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The making of Made in Fall River
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Who's Who?
People who make, and have made, Fall River manufacturing what it is today.
George Matouk
Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:35 — The Herald NewsGeorge Matouk is president of John Matouk & Co., Inc.
Sean Burke
Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:33 — The Herald News
Sean Burke is the publisher of GateHouse Media New England’s Fall River operations, including the daily The Herald News and Herald News.com as well as the weekly O Jornal, O Jornal Brasiliero and El Latino Expreso.
Daniel Bogan
Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:30 — The Herald News
Daniel Bogan is President and CEO of Borden & Remington Corp.
Daniel Bogan was born and raised in Fall River and is a graduate of B.M.C. Durfee High School and Southeastern Massachusetts University, now the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Alain Duval
Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:28 — The Herald News
Alain Duval is Victor Innovatex CEO. Duval oversees the Canadian textile manufacturer that acquired a large piece of the bankrupt Quaker Fabric empire in 2007.
Colonel Richard Borden
Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:26 — The Herald News
One of the great-great-great-grandfathers of Fall River industry, Colonel Richard Borden was born in 1795 and by 1812 was running a grist mill on the falls of the Quequechan River.
Robert Knight Remington
Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:24 — The Herald News
Robert Knight Remington was born in 1826, and would start the grocery store that became the mill supply company that became today’s Borden & Remington chemical company.
William C. Davol
Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:22 — The Herald News
William C. Davol was the third in the 19th century triumvirate of Hawes, Davol and Marvel and the inventor of the three.
William Hawes
Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:18 — The Herald News
William Hawes learned his trade in the machine shop of Hawes, Marvel & Davol, owned in part by his father. In 1857, at age 24, he left to start the Hawes Machine Company. The firm bought and sold all kinds of industrial machinery.
William Marvel
Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:16 — The Herald News
William Marvel was born in 1800 in Swansea. Over the years, William Marvel would work as a shoe maker and would spend one season netting shad and herring in Taunton.
William Prosser
Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:14 — The Herald NewsIn 1909, 25 workers were sawing, cutting and shaping wood at 943 Pleasant St. and they were doing it for William Prosser, owner of Wm. Prosser & Son, the firm his British immigrant father started.
Fall River's grandfathers of manufacturing
Fri, 09/12/2008 - 12:54 — The Herald NewsIt is fashionable to joke that in America, “we don’t make anything anymore.”
But in Fall River, not only are there companies making things, there are companies that have been making things for a long time, companies that have stayed afloat through every variety of recession and depression.
