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Thomas E Wilson & Co
Chicago

In 1913, the Ashland Manufacturing Company was set up in Ashland Avenue, Chicago, as a subsidiary of the Schwartzschild and Sulzberger meatpacking company to sell goods made from meat by-products such as gut strings for musical instruments and tennis rackets. It expanded to sell other sporting goods, hunting and camping equipment, bicycles and car tyres but was soon in receivership. The bank taking control of it appointed Thomas E Wilson, a meatpacking manager, as its head and named it the Wilson Company, not for him, according to Peter Georgiady, but to associate it with the popularity of President Woodrow Wilson.

Wilson embarked on a series of acquisitions, an Ohio company making baseball equipment and the Indestructo Caddy Bag Manufacturing Co and, in 1925, it merged with the Western Sporting Goods Manufacturing Co and changed its name to Wilson-Western Sporting Goods. In 1931 it became Wilson Sporting Goods.

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