Kubias Harness Shop

Albert Kubias started his harness shop in 1870 in a building on State Street, just east of Union Hall (the old city hall). This building is still standing today at 321 State Street. In 1895, advertising proclaimed that he was the “best harness maker in northern Linn County, using nothing but the finest oak tanned leather.” He hand made all of the harnesses, a method he believed that was far superior to machine made. He also carried saddles, whips, dusters, fur robes and everything else usually handled in a first-class horse millinery and mule jewelry emporium.

Albert Kubias Harness Shop in 1895. G.A.R. Hall (Union Hall) seen at left. l-r: Albert Kubias and John Burns.

His son, Frank Kubias ran the shop until after 1950, serving customers as his father did before him.