Factory Complex

ID: 1994 ~ Source:

"Through South Bend Industries," September 1, 1916, South Bend Today, p. 7. https://michianamemory.sjcpl.org/digital/collection/p16827coll8/id/5531/rec/18

 ~ Creator: South Bend Today ~ Date: 1 September, 1916
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Factory Complex

By 1916, the Stephenson Underwear Mills occupied a sizable factory complex adjacent to the St. Joseph River.

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By Jacqueline Lopez
Origin of the Mills Although South Bend citizens remembers the Stephenson Underwear Mills as men’s and women’s underwear makers, the company started as a wool mill. In 1855, Alexander C. “A.C.” Staley and Jeremiah Sowry started milling wool --…