QUILT HISTORY STORIES
ELGIN, ILLINOIS
RIVER FOREST, ILLINOIS
Boag Ribboncraft, Boag, Inc., and Boag Studios Story
Book 5
Susan Wildemuth, Atkinson, IL
Timeline of Boag Ribboncraft, Boag, Inc., and Boag Studios
Elgin, Illinois and River Forest, Illinos
(1914-1916-1933)
Established: Boag Ribboncraft Company
Between 1914-1916
Founder: Ellen Roak Boag
Incorporated: Boag Ribboncraft Company
March 24, 1916
Name Change: Boag Inc.
April 16, 1929
Owners: Ellen (Boag) and Henry Porter
George R. Boag Starts own quilt line
Leaves Mom’s 1932
Company
Corporation Dissolved: Boag Inc.
Spring/Summer 1933
Ellen Roak Boag Porter
Retires to Florida
Collingbourne Mills, Purchased George R. Boag’s
Inc. Quilt Line
Elgin, Illinois Named Boag Studios
February 1936
