Francis Conkling Huyck Sr.

Francis Conkling Huyck Sr. was the founder of Kenwood Mills. Born in upstate New York, Francis had 40 years of experience making paper-maker’s felts before his death in 1907. The company then passed to his sons John, Edmund and Francis Conkling, Jr.

The Huyck name became synonymous with quality felts, and to celebrate the companies 50th anniversary, F.C. Huyck and Sons published “Two Related Industries: an account of paper-making and of paper-makers’ felts as manufactured at the Kenwood Mills, Rensselaer, New York, U. S. A., and Arnprior, Ontario, Canada, the two plants of F. C. Huyck & Sons, Albany, New York” in 1919. The book details the history of both the company and the technology of felt manufacturing.