The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation
Arthur Gilman, Ed.

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[394] 1854 by Tyler and Otis Howe, father and son. The elder Howe died in 1880, and the business was continued by his son until his death in 1891. It was then purchased by Melvin M. Hannum, the present owner. Three floors of a brick building eighty feet by forty are occupied in the manufacture of spring-beds, cots, and berth bottoms. The product is sold over the United States, with some exports to England.

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Revere Sugar Refinery.

The Revere Sugar Refinery, situated between the Boston & Lowell Railroad and Miller's River, East Cambridge, began operations in 1871. They occupy an extensive building of six stories, and employ directly about one hundred and thirty men, with an annual pay-roll of one hundred thousand dollars. They also furnish steady work to a considerable number of coopers and teamsters. The daily capacity of the works is about fourteen hundred barrels of refined sugar.

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Jerome Marble & Co.

This company manufactures oils, starches, dye-stuffs and chemicals, and is located on Fifth Street, corner of Rogers, Cambridgeport. The firm is sole agent for the National Linseed Oil Company, and has Boston offices at 42 Pearl Street.

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A. & E. Burton & Co.

This business was established in 1844 by Harvey & Burton, and is located at Nos. 122 and 124 Harvard Street, Cambridgeport. They manufacture brushes and feather dusters to the value of two hundred thousand dollars annually, and employ from seventy-five to one hundred hands.

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James A. Furfey,

manufacturer of cocoa mats and matting, is the successor of the business of James Furfey, which was established in 1848. Factory and office, Brookline and Erie streets, Cambridgeport.

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F. M. Eaton,

No. 351 Broadway, makes bristle brushes and corn brooms.

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Join C. Dow & Co.

are manufacturers of fertilizers, and their factory is located on Portland Street, East Cambridge. Boston office, 13 Chatham Street.

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C. W. H. Moulton & Co.,

Gore Street, East Cambridge, claim the honor of being the oldest ladder manufactory in America. Their product is extension ladders, step ladders, trestles, clothes horses, lawn settees, splint and reed chairs.

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