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Rising Sun Stove Polish Company

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  Advertising from the Rising Sun Stove Polish Company. (George T. Comeau Collection)

 

Rising Sun Stove Polish Company (1864-1914)1

 

 

The Rising Sun Stove Polish Company was started by Elijah Morse who after his service in the Civil War began selling stove polish door to door based upon a formula gained from a Harvard Chemistry Professor. Although Morse owned land on Depot Street in Sharon the town did not allow him to build a factory fearing it would interfere with Sharon’s image as a pastoral retreat from the city. Morse then rented space above Resources1

 

Canton Comes of Age, 1797-1997 by Canton’s Bicentennial Committee, 73-75 (call no. 974.4 C)

 

Dan Keleher, “Historical Perspectives: Morse’s Rising Sun Stove Polish,” Canton Citizen April 4, 1991, 1 and 2

 

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