Michael LaRonge wrote: > I was just rooting through articles and such in order to find out when the >Russell & Erwin Hardware Co. started up. I have refered to the reports by >Debi Hacker-Norton & Michael Trinkley, but unless I missed it I didn't find >what I was looking for. > Anyone out there know when the company was started? Thanks in advance for >any resource and/or suggestions. There must be a company history out there somewhere, and perhaps these pages will give you a good lead to it. In a matter of 20 seconds I found out that R&E was founded in 1851 in New Haven CT: http://users.ntplx.net/~nbv/history.htm also: With 15 minutes on the internet, a simple search on the internet through http://www.google.com, produced: http://www.antiquesalberta.com/thompsonsgazette/story2.htm http://www.eddonaldson.com/rimloc23.htm http://www.eddonaldson.com/lock1.htm http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/events/garden/eseed4-2.htm http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/slv/latrobe/tradecat.htm (has Bussell in stead of Russell) http://www.krause.com/corner/corner990521.html http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1980/cthistory/80.ch.10.x.html http://www.marcelduchamp.org/ImpossibleBed/PartI/illus14C.html http://www.prginc.com/pub-index/reference.html http://www.ballandball-us.com/lockhistory.html http://www.reedfarmstead.com/html/references.htm even the SAA uses R&E! http://www.saa.org/Publications/StyleGuide/stygu3_9.html Their former factory, which was proposed to be an artists colony, was destroyed by an arson fire on October 9, 1999 http://www.ctcentral.com/jrc-core/papers/news_search_result_view.cfm?article _id=NB022722009&paper_id=2&time=thirty Nowadays he's making music http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/78/russell_erwin.html Dan W.
