Hoosier Manufacturing Company

found: Kennedy, P.D. Hoosier cabinets, c1989:pref. (Hoosier Manufacturing Company)

found: Wikipedia, viewed July 1, 2019:under “Hoosier cabinet” (Hoosier Manufacturing Co. began in Albany, Indiana in the year 1898. Moved to New Castle, Indiana in 1900 after its Albany plant burned. The founders were glassmaker James McQuinn, his son Emmett McQuinn, and two business partners from Muncie, Indiana, John M. Maring, and Thomas Hart. Was one of the earliest and largest manufacturers of this product, causing the term "Hoosier cabinet" to become a generic term for that type of furniture. Advertised in the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post. By 1920, the Hoosier Manufacturing Company had sold two million cabinets. The Hoosier Manufacturing Company was sold and liquidated in 1942.)