The group identified by the 1906 book as the company founders, reproduced from a photograph it dates to about 1852.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Public Domain Mark 1.0. circa 1852, according to the 1906 printed caption. Selected crop; complete page is available at the original source. Historical book scan; minor source clipping, uneven margins and halftone texture retained. Full page preserved separately. Selected image visually inspected; objects and principal reading text upright. No generated, colorized, or reconstructed content.
Source: Charles Bancroft Gillespie and George Munson Curtis; Journal Publishing Co., Meriden; A Century of Meriden: The Silver City, part III; New York Public Library; digitized by Google; Internet Archive
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36 A CKNTL'RV OF MKRIDKX. Co. are in full operation to-day. The ofticcrs of the company are : Samuel Docld, president ; George H. Wilcox, first vice-president; (ieorjfe C. Edwards, second vice-pres- ident : Charles A. Hamilton, third vice- president ; George M. Curtis, treas- urer; George Rockwell, secretary. never actively connected with the com- pany and resigned the office in July. HJOO. The directors of the company are Samuel Dodd, George H. Wilcox, George C. Edwards, Charles A. Ham- ilton, George M. Curtis, George Rockwell, C. H. Tibbits, Samuel L f * f 1 H. C. Wilcox. I. r. Lewis. Geo. It. Curtis. D. C. Wilcox. John Munson. L. .1. Curtis. Samuel SimpHon. W. W. Lyman. W. H. John^a. |-(»1'M)I:K.>< of tmk .mekimkn iirit.xnxia to. Krom n photo tuken about 1H52. These officers with one exception arc the same as were elected at the organization of the company. The late General Samuel Thomas, of Xew York, was elected treasurer when the comi)any was organized, hut was liarbonr, C. E. Brecken ridge. C. Ber- ry Peets, Fred P. Wilcox, Andrew .Vndrews and Watson J. Miller. A brief sketch of this line of man- ufacture in Meriden previous to the formation of any of these companies, Digitized by Google
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Silent Grounds Collective, Meriden Britannia Company, SGC-MBR-007, MBR-001, “Founders of the Meriden Britannia Company.” Source: Charles Bancroft Gillespie and George Munson Curtis; Journal Publishing Co., Meriden; A Century of Meriden: The Silver City, part III; New York Public Library; digitized by Google; Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_-zQWAAAAYAAJ/page/n1094/mode/1up. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-08.