Merrimack Utilization Company Records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 6781

Scope and Contents

The only records prior to 1930 are the financial statements. The records from the thirties provide information on ownership, business relationships with Lowell cotton mills, and the operation of a waste mill.

Dates

1917-1943

Creator

Merrimack Utilization Company (creator, Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.

Biographical / Historical

The Merrimack Utilization Company was originally established to process and sell cotton waste. In 1930 the company was reorganized under the direction of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company, Boott Miles and the Lawrence Manufacturing Company. The records indicate that the reorganization merged the Merrimack and the Northern Waste Company. The new firm was controlled by Frederick A. Flather, Ward Thoron, C. Brook Stevens and Ames Stevens. In the thirties the company employed twenty people and had sales averaging three hundred and fifty thousand dollars annually.The plant closed in 1940.

- taken from The Merrimack Valley Textile Museum: A Guide to The Manuscript Collections

Extent

3 cubic feet

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

American Textile History Museum Collection.

Processing Information

The ATHM # references the accession number given to collections by the American Textile History Museum (ATHM). These numbers have been kept and tracked for researchers looking for former citations. The ATHM accession number for this collection was 0022.113. When the materials had been processed by the ATHM, we kept the records in the original order but sometimes the box and folders numbers will change. The old numbers appear in the processing note, the box and folder are the numbers that immediately follow the accession number. For instance, the number 0022.113.1.3, would indicate that the material was formerly in Box 1, Folder 3.