manufacturing

Immediately after the opening of Factory No. 3, and especially after the relocation of this plant to its present site in 1914, the company expanded its line into all sorts of wooden chairs. Household chairs included Windsor Chairs, Ladderback Chairs with hand-woven fiber seats, Duncan Phyfe Chairs with upholstered seats, Kneehole Desk Chairs, and a great variety of rocking chairs, including Boston Rockers. There was a line of wood seat office chairs, and school chairs including tablet arm, kindergarten, teachers’ and pupils’ chairs. The Tell City Chair Company became known as the largest chair factory in the world, with the longest line of chairs in the industry.

C. F. Fenn Manager  ‘Til 1944

 In 1911 Christian F. Fenn, son  of A. P. Fenn was taken into the partnership. In June 1920, following the death of A. P. Fenn, the company was incorporated and C. F. Fenn became general manager, a position he held until his death in 1944. Roy N. Fenn, his brother who had become affiliated with the company in 1927, took over the general management of the firm at this time.

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