History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) (1922)
Boston : Frank P. Bennett · leaf 238
e firm became the Monnerc of the Cheney Mills. An inven-tion of supreme consequence to the silkindustry, and incidentally to cotton andwool makers, emanated from the CheneyMills in 1882. It was the Grant reel,named for its inventor who had been em-ployed in ttie mills from 1 840, and it sim-plified… … Plant of Cheney Brothers, South Manchester, Connecticut Cheney Brothers Silk Manufacturing Com-pany, and the capital stock was increasedin 1855 to $^00,000. The weaving ofribbons and of grosgrains w^ere importantadditions to the firms production duringthe sixties. Separate spinning mills wereadded…
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