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A promotional card for Brattleboro\u2019s former Estey Organ Co., which was as soon as the biggest producer of pump and pipe fashions on this planet. Picture courtesy of the Brattleboro Historic Society<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

BRATTLEBORO \u2014 The story of Jacob Estey begins like a Charles Dickens\u2019 novel: Born into poverty in 1814, the late New Englander was farmed out as a baby laborer at age 4 and ran away at age 13, solely to ascertain a namesake native firm that was as soon as the biggest organ producer on this planet.<\/p>\n

Estey offered pump fashions to households searching for leisure within the days earlier than electronics, in addition to pipe devices to such luminaries as automaker Henry Ford, who rolled into Brattleboro in 1915 to see one specifically crafted for his Michigan mansion. However quickly after ending its largest undertaking in 1952 (a $65,000 fee for Florida Agricultural and Mechanical College), the corporate was offered to a New Jersey agency in 1953 and shuttered in 1960.<\/p>\n