Standing first and foremost in the ranks of industrial enterprises in the Lykens Valley is the hosiery knitting mill of Isaac Mossop & Company, of Wiconisco. The company was organized in 1889 by Mr. Mossop and A. F. Kimmel, and reorganized after the death of Mr. Kimmel in 1893; the present firm consisting of Isaac Mossop; Lewis K. Diefenderfer, and Margaret S. Kimmel, Mr. Mossop being the active head of the concern.
The inestimable value of an enterprise of this kind in a community can best be understood when it is realized that employment is given from 100 to 150 hands, and from $2000 to $3000 distributed every month among these employees, which finds its way into the local channels of trade. The mill is equipped with the most modern machinery and appliances for the manufacture of men’s seamless half-hose, and is placing upon the market in various parts of the United States a average of 400 dozen pairs every day. From the organization of the company nineteen years ago there has been such a demand for its product that the mill has been kept consistently busy, and has won a splendid and widespread reputation for the superiority of its goods. Mr. Mossop, the leading spirit of the organization, is one of the most enterprising and progressive men in the Valley. He is president of the Miners Deposit Bank of Lykens, a director of the Tower City National Bank and Williams Valley Railroad Company, treasurer of the Wiconisco Dyeing Company, and is regarded locally as one of the foremost industrial promoters of this section of the State.
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Article and photo from a special Souvenir Edition of the Lykens Standard, March 13, 1908, obtained via Newspapers.com.
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