- Business - Janesville Sesquicentennial
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- City's valuation passed $10 million back in 1908
- The city's valuation surpassed $10 million in 1908, "considerably
below the actual value."
- Janesville had 100 factories employing more than 3,000 people,
and "more in times of special activity."
- A 1908 history lists the top 15 companies - "in no attempt
to name in the order of their
- manufactured products, save that the Janesville Machine Co.
stands first" - as Janesville Machine Co.; Rock River Cotton
Co.; Janesville Barb Wire Co.; Rock County Sugar Co.; BLODGETT
Milling Co.; BASSET [BASSETT] & ECHLIN
Co., harness and saddlery; CHOATE-HOLLISTER Co.,
tables; HOUGH Shade Co., porch shades and hammocks; Peter
HOHENAEDEL Jr. Co., canning; Janesville Clothing Co.;
LEWIS Knitting Co.; New DOTY Manufacturing Co.,
punches and shears; The PARKER Pen Co.; Rock River Woolen
Mills; and THOROUGHGOOD & Co., cigar box lumber and
cigar boxes.
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