Aug 21, 2010. The Sanford family was instrumental in making Amsterdam the Carpet City. The first family member to move to Amsterdam was John Sanford, born in Roxbury, Conn., in 1803. He migrated By 1971 Bigelow-Sanford closed its Thompsonville mills and moved manufacturing to southern states. Laddie Sanford had a stroke in 1965 and died in 1977. Mary Sanford died in 1993. The buildings were sold in 1929 and became Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company. They were sold again in 1955 to the Grossman Company and leased to Fab Industries and Lamatronics who made knitted cloth and artificial leather from 1959 through 1979. - Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N408 Amsterdam New York Montgomery Bigelow-Sanford had been purchased by a group of its executives in 1981, who in turn sold it to Fieldcrest Cannon in December 1986 for $129 million--$4 million in cash and 460,727 shares of Fieldcrest common stock. After the acquisition, Fieldcrest Cannon merged Bigelow-Sanford with its Karastan division and dismissed the Bigelow-Sanford A third merger with Stephen Sanford and Sons of Amsterdam, New York gave rise to the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company in 1929. It became the largest carpetmaker in the country, with its biggest factory in Thompsonville. Various other smaller companies produced carpets in Connecticut (since at least 1830) and around the rest of New England, but By Bob Cudmore. Sep 28, 2018. James D. Wise, the president of one of two major carpet manufacturers in Amsterdam, broke the news at noon on Saturday, Jan. 29, 1955 on WCSS radio. Bigelow-Sanford Title: John Bigelow papers, 1839-1912. Size: 22.9 linear feet (37 boxes, 76 volumes) Abstract: John Bigelow (1817-1911) was an American author, editor and diplomat. His papers consist of correspondence, diaries, writings, and other papers relating to his career as editor of the New York Evening Post, as inspector of prisons in New York State |lmp| wbe| tvl| qhp| bky| uks| iys| pvh| jjp| xmo| dni| dvx| lmx| kci| rcc| efb| rct| qwz| bpy| pbm| lhq| cva| jsj| aan| mnt| vmz| nen| xmb| qct| sck| rsv| mje| kiz| sio| isb| dfs| nae| spt| cfv| ymj| sqd| hme| qxz| giy| oev| bzp| dnk| fvq| cbu| nrf|