 Abt 1811 - 1868 (57 years)
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| Name |
William H. Honey [1, 2] |
| Born |
Abt 1811 |
NH  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1868 |
Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA |
| Person ID |
I1468 |
Paul's Tree |
| Last Modified |
2 Jul 2018 |
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 | Died - 1868 - Fond du Lac, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, USA |
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| Notes |
- Copied from Manitowoc Co. WI site on rootsweb:
WILLIAM HONEY
from the Manitowoc Co. Tribune
July 19, 1877
DIED:
HONEY.---On Saturday July 14, 1877, in the town of Gibson, Manitowoc
county, after a long sickness, Mr. WM. B. D. HONEY, in the 74th year of
his age.
Mr. Honey was one of the oldest settlers in Manitowoc county and was widely
known all over the county. (His stone is no longer in the cemetery.)
From "Early Days in Two Rivers, WII" Arthur Lohman, 1909
Chapter VII - THE CHAIR FACTORY
But it was its woodworking industries that was to give the settlement its
permanency and make it known from one end of the land to the other and for
that matter throughout the civilized world in time. It was the timber and
saw mills that paved the way for the first woodworking manufacturers and
it was these early beginnings on which the foundation of the city of today
was gradually built.
But before we proceed it might be well to make the point that long before
ever white man set his foot on these grounds, Two Rivers had been a manu-
facturing site. On the French or east side the piles of flint chips broken
or chipped from flint rocks as they were being shaped into arrows and other
stone implements are abundant evidence that here was the site of an ancient
industry. Mingled with the piles of chips of all sizes and colors, arrow
heads, some perfect, some broken in the course of manufacture can be found.
Besides this, fragments of pottery and the bones of the dead give mute
evidence that a permanent site of abode existed here for years before the
advent of the white man. But it is with the modern settlement that we are
dealing. Up to this time, viz.: 1850, there were no manufacturing industries
here except that in a sense saw mills might come under that classification.
But no finished goods were made here and the saw mills would only forshadow
the end unless manufacturing institutions located here.
Through the assistance of Mr. C.H. Albers who was the first superintendent
of the pail factory here, we were enabled to obtain a great deal of infor-
mation relative to the first woodworking industry here, this being the
manufacture of chairs by the New England Mfg. Co.
The following items relative to the chair factory were obtained from Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Jennison, of Omaha, Neb., a daughter of the first superintendent,
William Honey (photo). This Wm. Honey was murdered at Fond du Lac, Wis., in the
Winter of 1868, where he was then engaged in the poultry business. His
widow is now living in Omaha at the age of 95 years, and in the enjoyment
of fair health and all of her faculties, excepting being nearly blind.
The chair factory was built in the Summer of 1856 by the New England Mfg.
Co. The company was composed of Aldrich Smith & Co. of Two Rivers, Wm.
Honey, Thomas Burns, Charles Jennison, and probably Alanson Hall of Massa-
chusetts. Mr. Honey was superintendent of the sawing out of the stock and
the preparation of the stock for use, Charles Jennison of the chair and
furniture making, and Thomas Burns of the painting and finishing of the
manufactured articles, and Mr. Hall worked at painting in the factory.
Mr. Jennison gave up the superintendency of the chair making department
in 1858 or 59 and was succeeded by Wm. Johnson. The hard times of 1857
and 58 were disastrous to the New England Mfg. Co. and the property came into
the hands of Aldrich, Smith & Co. and their successors. In 1859 John N. Burns
(a son of Thomas Burns), rented the property and assumed the operation of the
factory. Mr. Geo. Simonds of Newbury, Ohio, succeeded Mr. Johnson as superin-
tendent of the chair making department. John H. Burns operated the works until
after 1862 and it was operated by Joseph Mann (photo) soon after he came to Two Rivers.
Mr. Honey remained with the factory until about 1864. Mr. J.B. Lord of
Gardner, Mass., writes as follows: "I arrived in Two Rivers in the month of
September, 1856, the chair factory buildings being built and most of the
machinery installed. The engine was made in Fitchburg, Mass., and was shipped
to Two Rivers by propeller from Buffalo late in the Fall of 1856, but was
caught at Mackinaw in the ice and did not arrive at its destination until
early in the Spring of 1857.
When part of the machinery was in running order, Geo. W. Honey (a son of
Wm. Honey), and myself made, partly by hand, the first chairs, some office
chairs for the Lake House."
Geo. W. Honey is now holding some U.S. Government position in Washington,
D.C., and Mr. Lord is employed in one of the large chair factories in
Gardner, Mass., to which city he went immediately after the close of the
war, he having been a member of the 27th Wis. Regiment, in which he enlisted
in 1862.
1860 WI Census Manitowoc, Two Rivers Ward 2
William H Honey 46 M Chairmaker NH
Martha A. 45 F NY
Lizzie A. 23 F Mass
Carrie A. 21 F Maine
Albert A. 10 M Mass
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- [S333] 1860 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Database online. Year: 1860; Census Place: Two Rivers Ward 2, Manitowoc, Wisconsin; Roll: ; Page: 870; Image: 548.
Record for William H Honey
- [S382] 1840 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Database online. Year: 1840; Census Place: Augusta, Kennebec, Maine; Roll: ; Page: .
Record for William H Honey
- [S26] "Lowell Journel" 1/30/1832.
Married, In this town on Monday 23d January by Rev. John McLeish Mr. William Honey to Miss Martha Ann Brown, both of Lowell
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