Hickey Freeman

Hickey Freeman is a manufacturer of suits for men and boys, based in Rochester, New York, and founded in 1899. The Hartmarx Corporation bought the company in 1964. In August 2009, India's leading textile and apparel company, SKNL, bought Hartmarx in bankruptcy procedings. The Hickey-Freeman Co. was the most notably distinguished of the once booming men’s clothing industry based in Rochester, New York at the turn of the century. During the 1880s and 1890s, Jeremiah G. Hickey (1866-1960) was a bookkeeper for Wile, Brickner & Wile, then the largest manufacturer of men's clothing in Rochester. His close friend Jacob L. Freeman (d.1925) was a private contractor of the firm. Together with fellow Wile, Brickner & Wile employees Thomas Mahon...