Eagle Foundry


Chester Dexter was the proprietor of Utica's Eagle Foundry, also know as Eagle Furnace. The plant was located at the corner of Columbia Street and Cornelia Streets and produced parlor stoves, according to the Utica City Directory of 1837-1840.


From a advertisement in the Oneida Whig., February 11, 1840, Page 1, one would have seen...

EAGLE FURNACE
Corner of Cornelia & Columbia streets

The subscriber offers for sale at his Old Stand a good assortment of
Parlor, Hall, Coal and Box Plate Stoves,
of elegant patterns and eight sizes, one size made for Dairymen with
a hole sufficient to receive a serval pail kettle. Also, his PREMIUM
STOVE that took the first Premium in this city at the Young Men's Fair.
He has also, the latest and thickest PLATE THREE BOILER STOVES
now in use. Persons wishing to purchase will please call and examine
for themselves before purchasing elsewhere. The above Stoves are
made or the best Iron that can be purchased. The subscriber having
been for the last eighteen years a practical mechanic in the above
business, and depending on his own experience in the management
of his business, offers his Stoves al retail cheap for cash, warranting
them not to crack by fire, notwithstanding all the efforts made by
some persons near the centre of the city to prevent customers
calling on him, by false representations which an honest man would
not be guilty of. Also, on hand, Cauldron Kettles, Sleigh Shoes
Wagon and Pipe Boxes, Oven Mouths, Churn Castings, Road Scrapers,
Corn Cultivators and Ploughs, all of the first quality Land Sides
to fit most of the Ploughs. Ploughs repaired on short notice. All
the above articles with others not mentioned, will be sold very low
for cash. By Utica, Oct. 21 , 1839- CHESTER DEXTER.




In 1842 Russel Wheeler became a bookkeeper for Joel C. Bailey, who had just purchased the Chester Dexter Foundry. In 1844 they formed a partnership called Bailey, Wheeler & Co., which thhey continued until 1855, when Mr. Wheeler bought his senior partner's interest.


Read Fires, Furnaces & Forges: A Heating History to understand how the industry emerged. Also, learn about many other Utica Boiler and Furnace Manufacturers and their fasinating history. We're not opposing the new downtown hospital, we're seeking to help create a Better Hospital Neighborhood.



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