Street Brothers, Marshall & Company Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Lancaster, Biographical Sketches, Page 897

STREET BROS., MARSHALL & CO., proprietors of the Lancaster Woolen Mills. 
This firm was established in May, 1880, succeeding the Lancaster Woolen Mill 
Co., by whom the mill had been built in 1869.  The present firm was organized 
with ample means.  The members are R. R. Street, J. A. Street, E. Street and H. 
L. Marshall.  This is a two-set mill with eight broad looms of the Crompton 
pattern, three of which are of new design, run by steam-power.  The factory is a 
four-story and attic frame-and-stone structure, 60x40, with office, dye-house, 
boiler-room and other necessary additions.  It has been thoroughly refitted and 
furnished with the latest improved machinery by this firm.  They employ a force 
of thirty men.  The capacity of engine is 25-horse power, and the water-power 
used in the mill is from the never-failing fountain at which most of the early 
settlers used to resort for their water - a spring of historic note.  H. L. 
Marshall, salesman for the house, has his headquarters at No. 184 Washington 
street, Chicago.  They make a specialty of fine black-worsted finish cassimere, 
and extra-fine twilled flannels, one brand of which is rarely ever made of equal 
weight in the Northwest.