Hopedale Machine Company The area that eventually became the main plant of Draper Corporation was home to a number of companies in the mid 1800s. These photos show the Hopedale Machine Company. It was started in 1856 by Ebenezer and George Draper, when they pulled their stock out of the Hopedale Community. Joseph Bancroft was the superintendent. Other companies operating in this area at different times included E.D. and George Draper, the Hopedale Furnace Company, the Hopedale Machine Screw Company, the Northrop Loom Company, George Draper and Sons, the Dutcher Temple Company, the Sawyer Spindle Company and the Hopedale Elastic Goods Company. (Later the Lapworth Elastic Fabric Co. in Milford.) (William Lapworth) By 1898 these (other than Elastic Fabric, I presume) had all been absorbed by the Draper Company, which in 1916 reorganized as the Draper Corporation.
Manufacturing Company. That was established as a result of the Draper family feud, which began when General Draper's brothers, Eben and George Albert, removed him as president of the Draper Company. The general died in 1910, and the Hopedale Manufacturing Company was established under that name in 1912. It was operated by his sons, Charles Roper was involved with it, and Jonas Northrop was president during at least part of its existence. Draper Menu HOME . |
Thanks to Peter Metzke for sending this. |