Some information on the addressee, the Emerson Edge Tool Company of Taftsville, VT:
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THE EMERSON EDGE TOOL COMPANY, at East Lebanon, NH, manufactures scythes, corn-knives, and axes, giving employment to about twenty-eight hands, and producing 4,000 dozen scythes, 500 dozen axes, and 100 dozen corn-knives annually.
The concern was first organized at Lebanon in 1856, the firm being A.V. Emerson & Co. This title continued two years, then changed to Emerson & Cummings, who carried on the business about two years, when Mr. Emerson sold his interest to Mr. Cummings, who continued the business under the firm name of Joseph Cummings & Co., for about four years, with A.V. Emerson as foreman.
This firm was succeeded by R.O. Messer & Co., for one year, when A.V. Emerson purchased the property and ran the business alone one year. Next came Emerson & Kendall, about two years, when Mr. Kendall was succeeded by M.W. Emerson, with the firm name of Emerson & Co., who continued about three years and sold to Cummings & Purmort, who ran it in the name of the Mascoma Edge Tool Co., and ran it under that title by M.V. Purmort.
In 1871 A.V. Emerson went to Littleton and started a like manufactory, where he remained only about six months. He next went to Holyoke, Mass., and was engaged with his brother, in the business of testing water-wheels.
In 1873 he went to Taftsville, VT, where the Emerson Edge Tool Co. was organized and continued there nine years. This firm was composed of A.V. Emerson, Enos Dole and A.G. Dewey.
The business is now carried on as first stated, by A.V. Emerson alone, at East Lebanon, under the name of The Emerson Edge Tool Company.
Posted 12/15/2012 08:43 am
