History |
George A. Morgan (1921-2015) and Robert J. Wightman (1931-2002) established the Morgan-Wightman Supply Company at 1541 Salzman Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri in 1950 to distribute wholesale building materials. In 1953, the company reported that it supplied 20,000 builders and dealers in 28 Mid-Western states (Sikeston, Missouri Daily Standard, 5/16/1953). The company produced several millwork catalogs in the 1950s and 1960s. Morgan served as president of the company until his retirement in 1972, and Wightman was the firm's vice president. The company established branch offices in various other locations including Chicago, Milwaukee, and Indianapolis. Wightman apparently left the firm in the late 1960s, and in 1972 Morgan sold the firm to Continental Western Industries (CWI), a Des Moines-based firm (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3/8/1972). CWI then sold Morgan-Wightman to a group of 15 employees in 1980 (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 11/23/1980). Morgan-Wightman suffered heavily during the Great Recession and only survived by consolidating its operations into its Kansas City facility, where the company continues today.
Millwork catalogs at archive.org:
1955,
1956,
1959
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