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RE: (erielack) Re: Wilseyville, then, Willseyville, later (Now Lestershire)
Well done, Todd! Thanks. I will note that the EJ factories in Johnson City
(formerly Lestershire) were served by BOTH the DL&W and the ERIE.
SGL
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Hollritt [mailto:thollritt_@_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 11:25 AM
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> Subject: (erielack) Re: Wilseyville, then, Willseyville, later (Now
Lestershire)
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> The next station will be... Lestershire!
> Incorporated in 1892 as the Village of Lestershire, In 1916, the village
was renamed
> Johnson City in honor of George F. Johnson, who led the company that was
by then
> known as the Endicott Johnson Corporation. The station sat within the
complex!
>
> And what was the company that inspired the name?
> The Endicott-Johnson Shoe Company ("E-J") was a prosperous manufacturer
of
> shoes based in New York's Southern Tier, with factories mostly located in
the area's
> Triple Cities of Binghamton, Johnson City (Lestershire), and Endicott. An
estimated
> 20,000 people worked in the company's factories by the 1920s, and an even
greater
> number worked there during the boom years of the mid-1940s when, helped by
> footwear it produced for the military during the war years, it was
producing 52 million
> pairs of shoes a year. During the early 1950s, the work force was still
approximately
> 17,000 to 18,000. Today, EJ Footwear, LLC operates as a unit of
Nelsonville, Ohio as
> "Dickies" Rocky Shoes & Boots, Inc.
>
> AND did you know the Endicott Johnson Corporation grew out of the Lester
> Brothers Boot and Shoe Company, which began in Binghamton in 1854. In
1890, the
> Lester Brothers moved their business west to a nearby rural area (And
named the
> town!), which in 1892 was incorporated as the Village of Lestershire. And
here's a
> postcard view of the massive shoe factory being worked by two DL&W
switchers! Or
> did "E-J" have their own railroad to provide local service?
> Todd ~
>
> Note: "E-J" provided its workers the "Square Deal" that consisted of a
chance to buy
> "E-J" built and financed homes, a profit sharing program, health care from
factory-
> funded medical facilities and later (built in 1949) two worker
recreational facilities. But
> the Square Deal was more than an employee benefit program. E-J and the
Johnson
> family also provided or helped to finance two libraries, theaters, a golf
course,
> swimming pools, carousels, parks and food markets, many of which were
available to
> the community without charge. Reminders of the source of that generosity
were
> inescapable.One of the swimming pools was even shaped in the outline of a
gigantic
> shoe sole! But now were geting into the whole Weird NY thing and i'll
leave it at that.
> :)
>
> Todd ~ co-written by Wilipedia, LOL
>
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