I earlier wrote:FWIW, no less an authority than Martin J.
Donnelly professes to not know much about the Lakeside Saw &
Tool Co. of Chicago, except that it "sure wasn't the Montgomery
Ward 'Lakeside' line":
<http://www.mjdtools.com/tools/list_0149/121883.htm>
> On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Wiktor Kuc wrote:
>> The Iron Trade Review, February 13, 1908: The Lakeside Saw & Tool
>> Co., 120 Michigan avenue, Chicago, to>> manufacture tools and
>> hardware appliances, has been incorporated by J. F.
> McFadden, J.K. Mayne and George R. Dugan with $1,000 capital stock.
On Jan 1, 2012, at 10:14 PM, Kirk Eppler wrote:
> Lakeside Saw & Tool was listed at 618 W Chicago Avenue, Chicago
> Checking on that address, it as later listed as MW corporate
> headquarters in 1935 according to Chain Store Age. And going even
> further back, MW is listed at 111 to 120 Michigan Ave Chicago in an
> 1897 publication. Libraries: a monthly review of library matters and
> methods, Volume 2. Hmm, maybe they were only a shell company the
> whole time?
I think we're getting warm, maybe even hot. This MW in-house publication
from 1904:
<http://books.google.com/books?id=bHxIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=J.-
+F.+McFadden+Montgomery+Ward&source=bl&ots=5j_AhfeGAy&sig=Zi6HSen_NfC0A-
uQ9wdTuOTjC7TU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tl0BT72oEuGUiQKC8Z2FDQ&sqi=2&ved=0CCEQ6AEw-
AA#v=onepage&q=J.%20F.%20McFadden%20Montgomery%20Ward&f=false>
lists J. F. McFadden on p. 369 as "manager of the Bookkeepers" at
Montgomery Ward, with 11 years service as of 1904; and on p. 177 J.K.
Mayne appears, with 14 years service, "Manager of the Correspondence and
Typewriting division." No Dugan appears in this 1904 publication, but
the ID of McFadden and Mayne (whose previous career track was pretty far
from tool manufacturing), and the location info Kirk unearthed, surely
point to MW setting up Lakeside Saw & Tool as a wholly owned subsidiary,
using some of its own trusty employees as officers of record. I guess
all that's left is to let Martin know that Lakeside Saw & Tool and
Montgomery Ward: all same no difference. Tom Holloway
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