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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 4274868, member: 649&quot;][USER=8211]@lucas[/USER]</p><p>There was a Murphy Chair company in Detroit from the time period that you suggest but it may be unrelated (I&#039;m finding conflicting info) to the Owensboro, KY Murphy company, which made your chair. Very brief googling seems to indicate the Owensboro company started around 1919 but, with some time and effort, you may find out differently.</p><p><a href="https://www.justanswer.com/antiques/5mrrb-just-purchased-chairs-paper-labels-seat.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.justanswer.com/antiques/5mrrb-just-purchased-chairs-paper-labels-seat.html" rel="nofollow">EDIT: Now finding that the Murphy company was not located in Owensboro until 1915.</a>, and it was indeed an extension of the Detroit company.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Furniture World, vol. 50 Towse Pub. Co., <b>1919</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Detroit, Mich., Dec. 8. The Furniture World, .</p><p><br /></p><p>New York, N. Y</p><p><br /></p><p>Gentlemen:</p><p><br /></p><p>In response to your communication of December 6th, just received, we do not confirm the fact that we have sold out our business entirely, but it is a fact that we have sold our manufacturing plant here in Detroit to Everett Brothers, builders of automobile bodies. On January 1 we will discontinue manufacturing chairs here and will then confine the manufacture of chairs to our plant at <b>Owensboro, Ky.. which plant we have been operating now during the past four years</b>. We started in with a small line and low production at Owensboro but during the period it has been operating there has been a notable &#039;increase in the production. At the present time we are manufacturing approximately one-third of our present line there. We will add considerably to . the equipment and will be in a position to take cure of the trade that we have been handling during the past years. Of course, we will discontinue manufacturing office chairs and this will cut off temporarily a part of the list of dealers we have ,been looking after for many years. It is our intention to gradually work into this line again, when our Owensboro plant produces a sufficient quantity of other chairs of varied description to meet the demand.</p><p><br /></p><p>We expect to maintain our general offices and a warehouse here in Detroit to look after the trade in this section. Trusting that this is the information you desire, we are,</p><p><br /></p><p>Yours very truly,</p><p><br /></p><p>MURPHY CHAIR CO.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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