Daniel Lim gushes about his employees. They live, all 600 of them, in Lim's dormitory, start each day at 7:20 a.m. with group calisthenics in the asphalt courtyard, and are eager to work. Ask for volunteers to do any job, Lim said, and hands shoot up. "Nothing," he said, "is impossible in China. Everything is possible." His S.V. International Corp....
Richardson Brothers has agrarian roots, too. The first Joseph Richardson, according to a published company history, was a farmer before he founded the J. Richardson Sawmill in Sheboygan Falls in 1848. His transition mirrors the one going on in China now. When he went into manufacturing, more than half of all Americans worked on farms; today the fig...
The average production worker at Richardson Brothers, Tayloe said, made $13.30 an hour — not including health insurance, a pension plan and other benefits. And that's in a county where two out of every five workers are employed at a factory, about three times the national average. Furniture-factory labor in China, benefits included, runs at 50 cent...
In Wisconsin, Leon Wilkosz of Schweiger furniture buys pre-carved, pre-lacquered parts directly from the Lim plant and uses them as exposed-wood adornments on couches that his Wisconsin workers assemble and upholster. Schweiger, a division of KCS Inc., occupies a cavernous 580,000-square-foot plant on the south side of Jefferson. In 1997, when Wilk...
Like Schweiger, some U.S. furniture-makers are riding the tide, not drowning. And some, such as Wisconsin's Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. — one of the country's largest furniture importers — have thrived. Ashley, the third-largest furniture-maker in the country, is a model for success in blending U.S. and Asian manufacturing. Based in the small,...
For most Richardson Brothers employees, the end came on a cold, rainy December morning. They reported in at their usual times — some at 5:45 a.m., some at 6. There was little to do but hear, as they had expected, that their jobs were being eliminated that day. Some hugged, some cried and some tidied things up a bit. Mostly, though, they just stood ...
Mar 6, 2024 · Serlins. London; furniture makers (fl. 1905-77) The four Serlin brothers arrived in London from Poland in the first decade of the twentieth century; Reuben in 1905, Lazarus in 1906, Joseph in 1908 and Gershon (later known as George) in 1910. They were a close-knit family and all worked together from 1910-14.
May 10, 2012 · Mary May and Isaac Davenport’s eldest daughter Mary (1795–1843) married Joseph Henshaw Hayward (1789–1853) on October 24, 1816. The son of Lemuel Hayward, a physician of Revolutionary War-era fame, Joseph descended from an upper echelon of Boston society and was accustomed to luxurious possessions.
JOSEPH CHARLES SEIBERT Even casual acquaintances of Joe Seibert remembered his smile. His many friends knew what that smile stood for - a warm, kind, gentle, compassionate, and courageous man. His passing on February 8, 1993 was a great loss to us all. Joe was born in Lakewood, Ohio on March 6, 1910. He was a member of the second class
Mar 14, 2011 · Fred Taylor is a antique furniture Worthologist who specializes in American furniture from the Late Classicism period (1830-1850). ———————————. Send your comments, questions and pictures to me at PO Box 215, Crystal River, FL 34423 or info@furnituredetective.com. Visit Fred’s website at www.furnituredetective.com.
