Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library

The eight folders in the collection contain correspondence from A.N. Belding and from M.M. Belding to W. P. Hetherington, their agent in Belding, MI. The letters date 1893, 1896, 1899-1903. The correspondence indicates the range of the Belding Brothers and Company interests including: Belding Building Loan Association, Belding Land Improvement Company, Hotel Belding, Citizens Electric Light Company, and other business concerns. The letters show the Belding brothers' relations with the city, their interest in city politics, as well as mill employee relations and Belding's discriminatory property leasing practices.

The Belding Brothers and Company were silk manufacturers in Rockville, CT, with additional mills in Northampton, MA, Belding, MI, San Francisco, CA, and Montreal, Canada; the brothers had extensive business interests.

1902-01-1902-06

Connecticut (state)

Silk industry
Textile industry
Connecticut--Rockville

correspondence

Hetherington, W. P.
Belding, Alvah Norton, 1838-1925
Belding, Milo Merrick, 1833-1917

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