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Brandt-Dent Co
416-422 S. First
c.1897
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EDWARD J. BRANDT AND ROBERT DENT
Originally made brass light fixtures
Built in 1893
1898
11 02 THE
"BRANDT AUTOMATIC CASHIER" INTRODUCED
The "Brandt Automatic
Cashier," manufactured by the Edward J. Brandt-Dent Company, has been
introduced in to the business world from Maine to California and is in big
demand. Mr. Brandt informs us that
twenty of the cashiers are in use in the post office at Boston, Mass., and are
giving perfect satisfaction.
1901
12 14 THE
"BRANDT AUTOMATIC CASHIER" SELLING WELL
Overtime is the rule now at the Edward
J. Brandt-Dent company’s plant on First Street.
It is compelled to do this in order in order to fill the increasing
demand for the goods, which are shipped all over the country. Among the recent sales were thirteen “Brandt
Automatic Cashiers' to a firm in Newark, New Jersey. Other sales of from one to three
“cashiers" were made during the past week to firms in Buffalo and
Rochester, New York; Providence, Woonsocket and Pawtucket, Rhode Island; Waco,
Texas; Brocton. Massachusetts. A large
New York firm is contemplating the purchase of certain “cashiers.” WDT
1902
BRANDT-DENT COMPANY
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1907
05 05 CASHIERS SURVIVE
The Edward J. Brandt-Dent Co. recently
received two Brandt Automatic Cashiers, which had been used by the Westinghouse
Co., in the Pittsburg district which was recently flooded. These cashiers were covered with a deposit of
yellow mud. They had certainly been
submerged by the flood but were otherwise little the worse for their
experience.
12 18 Owing to the development of the two
branches of the business for years conducted by the Edward J. Brandt-Dent
Company each branch being entirely different from the other, the business has
been divided into two corporations ... The corporation name is now the Brandt
Cashier Manufacturing Company . . . and this corporation continues the
manufacture for the Brandt automatic cashiers for the United States and Canada
. . . The two local corporations will be conducted separately, but they will be
practically under the same management . . . The gas fixture branch of the
business will be conducted by the newly incorporated Brandt-Dent company. The officers remain the same.
12 26 COMPANY CENSUS
Brandt-Dent has inaugurated and carried out a novel scheme - that of taking a census of their employees. The figures show that the number of employees have gradually increased from seven to sixty. The census of the local concern also shows that the labor employed has worked on an average of full time the past seventeen years. The employees and members of their families number one hundred and twenty-five. That number however does not include the sales force and office help.
01
22 EDWARD BRANDT SOLD INTEREST
Edward J.
Brandt has sold his interest in the gas fixture department of the Brandt-Dent
Co. to Robert Dent and Gabriel B. Levy of Boston,
a well-known chandelier manufacturer and several other eastern men. They have organized a company with a capital
of $60,000 and will manufacture gas fixtures and chandeliers in the William Gorder building
in [416-420 S.] First Street, formerly occupied by the M. D. Wells Co. This will be another fine addition to the
manufacturing interests of Watertown. At
least 75 hands will be employed, many of them skilled mechanics. Manufacture Gas Fixtures, Fittings and
Chandeliers WG
1910
06 17 BRANDT-DENT FIRE
At 12:30 o'clock Sunday morning the fire department was called to the Brandt-Dent factory in First Street, and by the prompt work of the fire department, the building was damaged to the extent of only about $200. There was no damage to stock. The origin of the fire is a mystery, as there was no fire of any kind in the building after 12 o'clock noon on Saturday.
On Tuesday chief of the fire department, John Glaser, received a check for $25 from the Brandt-Dent Co. for the fire department in appreciation of the good work done by the department at the fire, and the boys wish to extend their thanks for the same. WG
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In front of
Brandt-Dent Co., 416-422 South First Street
Cross References:
1902, from Picturesque Watertown booklet
1910, Gas and electric fixtures, calendar postcard
1913, 416-422 S First, gas & electric light fixture mfgs
History of Watertown,
Wisconsin