One of the first businesses in Collingdale, Collingdale Millwork Company, then called Collingdale Manufacturing Company, was founded by Maximilian LaRoche around 1891. Originally and for the most part during its entire history, the millwork was set up to process wood and wood products to supply the surrounding communities with material to build homes. LaRoche kept the business going until around 1910 when he turned it over to a cousin, Otto Wand. Wand owned the company for a long time. Records seem to indicate that M.H Kilpatrick was president of the company during the time he ran for Burgess of Collingdale. He was Collingdale's Burgess from 1926 to 1929. Like most companies during the Depression, the millwork struggled to remain afloat. Ownership remainded in the Kilpatrick family until 1959 when it was then transferred G. Robert Overhiser. Overhiser was the last president of the company when it closed in 1998. The deed was then transferred to Cannon Brothers Inc.Today around a half dozen small business reside in the buildings once owned by Collingdale Millwork Company.
Information gathered through record search of company deeds and may or may not be completely accurate.
I worked here for a few summers in the 1970s (where we played lunch-time hockey during the Flyers' Stanley Cup years).
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