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Moses Hey (1792-1866), opened a Philadelphia Yarn and woolen goods manufacturing business around 1848. The company maintained an office downtown and a factory in Upper Darby, PA. Moses’s home was in Springfield Township, Delaware County, PA. Born in Yorkshire, England in 1792, Moses moved to America...
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| Collection: | Hey Family Papers |
| Collection Number: | 1876 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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Moses Hey (1792-1866), opened a Philadelphia Yarn and woolen goods manufacturing business around 1848. The company maintained an office downtown and a factory in Upper Darby, PA. Moses’s home was in Springfield Township, Delaware County, PA. Born in Yorkshire, England in 1792, Moses moved to America in 1819. He immediately became an apprentice to a yarn-maker in Kentucky and eventually opened his own shop, the Hey Company, in the Philadelphia area. After he retired, Moses’s son Emanuel Hey (1821-1892) took over the yarn business with his brothers, Joseph and Samuel Hey. The three renamed the company E. Hey and Brothers Co. During the Civil War, the company fulfilled many clothing contracts for the Union Army.
This collection, which spans the years 1817-1896, contains correspondence to and from Moses Hey, with some of Hey’s speech drafts and poems that Moses submitted to newspapers; genealogical notes; legal papers of Moses and Emanuel Hey; and estate documents from several members of the Hey family. The correspondence concerns Moses’ yarn business, family, and politics, especially his strong Republican views during the Civil War. The legal papers include actual filings of legal issues and suits, as well as lawyers’ notes and party complaints. The family’s estate papers include wills and testimonies, inventories of estates, and debt resolution papers.
A folder of miscellaneous estate papers contain all of the relevant documents not attributed to Moses, Emanuel, or Emanuel’s wife, Lucretia. An updated Hey family tree, an 1893 broadside advertising a land sale in Langhorne, PA, and an 1893 map of Langhorne are stored in flat files.
Addition to the collection (2017.075 - 1 flat file [Oversize 4]) consists of Moses Hey's original letters patent, ms. specifications, and original ink & watercolor (R. F. Reynolds del.) for improvement in machinery for doubling and twisting yarn, patented by Mr. Hey on 8 October 1850. In addition to the original patent, there is also a folder of photostats and typed transcriptions of letters and documents to Hey, some of which concern his invention and his business. |