Stoughton
Shoe Co.
The
Stoughton Shoe Company was started in 1904 by O.S. Langemo at 321 S. River St.,
later address becoming 525 S. 8th Street.
Managed by Harold Craig, his wife was Marcia Langemo Craig.
Stockholders
were P.I. Hale, Dr. H.A. Chipman, C.P. Ward of Madison, Fred Huber and O.S.
Langemo. After elections of the Board
the role of president was sometimes found as P.I. Hale and sometimes O.S.
Langemo.
“While we
have larger plants, of which we are justly proud, it should also be a source of
pride to residents of Stoughton to have a purely local manufacturing enterprise
such as The Shoe Company, which from a small and uncertain beginning, has
reached a stable footing, and is now enjoying an excellent demand for its
products.
The
factory has throughout the past year employed nearly 30 hands, and during that
period has been in operation practically every working day. The high class work shoes in which the plant specializes, are marketed principally in New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
and this state, but in the course of the past year a new and promising
territory has been opened in the west in the states of Montana, Idaho and
Oregon.”
Stoughton
Weekly Courier Hub 11-24-??
Advertisement in 1906 Stoughton City Directory
“
The
erection of this factory is marked by a departure from the use of ordinary
building material, cement blocks being used for the first time in this city in
the construction of the walls. The
blocks are made by … Mike Mandt, are hallow and triangular, two rows making
the width of the wall.
The outer courses
are rock faced so that when the blocks become perfectly dry, the building will
have every appearance of being built of Waukesha or some other kind of gray
building stone.”
Stoughton
Hub July 15, 1904
Wisconsin Historical Society, Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, 525 S 8th St, Stoughton, Dane, WI, Ref No. 93040. Shoe Company built 1904 and frame warehouse 1912. Date of this photo is unknown.
