Abbott, E.G.* Kingfield,
Knox -1874-1891
Tools
Made: Axes
Remarks: He worked in Kingfield from 1874-1882 and Knox from 1882-1891. (Yeaton, Axe
Makers of Maine.)
Abbott, Ebenezer G.** Montville
-1850-1860-
Tools Made: Blacksmith
Remarks: Listed in the
1850 and 1860 census. He was born in Northport, Maine.
Abbott, Joel** Montville
-1860-
Tools Made: Blacksmith
Remarks: Listed in the
1860 census. He was born in Vermont.
Abbott, Sewall L. Deering
-1871-
Tools Made: Bits
Remarks: Abbott had a
patent marked: PAT' D. JULY 25. 71 for a countersink,
but he may not have actually made the tool himself.
Ackerman & Johns*
Bangor
Tools
Made: Axes
Adams, Dummer J.** Kittery
-1877-
Tools
Made: Countersinks
Remarks:
The Davistown Museum has in its collection a countersink marked PATENDED
| JAN 23, 1877. | D.J. ADAMS | KITTERY, ME. with the word patented upsided down. The Directory of American Machinery
and Tool Patents lists this as patent number 186,513 for an improvement
for countersinks and also shows the patent diagram at: http://www.datamp.org/displayPatent.php?number=186513&type=UT.
It is unknown who manufactured the countersink. This one is also
marked R.L. MARKS, who might have been the
owner.
Adams, J.C.*
Waterboro
Tools
Made: Axes
Adams, J.G. Waterford
-1855-1856-
Tools
Made: Axes and Edge Tools
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1855 and 1856 Maine Business Directories.
Adams, R.F. Lincoln
-1855-1856-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: He is listed in the 1855 and 1856 Maine Business Directories.
Albee, Robert** Bucksport
-1855-
Tools Made: Wheelwright
Remarks: He is listed
in the 1855 Maine Registry and Business Directory.
Alden & Co., H.**
Camden -1855-
Tools Made: Pump and
Block Makers
Remarks: Listed in the
1855 Maine Registry and Business Directory.
Alden, John** Augusta
1830-
Tools Made: Coopers tools
Remarks: John Alden,
one of the original Plimouth Pilgrims, was a cooper and in the 1830's he
and John Howland were sent up to Kennebec to set up and manage a trading
post there. Information courtesy of Ruth DeWilde Major.
Aldrich
& Waterhouse Gardiner
-1867-1871-
Tools Made: Edge Tools
See: Waterhouse,
W.H.
Remarks:
Listed in the 1869 Maine Business Directory.
Aldrich, Ezra Calais
-1865-1866-
Tools
Made:Adzes, Axes, Chisels and Edge Tools
Aldrich, Ezra** Bath
-1879-1882-
Tools Made: Axes, Adzes,
etc.
Remarks: He is listed
on Commercial St. in the 1879 and Water St. in the 1881-2 Maine Business
Directory. Is it possible this is the same Ezra Aldrich as the one
in Calais earlier?
Allard,
Isaac Belfast -1868-1884
(b.1819; d.1884)
Tools
Made: Screwdrivers
Remarks: A watchmaker, machinist, and jewelry dealer, Allard was also the inventor
of several spiral screwdrivers for which he received patents (4 Aug. 1868
and 24 Nov. 1874). These tools were known to be made by F.A. Howard (& Son) after the 1880's, however their name does not appear on all
such tools. Allard or someone else may have made them as well.
Screwdrivers bearing Allard's patent were still being sold in 1898. Patents
80583 on 10/4/1868; 157087 on 11/24/1874, information courtesy of C.D.
Fales. The Davistown Museum has one screwdriver with an Allard patent
in the IR: Other Factory
Made Tools collection listed under Maine Made Tools. Also
see Franklin Augustus Howard and Clifford Fales' Gristmill article on Issac Allard spiral screwdrivers.
Allen, A.**
East Livermore -1882-
Tools Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: Listed in the
1882 Maine Business Directory.
Allen, Cyrus K. Windham
-1871-1879-
Tools Made: Farm
tools and Plows
Allen, I.F.** Liberty
-1870-
Tools Made: Machinist
Remarks: Listed in the
1870 census as living at the home of blacksmith Richard Gilman.
American Axe
& Tool Co. Oakland
-1889-1921
Tools
Made: Axes, Edge Tools, Farm Tools and Scythes
Remarks:
This was the huge congolomerate of American Ax companies that bought
up many of Maine's ax makers including Hubbard & Blake of Oakland,
which became American Axe & Tool Co. plant number 16. The company
probably moved to Pennsylvania in 1912. DATM (1999) indicates they
were originally a consortium of fifteen or more companies forming an axe
making trust. In 1921, Kelley Axe & Tool Co. of West Virginia
bought their assets.
Ames, Epthah J.* Waterboro
Tools Made: Axes
Remarks: Could this be
the same man as Ames, Jepthah and/or Ames, J.?
Ames, J.F.*
Richmond -1855-1902
Tools
Made: Axes, Edge Tools
Remarks: He is listed in the 1855 Maine Business Directory as an edge toolmaker.
Yeates reports him as an ax maker from 1874 to 1902. Perhaps this
is the same J. F. in the partnership of J.F. & D.C. Ames? The Davistown
Museum has an Ames peen adz marked J. F. AMES in the Maritime IV: The
Early Industrial Revolution collection listed under Maine made tools.
This tool will be part of the 2007 Art of the Edge Tool Show.
Ames, J.F. & D.C. Richmond
-1867-1881-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools, Axes, Ice tools, Shipsmith
Remarks:
They are listed in the 1867, 1869, 1879 and 1881 Maine Business Directories.
Ames, J.* Waterville
1826-
Tools Made: Axes
Ames, Jepthah
Waterville
Tools Made: Axes
Andrews & Co., W. Buckfield
Village -1849-
Tools
Made: Hoes
Andrews, Edgar D. Stow
-1855-1882-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: DATM (1999) indicates Andrews was also working in North Chatham, NH at
the same time. He is listed in the 1881
and 1882 Maine Business Directory in both places.
Archer, Joel W. Lincoln
-1855-1874-
Tools
Made: Axes and Edge Tools
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1855 and 1856 Maine Business Directories.
Atkins & Simmons**
Rockland -1869-
Tools
Made: Shipsmith
Remarks:
Listed in the 1869 Maine Business Directory.
Atkins, J.W.*
Rockland 1883-1892
Tools
Made: Axes
Atkins, W.J.**
Rockland -1881-1882-
Tools
Made: Shipsmith
Remarks:
Listed in the Maine Business Directory in 1881 on Ocean St. and in 1882
at 16 North Main St.
Atkinson, Joseph*
Buxton 1829-1832
Tools
Made: Axes
Remarks: This maker is
listed as Alkinson in DATM, probably a misspelling.
Augusta Foundry**
Remarks: No further information
or working dates are available yet about this listing.
Auster & Davis Addison
-1856-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks:
This company is listed in the 1856 Maine Business Directory.
Austin, Moses**
Addison -1855-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1855 Maine Business Directory.
Austin, R.J. Dixfield
Tools
Made: Lumber Measuring Tools, Log Calipers
Avery & McLaurin**
Portland -1882-
Tools
Made: Shipsmith
Remarks:
Listed in the 1882 Maine Business Directory at 17 Union St.
Avery, George** Portland
-1881-
Tools
Made: Shipsmith
Remarks:
Listed in the 1881 Maine Business Directory at 4 Union St.
Avery, George** Prospect
-1872-
Tools Made: Blacksmith
Remarks: Avery, with George
Wescott owned and ran Bowdoin Point Blacksmith. The hill upon
which the blacksmith shop sat is still referred to as Blacksmith Shop Hill.
They were connected with the quarries. (Alice Ellis, History
of Prospect 1759-1979, 1980, pg. 251-252.)
Avery, Samuel**
Portland -1869-
Tools
Made: Shipsmith
Remarks:
Listed in the 1869 Maine Business Directory.
Avery, Samuel**
Charlemont
Tools
Made: Axes
Remarks:
Avery is listed in Appendix 2 (page 98) of Klenman's Axe Makers of North
America with a notation that Avery was a working blacksmith. Klenman
does not give any further description of Avery in his text.
Avery, Stephen Amherst,
North Anson, Anson -1849-1856-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: Avery later moved to North Anson, ME . He is listed in North Anson
in the 1855 Maine Business Directory. The 1856 Maine Business Directory
lists Stephen Avey of Anson, probably a misprint of his name.
Ayer, William**
Liberty -1879-
Tools
Made: Axes
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1879 Maine Business Directory.
Ayers* Dresden
1869-
Tools
Made: Axes
Ayman, William** Calais
-1855-
Tools Made: Pump and
Block Makers
Remarks: He is listed
in the 1855 Maine Registry and Business Directory.
Babcock, M.** ?
Tools Made: Drawshaves
Remarks: A mast shave
(?) 19" long with a 12 3/8" long cutting blade was found in a coastal Maine
workshop and the maker is not listed in DATM (1999). This shave is
in the Davistown Museum collection and is characterized by a heavy cutting
blade, 2" in depth; welded steel construction with evidence of heavy filing,
appearance 1840 - 1860. It is uncertain if this is a heavy duty cooper's
shave, or as is more likely, a mast shave. If not of Maine origin,
it is most certainly a New England-made edge tool.
Bachelder, E.S.**
Montville -1869-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks:
Listed in the 1869 Maine Business Directory.
Bacheldor,
L.** Sebago
Tools
Made: Planes
Remarks: In the Bob Jones collection is an 8 1/2" smooth plane with marks J.
BRADFORD. PORTLAND and L. Bacheldor. Sebago.
Pollak lists this plane on pg. 29. Also see Joseph Bradford of Portland and I. Batchelder who made planes
in Sebago. Could these be the same person with the name misspelled?
Bailey, G.E. Cambridge
-1879-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools and Plows
Bailey, Jesse Dresden
-1879-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools including Hay Presses
Bailey, R.G. North
Bridgewater -1849-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Bailey,Richard Bridgton
1816-1856
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: He is listed in the 1855 and 1856 Maine Business Directories as an edge
toolmaker.
Bailey, S. Everitt Cambridge
-1879-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools and Plows
Remarks: What
was Everitt's relationship to G.E. Bailey (above)?
Baker & Kincaid** Skowhegan
-1867-
Tools Made: Butcher Knives
Remarks: This company is listed in the 1867 Maine Business Directory.
Baker, D.I.** South Weston,
Weston -1879-1882-
Tools Made: Axes
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1879, 1881, and 1882 Maine Business Directory.
Baker, Daniel** Liberty
-1880-
Tools Made: Blacksmith
Remarks: Listed in the
1880 census.
Baker, C.M. & A.* Bingham
-1874-1890
Tools Made: Axes, Shaves,
etc.
Remarks: This company
is listed in the 1879 Maine Business Directory.
Baker, H. Portland
-1869-
Tools
Made: Saw Filing Machines, Saw Tools
Baker, R.**
York 1997-
Tools
Made: Planes (and reproductions)
Remarks:
Bob Baker worked in Michigan from 1979 - 1997 and now has moved to Maine.
He makes planes for violin makers in New York City and San Francisco.
He has also done reproductions of planes including a Sandusky center-wheeled
plow owned by Lee Valley Tools and
illustrated in their 2002 calendar (photo) and an Israel White of Philadelphia
plow plane illustrated in a Don Rosebrook publication on plow planes.
Bangor
Edge Tool Co.* Bangor
-1874-1910
Tools
Made: Axes, Knives
Remarks:
This company is listed at 57 or 59 Exchange St. in the 1879, 1881,
and 1882 Maine Business Directory. An envelope with the postmark of 1887
and bearing the letterhead of the Bangor Edge Tool Co. has been recently
discovered by Bar Harbor collector Michael Strout and is reproduced here.
This envelope clearly denotes this company as a vendor of the Peavey cant
hook and assumedly other tools. The letterhead also has in the name C.
A. Peavey in the upper left hand corner above the cant hook illustration,
linking the Bangor Edge Tool Co. to the labyrinth of the Peavey clan of
toolmakers. A later (1941) catalog issued by the Peavey
Mfg. Co. is reproduced in the Davistown Museum Maine toolmakers information
files.
Bangor Foundry & Machine
Co. Bangor -1880-1885-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools and Plows
Remarks: They also manufactured
cultivator teeth.
Banks, Edward Prince Portland
-1834-1870
Tools
Made: Scientific Instruments including watches and mathematical and
nautical instruments
Remarks: DATM
(1999) indicates that Banks was a partner with William H.H. Hatch in the
jewelry business from 1837 to 1857 during which time he may have made instruments,
the maker's sign for which is unknown.
Barker & Stinchfield** Brunswick
-1825-
Tools Made: Blacksmith
Barker, Abijah**
Canaan -1867-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: He is listed in the 1867 Maine Business Directory.
Barker,
Daniel J. Weston -1867-1879-
Tools
Made: Axes
Remarks:
He is listed in the 1867 and 1869 Maine Business Directory. Could
he have later partnered in Kierstead & Barker of nearby Danforth?
Barclay, David** Calais
-1855-
Tools Made: Wheelwright
Remarks: He is listed
in the 1855 Maine Registry and Business Directory. It also has the
word "milltown" in parenthesis next to his name.
Barclay, Samuel** Calais
-1855-
Tools Made: Wheelwright
Remarks: He is listed
in the 1855 Maine Registry and Business Directory.
Barnes & Smith**
Brewer -1869-
Tools
Made: Shipsmith
Remarks:
Listed in the 1869 Maine Business Directory.
Barrett, G. Buckfield
-1879-1885-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools and Rakes including drag rakes
Barrows & Son, C. Canton
-1871-
Tools
Made: Horse Rakes
Barrows, A. Canton
-1879-1885-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools
Remarks: Relationship
to Barrows & Son is unknown.
Barrows, L.M.** Vassalborough
Tools Made: Planes
Remarks: He made a 9"
long compassed smoother, marked with his name and VASS.ME.
The town of Vassalborough, Maine, located on the east bank of the Kennebec
River, 14 miles northeast of Augusta, had a population of 3,000 in 1850.
(Pollak, pg. 36). The Bob Jones collection has a 9" iron coffin plane
with this mark.
Bartlett, J.W. Elliot
Tools
Made: Branding Irons
Remarks: DATM
(1999) indicates, "It is not clear if Bartlett was it's maker or the name
it branded."
Barstow, Calvin** Brunswick
-1790-
Tools Made: Blacksmith
Barton,
Flint** Oakland 1773-1833
Tools
Made: Axes
Remarks:
Barton was one of the first ax makers working on the Emerson Stream in
Oakland, Maine. (see Klenman's Axe
Makers of North America.) Klenman indicates he had 13 sons, many
of whom became blacksmiths as well as ax makers in the Oakland area.
No specific names or manufacturing company records have survived about
the activities of these offspring.
Bassell, T.H. Wellington
-1870-1871-
Tools
Made: Axes
Batchelder, Edward S. Montville
-1869-1871-
Tools
Made: Blacksmith, Edge Tools
Remarks: This
name is also recorded as Bachelder. He is listed in the 1850 - 1870
census and was born in Liberty.
Batchelder,
I. Sebago
ca. 1790
Tools
Made: Wood Planes
Remarks: DATM
(1999) indicates that the maker's signature was I. BATCHELDER
| SEBAGO. Pollak states in his fourth edition that
I. Batchelder was listed in Sebago ca. 1800 (pg 40). Also see L.Bacheldor.
Batchelder,
Joseph C. Lisbon circa 1819-1828
Tools
Made: Edge Tools and Scythes
Remarks:
It is unclear (DATM 1999) if a hay knife with the reported marking BATCHELDER may have also been from this maker.
Bates, Erastus
W.** Waterville -1863-
Tools
Made: Hand Saws
Remarks: He had patent 37999 on 3/24/1863 for a hand saw. It was assigned
to John Ellis of N. Bridgewater, MA. The patent claims an improvement
to the method of stretching the blade in a buck saw. See Ellis
Saw Co. Source: Graham Stubbs.
Bath Iron Foundry Bath
-1869-1871-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools and Plows including cultivators and harrows.
Bead & Morrill** Bangor
Tools Made: Planes
Remarks: Morrill was
a prominent Bangor planemaker, who was Bead? See Pollak, 4th edition.
Beam, Eli B. Brownfield
-1885-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools
Bean, B.B.* Rockland
-1869-
Tools
Made: Shipsmith
Remarks:
Listed in the 1869 Maine Business Directory.
Bean, Jonathan Montville
-1855-1860-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools
Remarks:
He is listed in the 1855 Maine Registry and Business Directory and in the
1860 census as a Machinist. He was born in New Hampshire.
Beath, W.H.** Kenduskeag
-1879-
Tools Made: Axes, Cooper's
Tools
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1879 Maine Business Directory.
Becker,
C. B.** Cherryfield
Tools
Made: Gouges
Remarks:
The Museum now has two chisels marked G.B.
Ricker; it appears there was no Becker, this listing
was created by our misreading of an obscured mark.
Beek & Sons*
Orono -1874-1877
Tools
Made: Axes
Belfast Foundry**
Belfast -1880-1900-
Tools
Made: Tools and Machinery
Remarks: The Belfast Foundry originally did custom foundry work, including ship's
fittings. They also made quarry tools, and were known to have sold stone
dressing tools to Halls Quarry in Mount Desert. Information provided by
Doug Brown of Belfast, who also has a house jack made by the Belfast
Foundry. His grandfather worked there. The foundry made a proof press for
a local printer.
Benjamin & Co. Winthrop
-1855-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools
Benjamin, James Newport
-1862-
Tools
Made: Axes
Remarks: Benjamin was also listed as a horse shoer.
Benjamin,
Samuel** Winthrop
-1790-
Tools Made: Planes
Remarks: Pollak states
that he was apprenticed to Joseph Metcalf, a Winthrop, ME, planemaker (pg.
45).
Bennett's Mills Norway
-1864-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools and Plows
Remarks: The
company was bought by George Evans in 1864 where he made the circular plane
he patented on 28 Jan. 1862. DATM (1999) indicates this company may
have made planes for Evans before he bought the company, and it is not
known whether or not Evans continued to make farm tools and plows once
he bought the company. For more information on G.F. Evans see the
entry under that name. The Davistown Museum has one specimen of the
Evans circular plane on exhibit in the main museum hall.
Bennett,
F. P. & Co.** Montville
Tools Made: Blacksmith,
Machinist
Remarks: "Frank [Bennett]
was an inventor who developed an improved model of the Cram Wheel that had a more efficient turbine action, and was designed to allow
for quicker repairs when the iron fins broke off. ...Several of his
patents were offered for general sale, such as the Liberty Tongue and Groove
Stave Machine and Bennett's Improved Stave Chamfer and Crozing Machine,
and a hand water pump." (Tom Donahue,
1996, The Kingdom in Montville, Maine). Illustrations of these machines from his brochures have been reproduced on the back cover
of the Registry. Also see the Liberty
Machine Co.
Berry & Waterhouse*
Gardiner
Tools
Made: Axes
Berry, Eldbridge** Gardiner
-1867-
Tools Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1867 Maine Business Directory.
Best, Henry** Robbinston
-1855-
Tools Made: Pump and
Block Makers
Remarks: He is listed
in the 1855 Maine Registry and Business Directory.
Bicknell
Manufacturing Company** Rockland
Tools
Made: Quarrying
Remarks: Mr. Putnam Bicknell, the firm's second manager, purchased control of the Livingston
Manufacturing Company and opened a branch office and plant in Elberton,
Georgia. He also changed the name to Bicknell Manufacturing. (Shore Village
Story). The company now goes by the name Bicknell Supply Co. and
has closed the Rockland branch. For more information see the Museum's information
file. The Davistown Museum has a Bicknell stone chisel in the
IR: Other factory made
tools collection listed under Maine made tools.
Billings** Augusta
Tools
Made: Draw Knives, Cleavers, Slicks
Remarks: The Davistown Museum has a clapboard slick (photograph) marked BILLINGS
| AUGUSTA in the Maritime
IV collection listed under edge tools and a cleaver in the Maritime
III collection listed under knives.
Billings** China
Tools Made: Chisels
Remarks: The Davistown
Museum has a chisel (photo) marked BILLINGS. | CAST STEEL | CHINA and CAST STEEL | WARRANTED in the Maritime
III collection listed under edge tools.
Billings Axe Co.** Clinton
Tools Made: Axes
Remarks: This company
was founded by J.P. Billings of Clinton. George P. Billings was born
in 1865 and eventually took over his father's business.
Billings & Fogg North
Monmouth -1859-
Tools
Made: Hoes and Shovels
Billings & Spear North
Monmouth -1849-1856-
Tools
Made: Hoes and Shovels
Remarks: DATM (1999)
indicates that they were succeeded by Billings & Fogg sometime before
1859, and were also listed as Spear & Billings.
Billings, George H. North
Monmouth -1869-1871-
Tools
Made: Hoes and Shovels
Billings, G.P.* Clinton
-1874-1909
Tools Made: Axes
Remarks: **Connor Noel
has informed us that John P. Billings of Clinton had a son named George
P. Billings, born in 1865. Possibly this is the G.P. Billings listed
by Donald Yeaton?
Billings, J.*
Saco -1874-
Tools
Made: Axes
Remarks: Could
this be a relative of John P. Billings of Clinton?
Billings,
John P.** Clinton -1825-1881-
b. 1837
Tools Made: Axes and
Edge Tools
Remarks: DATM (1999)
notes his maker's mark as J.P. BILLINGS | CLINTON. ME with
both lines of text curved to form an oval. DATM also notes
a John Billings worked in Saco, Maine circa 1825, as well as in Hallowell
in 1841. **Connor Noel (a sixth generation descendent of John P.
Billings) has informed us that John P. was born in 1837 and he opened the
ax factory in Clinton (dates unknown). This means the date of 1825
given in DATM is not correct or that it refers to yet another of the Billings
clan. He is listed as a Clinton ax maker in
the 1867, 1879 and 1881 Maine Business Directory. The broad ax shown
(with an enlargement of the mark) belongs to Connor Noel. The Museum
has a Billing's ax listed in the IR: Other
Factory Made Tools collection listed under axes and a Billings socket
chisel in the Maritime
III collection listed under Edge Tools - American made. On 10/28/05
the Hulls Cove Tool Barn discovered in a Falmouth foreside barn a J.P.
BILLINGS | CLINTON MAINE lipped adze, the first one noted
in the 36 years of tool picking by the Jonesport Wood Co. It will be included
in the 2007 Art of the EdgeTools show.
Blake, Wm. P.** Waterville
1862-1889
Tools Made: Axes, Scythes
and Hooks
Remarks: Also see the Hubbard
& Blake Mfg. Co.
Bliss, T. Buckston,
Bucksport -1807-1820-
Tools
Made: Wood Planes
Remarks: The definite listing of Bliss as a toolmaker in the first edition of the
DATM (1990) has been changed to a tentative listing in the 1999 edition.
The 1999 edition also notes that Bliss may be one of two cabinet makers
in Newport, RI. Planes were simply marked T. BLISS.
Pollak (pg. 52) notes the mark T. BLISS. / BUCKSTON (in 1807 Buckston's name was changed to Bucksport.) The Bob Jones
collection has a 9 1/4" round plane with the Buckston mark.
Blodett, S. A.**
Belfast -1881-
Tools
Made: Shipsmith
Remarks: Listed in the 1881 Maine Business Directory on Main St.
Bodwell, Joseph**
Wayne, Oakland 1879
Tools
Made: Axes
Remarks: See the North Wayne Tool Co.
Bolton & Son Portland
Tools
Made: Axes
Remarks: Any relationship to Libby & Bolton, Portland's
prolific maker of edge tools?
Bolton,
Elbridge G. Portland -1855-1856-
Tools
Made: Adzes, Draw Knives and Edge Tools
Remarks: DATM
(1999) indicates maker's marks as E.G. BOLTON PORTLAND,
and E.G. BOLTON | FLOYD | PORTLAND. ME with a notation that Floyd was otherwise reported
as a Portland ax maker. He is listed in the 1855 and 1856 Maine Business
Directories. Also see Libby & Bolton.
NOTE: Clarence Blanchard sold both a signed Bolton hewing ax and a Bolton
gutter adz at his auction on March 10, 2002.
Bolton, Thomas Portland
-1849-
Tools
Made: Draw Knives and Edge Tools
Remarks: Maker's mark
noted as T. BOLTON.
Boothby, D.S.** Livermore
-1882-
Tools Made: Knives
Remarks: Listed in the
1882 Maine Business Directory.
Boothby, Noah Waterville
-1881-1882-
Tools Made: Axes and
Edge Tools
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1881 and 1882 Maine Business Directory with a location
of Main St. He used the mark N.
BOOTHBY | WATERVILLE. The 2" socket chisel in the
photograph is owned by Rick Floyd.
Boothy, Brice Limington
-1855-1856-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks:
He is listed in the 1855 Maine Business Directory with a first name of
Price and in the 1856 Maine Business Directory
as Brice.
Bore, R & H Co.**
Waterville
Tools
Made: Axes
Boulet**
Sebago Lakes -1900-1904-
Tools
Made: Gauges
Remarks: The Davistown Museum has a measuring gauge (photo) marked BOULET'S
FINE TOOL WORKS SEBAGO LAKES MAINE | PAT OCT 2 1900 SEPT 10 1910 FEB 25
04 in the IR: Classic
Period of American Machinist's Tools collection.
Boulton, N.L.V. Waterville
-1849-
Tools
Made: Hammers
Bowker, James Sr.** Paris
1796-1820-
Tools Made: Blacksmith
Remarks: He purchased
land in Paris, ME, in 1796 from Isaac Jackson. He was a descendant
of James Bowker, a Swede in early Massachusetts and was also a Revolutionary
Soldier.
Boynton, D.P. Monmouth
circa 1878-
Tools
Made: Wood Bench Vises
Remarks: According
to DATM (1999) it is unclear if Boynton patented a wood bench vise in 1878,
made it, or perhaps both.
Bradford, Jesse Turner
-1869-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools and Plows
Bradford,
Joseph Portland
circa 1837-1884 (b. June 1806, d. May 21, 1884)
Tools
Made: Carpenter Tools, Cooper Tools, Edge Tools, Shipsmith Tools and
Wood Planes
Remarks: He had two marks: J.BRADFORD | PORTLAND and J.BRADFORD
| PORTLAND | ME. According to Pollak, pg. 58, "The
1860 census reported he had one employee and produced $1000 worth of coopers'
tools, $200 worth of joiners' tools and $100 in repairs." The Bob
Jones collection has four examples of his planes including a 11 1/2" beech
handled match grooving plane. Listed in the 1869 Maine Business Directory
at 200 Fore St.
Bradley, Peter H.** Portland
-1869-
Tools
Made: Adzes
Remarks: Bradley designed and made an improved adz with a two piece blade, which
could be pressed over the handle and held in place by a wood or metal plug.
No known examples survive of this adz.
Bragg,
H.** Cornville
Tools
Made: Axes
Remarks:
The Davistown Museum has a broad ax (photograph) marked H.BRAGG | CORNVILLE in the Maritime IV collection. Is there a relationship between this Bragg and the other
Braggs listed below?
Bragg, H.A. Katahdin
-1856-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1856 Maine Business Directory as an edge toolmaker.
Bragg, N.H. & Sons** Bangor
-1889-
Tools
Made: Blacksmith Tools
Remarks: Copy of bill courtesy of Raymond Strout.
Bragg, William B. Skowhegan
-1871-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools and Shovels
Bragg, Z.O.**
Rockland -1869-
Tools
Made: Shipsmith
Remarks:
Listed in the 1869 Maine Business Directory.
Breck & Weymouth Clinton
-1856-
Tools Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: This company is listed in the 1856 Maine Business Directory as an edge
toolmaker.
Breck, William D.* Clinton
1855-1866
Tools Made: Axes
Remarks: Could this be
the son of William D. Breck of Waterville? Was this William D. Breck
associated with Breck & Weymouth?
Breck, William
D. Waterville -1800-
Tools
Made: Axes
Brett, Rufus* Phillips
-1855-1856-
Tools
Made: Axes and Edge Tools
Remarks:
He is listed in the 1855 and 1856 Maine Business Directories. Don
Yeaton has recently (2003) found an ax signed Rufus Brett Phillips.
Brewer
Tools
Made: Axes
Bridges, J.**
Ellsworth -1856-
Tools Made: Shipsmith
Remarks: Listed in the
1856 Maine Business Directory.
Brigdon*
Bridgdon 1816-1832
Tools
Made: Axes
Briggs, S.E. Caribou
-1899-1900-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools
Broad, E.**Bangor
-1855-
Tools
Made: Slicks
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1855 Maine Business Directory as an edge toolmaker. A
16" long slick has been found (photograph) marked E. BROAD |
BANGOR | WARRANTED. The closeup of the mark is
from a drawshave. DATM (1999) lists several Broads working from 1857
to 1901 in New Brunswick, Canada who made edge tools. E.&J.W.
Broad were in St. John in 1857. The E. is for Elisha Broad.
They were succeeded by E & H BROAD | CAST STEEL | ST. JOHN,
N.B. from 1862 - 1866. This was a partnership of
Elisha and Hewlett Broad, who were brothers. It is unknown what Hewlett
did immediately after 1866, but from 1881 - 1901, Hewlett used the mark: H.BROAD
| ST. JOHN. Elisha was not known to work alone,
and in 1871 - 1883 he used the mark E. BROAD | MILLTOWN. In 1883
the company name was changed to E. Broad & Son. In 1885 he added
a second son and changed the name to Elisha Broad & Sons. One
of the sons was named Harry W. In 1885 this company also moved from
Milltown to nearby St. Stephen and used the old Douglas Axe Mfg. Co. factory
located there. After Elisha died in 1895, they became the St. Stephen
Edge Tool Co. It is unknown if there is any relationship between
the earlier E. Broad working in Bangor in mid-century and this Broad clan.
Broad, Hollis China
-1856-
Tools
Made: Axes
Brock, William D.** Clinton
-1855-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1855 Maine Business Directory as an edge toolmaker.
Is this a different person from the William D. Breck of Clinton, who made
axes?
Brodigan, L. Biddeford
-1869-1871-
Tools
Made: Files
Brooks Hdw. Augusta
-1899-1900-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools
Brown, A.D. Augusta
circa 1855
Tools
Made: Shovels
Brown, Cyrus Fayette
-1855-1856-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks:
He is listed in the 1855 and 1856 Maine Business Directories as an edge
toolmaker.
Brown, James W. Woodstock
-1862-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Brown, John**
Pemaquid, Woolwich, Bristol 1622-1659
(b. 1604, d. 1659)
Tools Made: Blacksmith,
Mason
Remarks: Probably Maine's
earliest toolmaker. See the Davistown Museum information file on John
Brown for more information.
Brown, John St.
Albans -1855-1856-
Tools
Made: Axes and Edge Tools
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1855 Maine Business Directory.
Brown, N.A.* Richmond
1886-1889
Tools Made: Axes
Brownson, Herbert S.**
Portland
Tools Made: Screwdrivers
Remarks: Brownson obtained
patent 344160, 6/22/1886, information courtesy of C.D. Fales.
Bryant, Alonzo Montville
-1879-1880
Tools
Made: Farm Tools including winnowing mills
Bryant, E.A.** Bath
-1882-
Tools Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: Listed in the
1882 Maine Business Directory on Water St.
Bryant, Samuel** Portland
-1855-
Tools Made: Pump and
Block Makers
Remarks: He is listed
in the 1855 Maine Registry and Business Directory.
Buck, Amos**
Eastport -1856-
Tools Made: Shipsmith
Remarks: Listed in the
1856 Maine Business Directory.
Budge, James Thomas*
Lee -1840-1890-
Tools Made: Blacksmith
Remarks: "He spent his
early days on the farm, and in early manhood learned the blacksmith's trade.
After becoming of age he worked at that business about sixteen years in
this town. In 1863 he engaged in trade and continued at that business
for fifteen years, when he sold out and again went into blacksmithing with
his son, which business he is now following." (Godfrey,
1882, History of Penobscot County, Maine pg. 893).
Burbank & Allamby**
Bangor -1855-
Tools Made: Brass Founders
and Finishers
Remarks: Listed in the
1855 Maine Registry and Business Directory.
Burgin, Lewis**
Eastport -1856-
Tools Made: Shipsmith
Remarks: Listed in the
1856 Maine Business Directory.
Burkett, N.H. Union
-1879-
Tools
Made: Farm Tools including mowing machines and horse products
Burnham, J.B.** Calais
-1882-
Tools Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: Listed in the
1882 Maine Business Directory.
Burnham, J.H.** Blue Hill
-1855-
Tools Made: Wheelwright
Remarks: He is listed
in the 1855 Maine Registry and Business Directory.
Burns & Buxton** Portland
-1855-
Tools Made: Pump and
Block Makers
Remarks: Listed in the
1855 Maine Registry and Business Directory.
Burrowes
Co., Edward T. Portland
1878-1928
Tools
Made: Levels, Rules and Wooden Planes
Remarks: DATM notes Burrowes,
"was primarily a maker of a sliding wire screen patented in 1878; the tools
he marked were special types used to install that screen" including
a sliding and folding rule patented 24 Mar. 1891. Burrowes made one
plane in particular in large quantities, as it has frequently appeared
in tool chests and collections purchased by the Liberty Tool Co. over the
past thirty years, and that is the screen making plane. Burrowes'
mark is printed on the side of this screen making plane in large block
letters (E.T. BURROWES CO., MANUFACTURERS, PORTLAND MAINE,
and other variations). According to Pollak, pg. 69-70, the plane
bearing the firm name was part of the installation package for the screen.
The Davistown Museum has a 12" level (photo) marked E.
T. BURROWES CO. | PORTLAND, ME. in the IR: Classic
machinist's tools collection. Twenty four examples of a brass
tag stating MADE BY / E.T.BURROWES & CO / PULL / WIRE SCREENS
/ PORTLAND,ME. are in the Bob Jones collection.
This company also made furniture items such as pool tables and cedar chests.
We have received a report of an old crank phonograph in a cabinet marked
Burrowes of Portland, Maine.
Bussel, Ethan*
Wellington 1885-1895
Tools
Made: Axes
Remarks: There was also a T.H. Bussell that worked in Wellington starting around
1885; perhaps this was a brother or another relative, and the name has
been misspelled.
Bussell, T.H. Wellington
-1869-1925
Tools
Made: Axes, Chisels, Drawshaves, etc.
Remarks: He
is listed in the 1869, 1879, 1881, and 1882 Maine Business Directory.
Buswell, Turner H.** Brighton
-1855-1856-
Tools
Made: Edge Tools
Remarks: He is listed in the 1855 and 1856 Maine Business Directories as an edge
toolmaker. In 1856 his name was spelled Bussell. Could this
be the T.H. Bussell reported later in Wellington or a relative?
Butler & Haines Bangor
Tools
Made: Saws
Remarks: Reported
also as Butler and Haynes, the maker signature was BUTLER &
HAINES | BANGOR, ME | WARRANTED CAST STEEL with the name
line curved.
Butler, Daniel W.** Liberty
-1860-
Tools Made: Blacksmith
Remarks: Listed in the
1860 census.
Butterfield,
Andrew** East Wilton
1836- (d.1866)
Tools
Made: Blacksmith
Remarks:
He bought his father, Issac's shop from Samuel Pease in 1836 and partnered
with Calvin Keyes in 1839. This information
is from the notes of W. A. "Chet" Sweat of Farmington, ME.
Butterfield,
Issac, Jr.** East Wilton
1803-1817 (b.1750 d. 1817)
Tools
Made: Blacksmith, Quarrying Tools