The Salisbury & Satterlee Company Manufacturers of Beds and Bedding Are an Important Stone in the Commercial Foundation on Rests Prosperity of Minneapolis. SALISBURY & SATTERLEE manufacturers of Metal Beds and Bedding, is one of Minneapolis’ oldest and largest industrial organizations. The founder, Mr. Thomas G. Salisbury, came to Minneapolis in 1876, and in 1877, together with his son, Mr. Fred R. Salisbury (who was then a boy of 16), started the manufacture of mattresses.While the city has been growing from a small country village to the 18th largest city in the United States, the commercial and industrial center of the Great Northwest, the Salisbury & Satterlee Co. has been keeping pace with the march of progress. From the manufacture of mattresses alone, they have expanded, and their big plant now makes Brass and Steel Beds,Springs, Cots, Cribs. Couches, Pillows, Hospital and Institution Beds, and all kinds of special hospital equipment. The Salisbury & Satterlee Co. are today the largest manufacturers in the Northwest manufacturing a complete line of metal beds and bedding. Since 1894 the heads of the concern have been Mr. Fred R. Salisbury and Mr. W. E. Satterlee. Since Mr. Salisbury’s death last October, the management has been in the hands of Mr. Satterlee. The history of the growth of Minneapolis is a history of the growth of this firm. They have developed and expanded together and stand conspicuously as one of the institutions that form the commercial foundation on which rests the prosperity of our great city.
Since the establishment of the business back in 1877 it has steadily increased and developed its power to serve the needs of the Northwestern territory, making its growing prosperity contribute to that of Minneapolis. Through the prosperous years and the years of adversity, they have steadily but surely forged ahead toward greater things, and have won themselves a universal recognition as an outstanding example of success. Starting as pioneers they have maintained their lead and set a pace that has spurred others to efforts which have also led to success. Like many other large industries during the period of the war, their big plant was offered for the use of the Government. Contracts requiring the rebuilding of a large part of their machinery were taken and filled.
Their big business has been built on the principles of honest dealing, quality, and service. Their name on a metal bed. mattress or spring is a guarantee of satisfaction. Their reputation in the fields of Northwestern commerce has been one of the dominant factors in creating a universal demand for Minneapolis products, a demand which has greatly added to the wealth of her commercial life. They long ago learned and practiced the vital principle of cooperation in all activities.
The treatment accorded to their employees has helped to spread the reputation of Minneapolis as a center where labor conditions are as nearly ideal as is practically possible. In wages paid, the provision of splendid working conditions, and in opportunities offered to the worker to make the most of his possibilities, they have assisted in no small way to solve the labor problems. Concerns like the Salisburv & Satterlee Co. have made possible the rapid and solid growth of Minneapolis and the Great Northwest. By their farsighted policy they realized that success, in the largest meaning of the word, can come only with the success and prosperity of the city and state in which they do business; who realize that their own reputation for integrity and fair dealing reflects in a greater or less degree on the section in which they operate and do business. The Salisbury & Sattcrlee Co. are one of the big concerns doing business in Minneapolis (and there are many such), of which we can all feel justly proud. The continued growth of our fair city and state must go hand in hand with the growth of these old pioneer institutions that have grown and expanded steadily from year to year and made. their prosperity contributes to that of the city and state in which they cast their lot.
-1919 Advertisement in the Minneapolis Tribune
