[5] There he was introduced to the business of mass-producing clothing hardware such as hooks and eyes used in undergarments and knit goods through Seth J.

[10] North & Stanley shared premises with another hardware company called P. & F. Corbin and Talcott became a charter director of that entity as well.

[6] In 1904, Talcott led American Hosiery to win a Silver Medal at the St. Louis World's Fair for its fine products.

The institute was a library and civic venture intended to benefit the public including many of the workmen of the industrial city that might not otherwise have access to books and reading opportunities.

The donations were made for the specific purchase of "original modern oil paintings either by native or foreign artists ... in the departments of art known as figure, landscape and genre subjects".

By 1938, 24 oil paintings had been bought including works by Hudson River School landscape painter George Inness.