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Brandt-Dent Co
416-422 S First
1907
12 18 Owing to the development of the two
branches of the business for years conducted by the Edward J. Brandt-Dent Company
each branch being entirely different from the other, the business has been
divided into two corporations ... The corporation name is now the Brandt Cashier Manufacturing Company
... and this corporation continues the manufacture for the Brandt automatic
cashiers for the United States and Canada . . . The two local corporations will
be conducted separately, but they will be practically under the same management
. . . The gas fixture branch of the business will be conducted by the newly
incorporated Brandt-Dent company. The
officers remain the same.
12 26 Brandt-Dent has inaugurated and carried out a novel scheme - that of taking a census of their employees. The figures show that the number of employees have gradually increased from seven to sixty. The census of the local concern also shows that the labor employed has worked on an average of full time the past seventeen years. The employees and members of their families number one hundred and twenty-five. That number however does not include the sales force and office help.
01 22 Edward J.
Brandt has sold his interest in the gas fixture department of the Brandt-Dent
Co. to Robert Dent and Gabriel B. Levy of Boston, a well-known chandelier
manufacturer and several other eastern men.
They have organized a company with a capital of $60,000 and will
manufacture gas fixtures and chandeliers in the William
Gorder building in [416-420 S.] First Street, formerly occupied by the M. D. Wells Co. This will be another fine addition to the
manufacturing interests of Watertown. At
least 75 hands will be employed, many of them skilled mechanics. Manufacture Gas Fixtures, Fittings and Chandeliers WG
1910
06 17 Fire department called to Brandt-Dent
factory in First St WG
Cross References:
1902, from Picturesque Watertown booklet
1910, Gas and electric fixtures, calender postcard
1913, 416-422 S First, gas & electric light fixture mfgs
