For the paper converting companies that produced notebooks, ledgers, cards, and similar items, having a proficient printing company was essential to uphold the quality of the product. In the case of Highland Manufacturing Company, located at 529 Main Street, the printing was done in-house. This is the story of the Judge and Fay Printing Company.
When Highland Manufacturing Company (ref., blog dated November 11, 2025) acquired the former Holyoke Warp Company building on Main Street, it established a printing business known as the Judge & Fay Company. The principals were Patrick J. Judge, corporate President, and Levi Elisha Fay, corporate Treasurer.
Some background information regarding Mr. Judge was provided in the Highland Manufacturing account; the following provides additional information about Mr. Fay.
Levi Fay was born in Windsor, Vermont, in 1875. At the age of five, his family moved to Holyoke, where his father, Collamer T. Fay, operated a shoe store at 39 Dwight Street. His shop was in the Windsor Hotel building, one storefront away from Front Street. After the devastating late 19th-century fire, the store relocated to 239 High Street and was known as Fay and Shumway.
Levi Fay graduated from Holyoke High School in 1883 and Amherst College in 1887. After graduation, he worked for the Evening Globe and Democrat. Thereafter, in the early 1900s, he worked for White & Wyckoff, a paper converting company. He was a traveling salesman and later a traffic manager. Much of his career was devoted to the paper and printing businesses.
In many respects, like the paper companies, many of the news articles were related to help-wanted advertisements. Positions, such as cylinder press feeders, job press feeders, compositors, and vertical printing press operators, were routinely sought.
James A Judge succeeded his father, Patrick J. Judge, as President of the corporation. James A. Judge was a 1914 graduate of M.I.T. with a degree in engineering. He had been associated with both the Highland Manufacturing and Judge & Fay Company since 1915.
It is known that Judge & Fay performed the printing work on the paper products produced by Highland Manufacturing. It is unknown whether independent work was solicited.
When the companies' buildings were sold to Texon Incorporated in late 1966, both Highland Mfg. and Judge & Fay relocated to the Holyoke Gas & Electric building at 102 Cabot Street.
Both companies continued to operate into November 1967, when W.G. Fry Corporation of Bridgeport, Connecticut, acquired both operations.
Citations:
Newspapers.com (paid subscription): Citations: Holyoke (Massachusetts) Transcript & Transcript-Telegram; Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican; publication dates and pages are shown.
Ancestry.com (paid subscription)
Price & Lee, City of Holyoke (Massachusetts) Directories
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