Manchester's Shoe Industry

Manchester's Shoe Industry

By Kelly Kilcrease and Yvette Lazdowski

Famous for its dominance in textile production, Manchester was also affectionately called "Shoe City. " More than seventy different shoe companies once called Manchester home, and thousands of area residents worked tirelessly to produce some of the best-known shoes in America and throughout the world. The largest manufacturers were the F.

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Publisher: History Press
Publish Date: 08/05/2019
Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781467141420
ISBN-10: 1467141429
Language: English

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Famous for its dominance in textile production, Manchester was also affectionately called Shoe City. More than seventy different shoe companies once called Manchester home, and thousands of area residents worked tirelessly to produce some of the best-known shoes in America and throughout the world. The largest manufacturers were the F.M. Hoyt Shoe Company, maker of Beacon Shoes, and the granddaddy of them all, the McElwain Company, known for its popular brands, including the iconic Thom McAn shoes. Authors Kelly Kilcrease and Yvette Lazdowski reveal how these and other Manchester-based shoe shops were vital to the area's economic and employment prosperity, especially among the immigrant population, as well as how the McElwain Company was an integral part of the Melville Corporation, known today as CVS.

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Kelly Kilcrease has had a passion for history since his time in grade school drawing the maps from famous battles of the Napoleonic Wars and the American Revolution.

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Kelly Kilcrease has had a passion for history since his time in grade school drawing the maps from famous battles of the Napoleonic Wars and the American Revolution. After receiving his BS in political science from the University of South Florida and a PhD from the Union Institute and University in management, he has worked in higher education for more than twenty-five years.

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