Company ProfileThe Company was named after Stanley H. Wheelock who had helped his father to organize the new company in 1905, the Wheelock family having run the mill (1883-1905) as the Calumet Woolen Company. The Stanley Woolen Company was incorporated in 1905, being the first American mill to fully manufacture woolen garments - mainly men's wear for the domestic market and to go on through the Great Depression and in later years to produce cloth for famous names such as Pierre Cardin and many more, it was finally lost through bankruptcy in 1989 and closed forever. Records and much other information has been transfered to Lowell for safe keeping well before they were lost to time alone. The previous name was the Luke Taft mill, first organized in 1833.Stanley Woolen Company was active, since at least 1960, in NTA's Wool Manufacturers Council. |