William Openhym & Sons
William Openhym & Sons was a wholesale silk company in New York. The Manhattan Shirt Company was a subsidiary. The Copper Hewitt Museum has fabric samples from the company in its collection.[1] The Queens Library has a silver gelatin print of the company's mill[2] as well as the home of the mill's superintendent Jacob Salathe.[3]
The company operated Myhnepo mill in College Point, New York.[4] Myhnepo is Openhym spelled backwards.
Adolphe Openhym (1854 - 1903), a member of the family,[5] was the original owner of 352 Riverside Drive a property later owned by hedge fund manager Jim Rogers, oil tycoon scion Helen Hunt,[5] and Amy Schumer. It is landmarked and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[citation needed]
In 1910 the company was the plaintiff in a case against a trustee that took possession of its goods from a bankrupt company.[6] The company was an early tenant in the Emmet Building in New York City.
Adolphe Openhym died in a suspected suicide committed by jumping off High Bridge into the Harlem River.[7]
Augustus W. Openhym died April 24, 1912 at Hotel Walton in New York City. The company's address was listed as 33 Mercer Street.[8]
References
- ^ "William Openhym & Sons | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum". collection.cooperhewitt.org.
- ^ http://vital.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/manager/Repository/aql:12243?sort=bs_metadata.peerreviewed%2F&f3=sm_subject%3A%22Factories%22
- ^ http://vital.queenslibrary.org/vital/access/manager/Repository/aql:12161?f1=sm_subject%3A%22Gardens%22&f0=sm_subject%3A%22Architecture%2C+Domestic%22
- ^ "Textile World". McGraw-Hill. July 5, 1905 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Miller, Tom (July 7, 2011). "Daytonian in Manhattan: The 1901 Adolphe Openhym House - 352 Riverside Drive".
- ^ "FindLaw's United States Supreme Court case and opinions". Findlaw.
- ^ "MISSING SILK MERCHANT; Suicide Theory Accepted by Relatives of Adolphe Openhym. Man That Resembled Him Jumped from High Bridge -- His Business Affairs Said to be Prosperous". April 2, 1903 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "The American Silk Journal". Clifford & Lawton. August 12, 1912 – via Google Books.