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Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Every month it consumed 800,000 pounds of iron and 450,000 pounds of steel. It employed up to 1,365 people and produced 65 safes per day. factory continued to grow to over 8 acres. Hall dismissed these rumors stating that he never intended to move but always found the press about them to be favorable advertisement. In 1883 rumors again circulated that Hall's factory was going to move from Cincinnati. The case would eventually end up in the Supreme Court. Hall, knowing that Consolidated was the "real party in interest", petitioned the court to have Consolidated substituted as the defendant in the case. In an unprecedented move at the time, Joseph L. That same year the Berkshire Savings bank was sued by Yale for using a Consolidated time lock which Yale claimed infringed on its patent. Hall created the Consolidated Time Lock company to house the time lock portion of his business. entered the nascent time lock business.Ĭontrolling the industry (1880–1889) Hall's true interest in moving the factory is in doubt. However, these talks bore no fruit, and the seriousness of Joseph L. Louis as a possible new location for the factory. Hall was in correspondence to acquire the President's farm in St. Hall's Safe & Lock Safe - Mercantile Building, Cincinnati, OhioĪccording to President Ulysses S. were using Hall's safes, and two-thirds of bankers in Chicago were using Hall's Safes. And as of 1874, twenty percent of new banks in the U.S. By 1872 the firm had grown to 460 employees and produced between 20 and 25 safes per day. As a result, the company began to grow immensely in both reputation and size and was known to be four times the capacity of similar factories. Hundreds of customer testimonials surfaced which Hall would use to his advantage in advertisements far and wide.
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And he was up to the task, as seen in a series of correspondence and news articles between Hall's and Sargent in regards to a lock-picking challenge instigated by James Sargent in 1870.įollowing the great Chicago fires of October 1871, Hall's safes were the only ones “proven to be secure”, protecting their contents inside through fires that lasted for as much as ten days. This well positioned Hall for competition against the leading lock manufacturers of the time, Yale & Town Mfg. One of the firm's earliest employees was Henry Gross, and in 1869 he was granted a patent for a combination lock that would become known as the Hall Premier.
would enter full-time employment in the firm as a clerk. Laying the foundation (1867–1870) Īt this time the factory was only "100 feet square and two stories high" and in 1868, Joseph L. and become its president and treasurer, O.Y. Hall incorporated the Hall's Safe & Lock Co. This success would lead to other government contracts during those years. Having no machinery or experience he managed to deliver in the requisite thirty days. Hall adapted to the times and took a government contract to alter and rifle five thousand Austrian muskets. (1862–1867): During the American Civil War demand for safes waned. Around 1862 the factory was moved to the southwest corner of Pearl and Plum streets in Cincinnati, Ohio, where it would remain and grow. (1858–1862): William Carroll and Charles Carroll partnered with Joseph L. They employed 15 people and produced two safes per week. Hall in 1851 to form the firm Hall & Dodds. Dodds bought Edward Hall's interest and partnered with Joseph L. Hall in a small and largely inconsequential way in Pittsburgh, PA in 1846 before moving the business to Cincinnati in 1848. Hall first began in business with his father Edward H. Hall cycled through a number of business partners and company names in the earliest years prior to incorporating and establishing Hall's Safe & Lock Co.Į.
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