English: The Weed Sewing Machine Company was the site of a sewing machine company, the Sharps' Rifle Company, and A.A. Pope's bicycle company. Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Connecticut.

Identifier: hartfordconnasma00hart (find matches)
Title: Hartford, Conn., as a manufacturing, business and commercial center; with brief sketches of its history, attractions, leading industries, and institutions ..
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hartford (Conn.). Board of Trade
Subjects: Hartford (Conn.) -- Commerce Hartford (Conn.) -- Industries Hartford (Conn.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Board of Trade
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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ntrol-ling the patents (first formed in West Winsted, Conn., Feb. 4, 1863)moved to Hartford in July, 1865, and reorganized with Jonathan S.Niles as president, George M. Welch as secretary and treasurer, andGeorge A. Fairfield as superintendent. A contract for building 15,000machines was then placed with Pratt, Whitney & Co., who were locatedin Woods Building, near the junction of Main and Grove streets. Itis quite probable that this order had a part in influencing the firmto erect a factory of their own during the year. In May, 1886, asecond large contract for machines was entered into with the sameparties, reinforced by George A. Fairfield and Charles E. Billings.Succeeding Mr. Niles, Homer Blanchard was president from 1867 toAugust, 1876; George A. Fairfield from August, 1876, to July, 1881;J. W. Beach from July, 1881, to 1887; and on the death of Mr.) leach, George H. Day, the treasurer, was elected president also. In May, 1869, a Part OI trie present property on Capitol avenue
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114 THE CITY 0F HARTFORD, COXX. was purchased of E. M. Archibald, agent for the British government.Owing to the great popularity of the Weed machine, and to the in-creasing volume of orders, Sharps Rifle Factory adjoining was leased,in 1871, for a term of five years, and purchased in 1874. In the special line on which the company began, it has kept fullyabreast of the times by the number and value of its improvementsand inventions. While the name remains to perpetuate the fame ofthe founder, not a feature of the original machine is retained. Thesecond combination of contrivances have largely followed the first, aswill the present when anything better can be found to take theirplace. As a result of ceaseless efforts to produce the best, the de-mand from all quarters of the globe continues. Ten years ago ormore, intensity of competition led the trade generally to adopt theinstallment plan in distributing their goods, and, with hardly an ex-ception, manufacturers suffered heavily from th

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