Ramsey County History – Summer 2006: “‘Dreams of the Immensity of the Future:’ Crex Carpet Company Revisited

“Dreams of the Immensity of the Future:” Crex Carpet Company Revisited
Author: Paul D. Nelson

A short article that follows up on an earlier piece by the author, published in the Winter 2006 issue. It was prompted by the discovery of an unpublished manuscript written by Michael O’Shaughnessy, the founder of the American Twine Grass Company, later known as Crex. The fifty-page document was shared by O’Shaughnessy’s great-grandson with Nelson, and it provided a lot of new information about Crex, a major St. Paul manufacturing company, and its founder, James O’Shaughnessy.
PDF of Nelson article