Finding Aid to the United Cigarette Machine Company Papers

JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY
2311 MEMORIAL AVENUE
LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 24501
(434) 846-0501
THE UNITED CIGARETTE MACHINE COMPANY PAPERS
The collection includes correspondence, financial reports, and a trade magazine article
about the United Cigarette Machine Company, located in Lynchburg, Virginia.
UNITED CIGARETTE MACHINE COMPANY
The United Cigarette Machine Company was founded in 1902, with offices at 827
Main Street and shops at 103-109 Sixth Street in Lynchburg, Virginia. Officers at that
time were J. W. GEROW, Chairman, and P. A. KRISE, Secretary. By 1909, in addition
to the offices in Lynchburg, the company had offices in London, England, and in
Dresden, Germany. The business was ended in 1954.
[The United Cigarette Machine Company Papers, Mss., MS2080, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg,
VA; Walsh's Directory for the City of Lynchburg, Virginia, for 1902 (Lynchburg: J. P. Bell, 1902), p. 443;
James Burroughs Noell, Business Firms of 1900 in Lynchburg, Virginia, Vol. X, Lynchburg Historical
Society Papers (Lynchburg: The Society, 1972), p. 19; "Miscellaneous Pamphlets on Cigarette Machines,"
PAM1367, Jones Memorial Library, Lynchburg, VA.]

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