Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company (Providence, R.I.) (Corporate Name)

NUCMC data from Rhode Island Historical Society for Chafee, Z. Family papers, 1830-1944 (Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company; Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Company; Providence, R.I.)

Biog., hist. of manufacturers and businessmen of R.I., 1901: p. 11, etc. (Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company; Providence, R.I.; manufacturers of various types of machinery; formed 1853 as J.R. Brown & Sharpe; inc. as Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. in 1868)

A Brown & Sharpe catalogue collection, ... c1997: p. iii (in 1866, J.R. Brown & Sharpe arranged a joint venture with Samuel Darling, a competitor in Bangor, Maine since l852; the new firm was org. as Darling, Brown & Sharpe; continued operation in Bangor until 1868 when it moved to Providence; shared factory space with Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co.; Darling, Brown & Sharpe operated as a separate co. until Darling sold out to Brown & Sharpe in 1892)