Edwin Alonzo and Stanley Barbour Hildreth
name: label: Collection Manufacturer
content: Burt, Hildreth & Company
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content: Burt, Hildreth & Company Records
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content: Burt, Hildreth & Company Records / Series 2: Family Correspondence
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1877-1880
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1570, Subseries 2.2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contains the communication between Edwin Alonzo Hildreth (March 28, 1843-March 26, 1907) and his brother Stanley Barbour Hildreth (June 8, 1845-January 12, 1941) two inventors and manufacturers of Harvard's agricultural machinery trade.  Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the Hildreth brothers received a formal education from Lawrence Academy before graduating with engineering degrees from Harvard College. Edwin and Stanley entered the agricultural trade working for their uncle, George E. Burt, also a shop owner and inventor of farm machinery.  Eventually the brothers would build their own machine shop to improve and manufacture farm machinery. Materials relate to business and family matters and are arranged in chronological order.