New Haven Wire and Cable Company

By 1960 – fate not established

Founded: No founding date, founder, incorporator or first directory listing for this company was found, after targeted web searching on the exact name in its Fort Wayne / Allen County, its magnet-wire, and its Indiana-company forms. No year is printed. The routes to settle it are the Fort Wayne / New Haven city directories and Indiana incorporation records at ACPL — a directory run, not a web search, is what will settle whether this firm can be dated at all.

Founders: Unknown — not established. None named in any source found, and none invented here.

What it did: Magnet wire — insulated copper wire for coils — as one of Fort Wayne's magnet-wire producers. Its existence as a producer by 1960 is weak chain: the 1960 magnet-wire-centre account, repeated across reference summaries of Fort Wayne, lists the city in 1960 as home to New Haven Wire and Cable Company, Phelps Dodge, Rea Magnet Wire, Superior Essex and a General Electric operation, together producing nearly 90 percent of North America's magnet wire. The underlying 1960 source was not in hand, so the 90-percent figure is carried as that account's claim, not as an established output figure for this firm. Hawfield's News-Sentinel magnet-wire account (13 Dec 1993) independently names it — "the smaller New Haven Wire and Cable Co." — alongside Rea, Phelps Dodge (formerly Inca), Essex and GE, together producing more than two-thirds of the country's magnet wire at the time of his account.

Course / fate: No course or fate found — not established. No plant address, employment figure, sale, renaming or closure was found. Two cautions: (1) the name suggests New Haven, Indiana, the town east of Fort Wayne, but no source in hand places this company's plant in New Haven rather than Fort Wayne, and no location is asserted; (2) it is not the Connecticut New Haven Wire Company (organised 1871 in New Haven, Connecticut; later National Wire / American Steel & Wire) — any account merging the two is not supported on the evidence in hand, which gives the Connecticut firm a complete, separate history with no Indiana connection.

Sources:

1. News-Sentinel, Hawfield, 13 Dec 1993 ("the smaller New Haven Wire and Cable Co." named with Rea, Phelps Dodge, Essex and GE in Fort Wayne magnet-wire production) — http://egen.fortwayne.com/ns/projects/history/haw16.php
2. Fort Wayne summary carrying the 1960 magnet-wire-centre account (New Haven Wire and Cable Company among the five producers; nearly 90 percent of North America's magnet wire in 1960 — account's claim, underlying source not in hand) — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Wayne,_Indiana
3. Connecticut Mills, American Steel & Wire Co. history (the separate Connecticut New Haven Wire Company, 1871 — receivership 1887, reorganised, into National Wire 1899–1900 and American Steel & Wire 1902; cited only to prevent conflation) — https://connecticutmills.org/find/details/american-steel-and-wire-co
4. Searched, no founding record found: exact-name searches for "New Haven Wire and Cable" + Fort Wayne / magnet wire, and "New Haven Wire" + Indiana company / New Haven, Allen County (searching, 2026-11-05) — returns were the two mentions above and the unrelated Connecticut and Kane County, Illinois firms.