WI BIO - Kenosha Co - American Brass Company
The City of Kenosha and Kenosha County, WI. Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 
1916, Vol II, pp 615-616

The American Brass Company has one of its leading branches in Kenosha, 
Kenosha County, WI, and the business constitutes one of the important 
industries of the city. Its plant covers an entire block and the building is 
largely a one-story structure of steel construction, supplied with a 
sprinkler system and other equipment that [p 616] safeguards the interests of 
the employees as well as of the concern. For a number of years the business 
was conducted under the name of the Chicago Brass Company, which in 1912 sold 
out to the American Brass Company, since which time the Kenosha, WI, 
enterprise has been known as the Kenosha branch of the American Brass 
Company. Under the corporation organization it is affiliated with the 
Ansonia Brass & Copper Works of Ansonia [New Haven County], CT, the Benedict 
and Burnham Branch at Waterbury [New Haven County], CT, the Coe Brass Works 
at Torrington [Litchfield County], CT, the Coe Brass Branch at Ansonia, CT, 
and the Waterbury Brass Branch at Waterbury, CT. The Kenosha, WI, branch 
produces brass sheets, rods, tubes, and bars. They sell to manufacturers and 
the output is sent all over the U. S. They use all raw material, converting 
it into the finished product according to most modern methods and processes. 
They employ 1,800 people, 20 percent being skilled labor, and they have 
introduced the humanitarian spirit into the management of the business, as is 
evidenced by the fact that they maintain a night school for employees. In 
volume and importance this concern ranks as one of the chief productive 
industries of Kenosha, WI, and its value to the city is indicated by the fact 
that employment is given to nearly 2,000 people. The plant is thoroughly 
equipped and the excellence of its output insures a continuance of the trade.

The officers of the Kenosha branch of the American Brass Company are George 
H. ALLEN, Vice President [see the Kenosha County, WI, biography of George H. 
ALLEN]; C. J. HACKETT, manager [see the Kenosha County, WI, biography of 
Clifford J. HACKETT]; A. H. QUIGLEY and J. R. ANDERSON, Assistant Managers 
[see the Kenosha County, WI, biographies of Arthur H. QUIGLEY and James R. 
ANDERSON]; W. D. MARTIN, Purchasing Agent and Traffic Manager [see the 
Kenosha County, WI, biography of William D. MARTIN]; and C. S. JUDD, 
Superintendent [see the Kenosha County, WI, biography of Clark S. JUDD].

Submitted by Cathy Kubly