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Union Furniture Co. – March 1927

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Source: The Rockford Furniture Herald. March 1927, page 12

Union Furniture Co., C A Newman, v-pres; W L Anderson, sec and treas; 1221 18th Ave.     Source:  1927 McCoy’s Rockford City Directory

Skandia Furniture Co., ad – August 1926

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Source: Rockford Furniture Herald, August 1926, inside front cover

Skandia Furniture Co., P A Peterson, president; C J Swenson, v-pres; A A Carlson, sec-treas; 1202 N 2nd St.   Source:  McCoy’s Rockford City Directory for 1926

Central Furniture Co. – 1891

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Central Furniture Co., Located at the southeast end of water power; organized in 1878; capitol $125,000. Its present officers are: S.A. Johnson, President; J.R. Anderson, Vice-President; Aug. Peterson; Secretary and Treasurer.  They are manufacturers of book-cases, desks and extension tables, and estimate their annual output at $150,000. They employ 140 hands, with an annual payroll of $75,000.  The size of its factories are 40×100, 40×70, 86×102; four stories and 50×52, two stories high.

Source: “Industrial and Picturesque Rockford,: Eugene Browne and F. Ford Rowe

Central Furn Sanborn Vert.

Above, Central Furniture Buildings shown on the 1928 Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. Race St. is East-West street shown near the top of this picture, So. Kent Creek wraps around on the south end of the factory with Rock River on the East of factories.  Address shown as Mill St. at Race St. in the 1928 Rockford City Directory.

“Central Furniture Co., S. A. Johnson, pres’t.; J. R. Anderson, vice-pres’t.; August Peterson, secy and treasurer. Wholesale manufacturers of library furniture and writing cabinets. Mill St., and water power.

Source: 1892 Philippi’s Rockford City Directory.