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Company history:
Started in 1894 by William Wallace Putnam in a back room with two
employees. Putnam, a native of Brattleboro, VT, had previously worked for
Estey, then spent nine years with Bell Organ & Piano Co. in Guelph,
Ontario. Later Herbert E. Fox, also of Brattleboro, became a partner. Fox
had also worked for Estey and had been a partner in Bell Organ & Piano
Co. Later became W.W. Putnam Co., Inc., and between 1920 and 1925 was
absorbed by the Basic Furniture Co. of Waynesboro, VA. |

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