William Openhym & Sons was a wholesale silk company in New York. The Manhattan Shirt Company was a subsidiary. The Copper Hewitt Museum has fabric samples from the company in its collection.[1] The Queens Library has a silver gelatin print of the company's mill[2] as well as the home of the mill's superintendent Jacob Salathe.[3]
In 1910 the company was the plaintiff in a case against a trustee that took possession of its goods from a bankrupt company.[6] The company was an early tenant in the Emmet Building in New York City.
Adolphe Openhym died in a suspected suicide committed by jumping off High Bridge into the Harlem River.[7]
Augustus W. Openhym died April 24, 1912, at Hotel Walton in New York City. The company's address was listed as 33 Mercer Street.[8]