Dodd &
Co.
-- Hatters
From: Cincinnati 1851; Charles Cist;
pub. 1851
From the personal collection of
Patti
Graman
Chapter XIII. Manufactures and
Industrial
Products; page 212
Hats.
Forty factories.-Three hundred and sixty-seven hands; value of product,
four hundred and forty-five thousand dollars; raw material, 30 per
cent.
There was a period, when, if one of our citizens wanted a fine hat,
Platt
Evans was commissioned to buy it in New York or Philadelphia;
nothing
but cheap hats being at that time made here. Dodd, on Main
Street,
was the first to engage in the enterprise of manufacturing hats of a
quality
which should supersede the hats made in the eastern cities, and now the
fine hats for the entire market of the west, are made here by Dodd
&
Co., L. H. Baker & Co., C. B. Camp, Bates & Whitcher, and
Sherwood
& Chase.
There are others who make hats, but on a limited scale of
operations.
There are no low-priced hats made here of late years.
Dodd & Co., employ from twenty to forty hands, according to the
season,
and manufacture to the value of sixty-seven thousand dollars.
Baker & Co., make silk and fur hats, two hundred and fifty per
week.
They work twenty hands on an average.
C. B. Camp, employs eighteen hands at an average, and manufactures fine
hats to the value of forty thousand dollars.
All those who are largely in this business, also sell the common
article
made at the east. The sales at our principal hat stores,
including
those of their own manufacture, range from one hundred thousand to two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars each.
Hat-Block Factory.
William H. Carver, south side Pearl, between Vine and Race. Four
hands; value of product, four thousand five hundred dollars; of raw
material,
10 per cent.
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