The Dorchester Beacon, October 26, 1907
D Eddy & Sons Company
Famous as manufacturers of the popular Eddy Refrigerators—over 14,000 per annum the output—factory 336 Adams St., Dorchester
As manufacturers of refrigerators, the house of D. Eddy & Sons Company. at No. 336 Adams Street, Dorchester, stands without a peer in the world. the perfection of the product of this factory having been attained after generations of experience. Indeed. the world is indebted to this concern for the refrigerator idea which originated in the brain of the founder ot this business before the middle of the last century. Darius Eddy, in 1847, invented the refrigerator and established a factory in Lincoln Street, Boston proper, for the manufacture of the invention. The factory was subsequently transferred to Washington Street and was removed to Dorchester in 1855, being first located oin Gibson street. The establishment was burned to the ground in 1872, before the big Boston fire, and then the present factory built. The structure is four stories in height and 75 by 105 by feet in dimensions. The works are operated by a steam engine of 100 horse power and employ a force of 70 hands. The company maintains seven storehouses, a new one having just been erected on Gibson Street. Darius Eddy, the inventor of the refrigerator and the founder of the business, died in 1893. The business had assumed such proportions ten years later that the concern was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts, with a capital of S40.000. Darius F. Eddy is the president of the company, J. Lodge Eddy is the treasurer, and Isaac H. Eddy is the secretary. The directors are the above and Lewis Eddy and George Eddy. The company turns out about 14,000 refrigerators a year. The total output includes all sizes, from the small family ice chest to the large affair used in hotels and markets. The company maintains and operates its own drying, sawing and planing plant and, in fact, does all of its work, in every department of manufacture itself. By pursuing this method, the company believes that it can get the best results and make the most perfect product. The Eddy Refrigerator
is known and used in all parts of the civilized world and is regarded everywhere as the standard of excellence in its line. It has hundreds of imitators, bur none has been able to approach it in real merit. The output of the Dorchester factory is sold through agents in the United States and European countries and elsewhere.
All of the members of the Eddy & Sons Company are brothers, being the sons of the late Darius Eddy, the founder of the industry. All of the brothers are m embers of the Masonic order, and Darius F. Eddy and Lewis Eddy belong to the Grand Army of the Republic, having served in the Civil war as members of the Forty-second regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers. This company operates one of the principal manufacturing industries in this district and is one of the chief factors, therefore, in its business prominence, and the citizens of Dorchester owe it a distinct obligation. It employs a small army of ,en and makes it possible for them to support their families on their liberal earnings and thus greatly conduces to the material prosperity and commercial importance of the entire district. Individually, the members of the company are ranked among the foremen citizens of the community, alive to any movement which will help toward the advancement of Dorchester and public-spirited and patriotic in a high degree. The fact that their products find resting places in all pans of the civilized world and that wherever the Eddy refrigerator is known, Dorchester is known, shows how far-reaching the influence of this great industrial enterprise really is and, therefore. really increases the local obligation. The Eddy brothers are highly respected and esteemed by all.