inventor, manufacturer, b. Seneca County, N.Y. He moved with his parents to Ohio in 1833, and in 1849 went to Saginaw, Mich., where he worked as a carpenter and millwright. During the Civil War he served with the 6th Michigan Cavalry (1862-1865), and in 1866 moved to Milwaukee where he built and operated a shingle mill. From 1870 to 1873 he manufactured and sold sawmill machinery under his own patents, and in 1873 contracted with E. P. Allis (q.v.) to build a sawmill department for the E. P. Allis Co. He was head of that department from 1873 until his death. In 1885 he designed the first band sawmill in the U.S. which was installed at Prentice, Wis., for the Jump River Lumber Co. Amer. Lumbermen (3 ser., Chicago, 1905, 1906); J. A. Watrous, Memoirs of Milwaukee Co. (2 vols., Madison, 1909); Chicago Amer. Lumberman, Dec. 23, 1905.Learn More
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