Young Alfred P. Stevenson, Esq., must’ve thought he’d be set for life. His uncle, the ‘John’ of John G. Baker Company, ushered him straight out of law school into a job at the family firm. Baker’s Wilmington, DE company, founded in 1867, was young and on a meteoric rise in the morocco leather finishing industry. …
The Wilmington Whaling Company (1833-1846) was the only venture of its kind ever launched in Delaware, and one of the very few outside New England. The company was founded in late 1833 with a capital stock of $100,000. In May 1934 Captain Richard Weeden headed out from Wilmington on the Ceres, “completely furnished for a…
It is now and has been for a long time America’s leading producer of matches, producing some twelve billion a year. But do you know why Diamond matches are called that? In 1853, Edward Tatnall opened a small sulfur match factory along Wilmington, DE’s Brandywine Creek. The sulfur match of that era was incredibly unstable…
