American Brass Company

American Brass Company
Company typePublic
IndustryBrass manufacturing
Founded1834 (as the Wolcottville Brass Company)
HeadquartersWolcottville, Connecticut (now Torrington, Connecticut)
Area served
United States
Key people
Israel Coe, co-founder
John Hungerford, co-founder
Anson Greene Phelps, co-founder
ProductsSheet, rolled and wire brass; brass tubing; brass fixtures; brass items such as clocks, gun and shell casings, electrical busses; etc.

The American Brass Company was an American brass manufacturing company based in Connecticut and active from 1893 to 1960. The company's predecessors were the Wolcottville Brass Company and the Ansonia Brass and Battery Company.[1] It was the first large brass manufacturing firm in the United States, and for much of its existence was the largest brass manufacturer in the country.[2][3][4] It was purchased by the Anaconda Copper Company in 1922,[4][5] and merged into Anaconda's other brass manufacturing concerns (losing its identity and name in the process) in 1960.

  1. ^ "Copper and Brass Industry," The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge, 1918.
  2. ^ Pape, History of Waterbury and the Naugatuck Valley, Connecticut, 1918.
  3. ^ Anderson, This Fine Piece of Water: An Environmental History of Long Island Sound, 2004.
  4. ^ a b Waszkis, Mining in the Americas: Stories and History, 1993.
  5. ^ Federal Writers' Project, Connecticut, 1938.