There have been several stories written during the course of this blog about incubator businesses. There were several plant locations subdivided into spaces for start-up businesses. The Whiting Street building on Main Street, Cabot Mills on Cabot Street and the Whitcomb building on Dwight Street come to mind.
Another notable mill complex was purchased by the Holyoke Water Power Company (HWPCo) from the American Writing Paper Company in December 1944. The Beebe & Holbrook complex at 380-420 Dwight Street was the former home of the Wauregan Paper Co., Massasoit Paper Co., and the Beebe-Holbrook Paper Co., all of which were merged with many other paper manufacturers to form the American Writing Paper Company in 1899.
Rene William Remillard was born in Holyoke, the son of Isiah and Clorenda (D'artois) Remillard. His parents were born in Canada and relocated to the United States in the late 1800s. For a time at the turn of the 20th century, the family lived at 6 Worcester Place in Holyoke.
In the early 20th century, the family moved to a farm at Park and Morgan Streets in South Hadley. Rene Remillard assisted his father in running the family farm while attending Massachusetts State College, where he studied agriculture.
During the 1930s, he left Holyoke and relocated to Greenwich, Connecticut, where he became the Superintendent of the estate owned by Lunsford Richardson of the Vicks VapoRub Company.
Mr. Remillard and his wife, Ardelle Remillard and children returned to South Hadley in the early 1940s, where he started his own printing business at his Stanton Avenue residence. He specialized in printing personalized stationery.
Rene Remillard holds the distinction of being the first tenant at HWPCo's Beebe & Holbrook mill complex, when he leased 3,765 square feet of space in the Wauregan building in April 1945. He planned to open his business by June 1945, after renovating the entire first floor of the factory space to suit his printing needs.
The company continued at 420 Dwight Street until 1958, when Rene and Ardelle Remillard retired.
Citations:
Newspapers.com (paid subscription): Citations: Holyoke (Massachusetts) Transcript & Transcript-Telegram; publication dates and pages are shown.
Ancestry.com (paid subscription): Price & Lee Holyoke, Massachusetts, City Directories
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