The Albany & Troy Stove Industry, From Start to Finish:
1808-1936
It should already be clear from other working documents on this site that Albany and
Troy were vitally important in the origins and development of the U.S. stove industry,
through the 1870s at least. Luckily for me, three other researchers (John G. and Diana
S. Waite in the 1970s, Tammis K. Groft in the 1980s)1 have done the hard work of
reading through local newspapers, city directories, and other sources (notably local
histories) to compile very full lists of stovemakers and the years in which there is
evidence of their having been in business. Of their lists, Groft’s is much the richer, in
that she deals with Albany as well as Troy. She also includes, and distinguishes
among, different kinds of stovemaking enterprise – those described as “manufacturers
and dealers,” which, particularly in the early years of the industry’s existence, often
meant that they bought in stove plate from Pennsylvania and New Jersey furnaces for
assembly and sale; those described as “stove factories,” which probably meant that
they contracted out their founding to other local firms; and those recorded as having a
foundry of their own, the heart of the enterprise. The one major omission from either
list is that neither the Waites nor Groft included independent pattern-makers within
their working definition of the stove industry – a significant gap, given patternmakers’ leading role as the industry’s product designers and “serial patentees.”
At first glance the combined list I have compiled from their/these and other?2 sources
gives the impression of an industry characterized by huge instability. There were at
least 349 (recorded) stove manufacturers in these two small cities over a 130 year
period, but concentrated into the mid C19th. The average (mean) life of each
recorded enterprise was 5.9 years; the median was just three. Many came and went in
the flickering of an eye.
This impression is misleading. Turnover there obviously was, in a dynamic industry
of small units afflicted by recurrent depressions. But much of the apparent instability
is a simple reflection of the industry’s proprietary nature, where the partnership or
family firm was the commonest kind of business type. Brothers, cousins and sons
joined and left family firms, partners came and went, recombining with other local
stove makers. The result is that there is far more turnover of enterprise names than of
businesses themselves, which carried on making the same things, in much the same
way, and in the same place, for periods extending sometimes over several decades and
under a number of different names.
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There was actually a great deal of continuity within the local stove manufacturing
industry, particularly during its most prosperous decades from the 1830s through the
1870s. The elements of this continuity (apart from that provided by products and
business methods) are three:
John G. and Diana S. Waite, “Stovemakers of Troy, New York,” Antiques Jan. 1973 (offprint);
Tammis K. Groft, Cast With Style: Nineteenth Century Cast-Iron Stoves from the Albany Area
(Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1984 rev’d ed.), pp. 111-20.
2
Particularly Arthur J. Weise, The City of Troy and Its Vicinity (Troy: Edward Green, 1886) and Troy’s
One Hundred Years (Troy: William H. Young, 1891).
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1. Entrepreneurial survival. James Wager, for example, continued in the same
business, on the same site, for decades – as junior partner in Geer, Wager &
Co., 1838-39; sole proprietor, trading under his own name, 1840-44; senior
partner in Wager & Dater, 1844-48, Wager & Pratt 1847-52 (partnerships
were not easy or quick to wrap up, given partners’ joint liability), Wager,
Smith & Co. 1852-53, and Wager, Richmond & Smith 1853-54. In 1855 he
was again a sole proprietor, acquiring a new partner, Albert Fox, in 1856, who
stayed with him until 1859, being replaced then by Andrew Fales. They
remained together until 1871. James then had another year as sole proprietor,
before organizing the Wager Stove Co., a family firm that remained in
business until 1902 (though after 1878 it is no longer recorded as operating the
6th Street Foundry, but simply as manufacturer and dealer).
2. Foundries. Albany and Troy have similar geography – flood-prone plains
alongside the Hudson, then steep hillslopes up to a plateau. Foundries
required quite large, flat sites, ideally with water power, and certainly with
easy river access to minimize the cost of cartage – an average-sized midcentury firm was handling well over a thousand tons of raw materials in, and a
little less than a thousand tons of product out, the difference being made up by
fuel and by waste sand and unusable scrap, which could be dumped on site.
Foundries also had distinctive buildings and equipment not readily adapted to
other purposes. The result was that a comparatively few suitable foundry sites
provided homes to a succession of firms over the decades. Stratton and Son,
for example, set up Troy’s 6th Street foundry in 1828, operating it until at least
1838; James Wager took over not later than 1840, and occupied it until at least
1878; Wager’s former partner Harvey Smith shared the same site with Wager
from 1855 to 1861, as Smith and Sheldon, his partner Frederick Sheldon
continuing from 1863 to 1873 as Sheldon and Greene, with Chauncey O.
Greene carrying on as a sole proprietor from 1874 until 1885, i.e. beyond the
Wager firm’s withdrawal from the business of making its own castings. A
similar story of successive firms and partnerships could be told for Albany’s
and Troy’s other major stove foundries (e.g. the Albany City Furnace, 18371888; Eagle Furnace, 1808-1889; Montgomery St. Foundry, 1840-1919;
Troy’s Clinton Foundry, 1850-1932; Empire Foundry, 1841-1905; Green
Island Foundry, 1836-91; Mechanic Street Furnace, 1823-1864; Oakwood
Foundry, 1861-1916).
3. Patterns. When one firm succeeded another in the stove business, a part of
what it bought or leased, as well as a foundry site and ‘goodwill’ (the
customer list), was the pattern stock, comprising both an existing product line
and the ability to supply replacement parts for old stoves.3 This could be a
very profitable business, extending years or decades beyond the end of a
stove’s life as a marketable new product. As the list of 1875 Albany and Troy
stove names reveals, for example, Marcus L. Filley, who had taken over the
Green Island Foundry from Morrison & Tibbits in 1854, was still prepared to
supply parts for stoves whose names indicate their age – the Darien, Panama,
and Placer, from the Gold Rush era; the New York & Erie, commemorating
the railroad line’s opening in 1852.
3
Newberry, Filley & Co., Green Island Foundry & Stove Works, Circular, 1854 [NYSL, broadsides
collection].
2
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The end result of all of these processes of entrances to and exits from the stove
business, together with the multiple entries in the record that a single stove
manufacturer such as James Wager could generate from his multiple changes of
partners and business name, is that the 349 records in the Waites’ and Tammis Groft’s
lists of stove firms actually boil down to far fewer separate businesses, with
considerable continuity among them through the middle years of the nineteenth
century. The following chart shows the number of stove makers active in Albany and
Troy for every year from 1815, when the total first exceeded one, until 1936, when
the last closed its doors.
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
1815
1825
1835
1845
1855
1865
1875
1885
1895
1905
1915
1925
1935
The industry really took off in the late 1820s, more on the basis of assembling boughtin stoveplate rather than local manufacture; the establishment of local foundries
followed very shortly, in the late 1820s-early 1830s; after the economic uncertainties
of the 1830s and mid-1840s, the industry then entered a rapid growth phase which
lasted for a decade. (This was also, of course, the period when Albany and Troy were
establishing themselves as the stove design capital of the United States.)
Overdevelopment and the panic of 1857 brought a sharp reversal; but essentially, by
c. 1850, Albany and Troy had reached almost their maximum development, in terms
of the number of separate stove manufacturing firms, and were entering into the
quarter century during which they would continue as the industry’s largest and in
many ways most dynamic production center. In the late 1870s, however, absolute
decline began: unlike previous business collapses in the late 1850s and immediate
post-Civil War periods, this one was not reversed. Withdrawals from business of the
smaller enterprise, or consolidation with the larger ones (which took over smaller
firms’ patterns and markets), were orderly processes which took the Albany-Troy
region to the margins of a stagnating industry by the 1900s.
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NAME
Daniels, Warner
James (Wm. T.) & Cornell's
Spencer, Thomas
Spencer (John), Daniels (Warner) & Co.
Starbuck (Nathaniel) & Gurley (Ephrain)
Stafford (Spencer), Benedict (Lewis) & Co.
Corning (Erastus) & Norton (John T.)
Heermans (Thomas), Rathbone (Joel) & Co.
Henry, Jacob
Stratton & Son, L.
Kittle, Daniel S.
Tallmadge & Parker (Sylvester)
Stratton, R.M., & Co.
Cornell, Latham
Starbuck, N. (Nathaniel), & Son
Fellows, John P.
Low, Peter
Nott, Eliphalet
Utter, Samuel
Henry (Jacob) & Heiser (Godfrey)
Rathbone, Joel
Nott (Howard) & Co.
Many (William V.) & Ward (Robert E.)
Low, Francis S.
Whitney, William
Austin, Anthony H.
Parker, Sylvester
Albany Soapstone Manufactory
Rathbone (Joel) & Silliman (Levi)
Gill (Benjamin), Cooper (William) & Co.
Eggleston, Daniel G.
French, M. (Maynard)
Thomas (Benjamin) & Potts (Jesse)
Pratt (Elisha) & Treadwell (John G.)
Johnson (Elias) & Geer (Gilbert)
De Groff (Oliver G.) & Co.
Cottrell (Cotrel), Samuel
Henry, Jacob & Co.
Stratton, Alexander M.
Iggett's (John)
Fellows, J. & A.
Rathbone (Joel) & Co. (Andrew Sparhawk)
Thomas (Benjamin) & Wells
Barten & Roberts
Low (Peter) & Co.
Morrison (John) & Manning (Wm.) {1}
Many, William V.
Pratt, Elisha
Hoffman (Levi) & Potts (Jesse)
Halsteds & Barton
Geer, Wager & Co.
CITY
Albany
Troy
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Albany
Albany
Albany
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
START
1808
1815
1818
1820
1821
1824
1825
1828
1828
1828
1828
1829
1829
1829
1829
1829
1830
1830
1830
1830
1830
1830
1830
1830
1830
1830
1830
1831
1833
1833
1833
1834
1834
1834
1834
1834
1835
1835
1835
1835
1835
1835
1836
1836
1836
1836
1837
1837
1837
1838
1838
END
1824
1823
1824
1825
1829
1825
1829
1832
1834
1838
1842
1829
1829
1834
1846
1848
1830
1831
1832
1833
1835
1835
1836
1837
1839
1839
1843
1834
1835
1835
1836
1834
1835
1836
1841
1849
1835
1836
1839
1840
1840
1844
1836
1837
1838
1843
1843
1843
1847
1838
1839
DURATION
16
8
6
5
8
1
4
4
6
10
14
1
1
5
17
19
1
1
2
3
5
5
6
7
9
9
13
3
2
2
3
1
1
2
7
15
1
1
4
5
5
9
1
1
2
7
6
6
10
1
1
4
Type
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Stove Fac.
Foundry
Stove Fac.
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Stove Fac.
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Stove Fac.
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Stove Fac.
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
William Cobb's Furnace
Willard, George P.
Townsend, Franklin & Co.
Davy & Cotrel
Northrop, Nelson
Harvey (Robert) & Treadwell (William B.)
Austin, Henry
Ransom (Samuel) & Rathbone (John F.)
Wager, James {1}
McCoy (S.B.) & Quackenboss (Augustus)
Heermance, G.G.
Shear, J. (Jacob) H.
Stewart, Philo P.
Atwood, Anson
Davy, John T.
Johnson (Elias), Geer (Gilbert) & Cox (David B.)
Seymour & Whitney
Treadwell (William B.) & Perry (John S.)
Atwood (Anson) & Cole (Spencer)
Morrison, John (Green Island Stove Wks)
Wager (James) & Dater
Jagger (Ira), Treadwell (William B.) & Perry (John S.)
Johnson (Elias), Perry (John S.) & Cox (David B.)
Viall, House
Fayerweather, Joseph H.
Vose, Samuel C.
Low (Peter) & Co.
Morrison, John & Son
Blanchard, Alonzo
Anthony (John), Davy (John T.) & Co.
Rathbone (Joel) & Co. (Benjamin Thomas & Addison Low)
Treadwell (William B.), Jagger (Ira) & Perry (John S.)
Low (Francis) & Co.
Ransom, S. (Samuel) H. & Co.
Atwood (Anson), Cole (Spencer) & Crane (Isaac)
Rathbone (John F.) & Baker (Charles)
Geer (Gilbert) & Bosworth (Nathaniel)
Johnson (Elias) & Cox (David B.)
Quackenboss, Augustus
Dunham, A.T. & Co.
Cole (Spencer) & Crane
Viall & Warren
Wager & Pratt
Geer, Gilbert
Potts (Jesse) & Co.
Rathbone (John F.) & Co.
Low (Peter) & Hicks (George W.)
McCoy (S.B.), Clark & Co.
Eddy, Charles
Wilson, R.I.
Lamb (Patrick) & Mosley (Rupert)
Cole, Spencer
Tremere, James
Pease, Keeney & Co.
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
1838
1839
1839
1840
1840
1840
1840
1840
1840
1840
1840
1840
1840
1841
1841
1841
1842
1844
1844
1844
1844
1844
1845
1845
1845
1845
1845
1845
1845
1845
1845
1845
1845
1845
1846
1846
1846
1846
1846
1846
1847
1847
1847
1847
1847
1847
1847
1847
1847
1847
1848
1848
1848
1848
1850
1839
1854
1840
1842
1843
1844
1844
1844
1846
1847
1850
1850
1843
1844
1845
1843
1844
1845
1847
1848
1852
1845
1846
1846
1847
1847
1848
1848
1849
1850
1853
1855
1855
1846
1846
1847
1850
1854
1854
1847
1848
1848
1851
1852
1853
1853
1854
1856
1875
1849
1849
1849
1849
12
1
15
1
2
3
4
4
4
6
7
10
10
2
3
4
1
1
1
3
4
8
1
1
1
2
2
3
3
4
5
8
10
10
1
1
1
4
8
8
1
1
1
4
5
6
6
7
9
28
1
1
1
1
5
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Stove Fac.
Mfr & Dealer
Stove Fac.
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Stove Fac.
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Orcutt & Co.
Delehanty, Michael
Vose & Co.
Baker, Charles
Lamb, Patrick W.
Viall, House & Mann
Wager (James), Pratt (David) & Co.
Faye (Josiah) & Co.
Morrison (Alexander) & Tibbits
Tremere (James) & Wands (Thomas O.)
Van Wormer & McGarvey
Pasco, E.L.
Clark, Keeney & Co.
Zieser, Michael
Davy (John T.), Anthony (John) & Phillips (Geo. H.)
Cox, A. (Abraham)
Cole, S. (Spencer) & Co.
Johnson (Elias), Cox (David) & Fuller (Joseph)
Stewart (Philo P.) & Flack (Jaes W.)
Henderson, Joseph C.
Goodwin & Co.
Weller (Nicholas) & Co.
Keeney, Felton & Co.
Humphrey, George
Geer (Gilbert), Chaffey & Richmond
Felton, Keeney & Co.
Shear (Jacob) & Packard (Joseph) & Co.
Wager (James), Smith & Co.
Davy (John T.), Ingraham (W.H.) & Phillips (Geo. H.)
Swett (Geo. W.), Quimby (Julius) & Co. {1}
Eddy, George W.
Geer, Chaffey & Co.
Wager (James), Richmond & Smith
Weller (Nicholas) & Goodwin (Stephen) & Bassett (Daniel E.)
Treadwell (William B.) & Perry (John S.)
Rathbone (John F.) & Kennedy (James C.)
Potter (Louis) & Co.
Cox (Abraham), Warren (J.H.), Morrison (Alex) & Co.
Mallary & Ingalls {1}
Sanders & Wolfe
Low (Peter) & Hakes (Hicks??)
Hicks, George W.
Weller (Anton) & Goodwin (Stephen)
Johnson, Elias
Newberry (Lucius), Filley (Marcus) & Co.
Geer (Gilbert) & Co.
Faye, Josiah C.
Starbuck Bros.
Hyde, James R.
Quackenboss & Wasson
Sanders, Wolfe & Warren
Wager, James {2}
Lee & Smith
Fuller (J.W.), Warren (J.H.) & Morrison (James Jr.)
Albany
Albany
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
1848
1848
1848
1848
1849
1849
1849
1849
1849
1849
1849
1849
1850
1850
1850
1850
1850
1850
1850
1850
1851
1851
1851
1851
1851
1851
1851
1852
1852
1852
1852
1853
1853
1853
1853
1853
1853
1854
1854
1854
1854
1854
1854
1854
1854
1854
1854
1854
1854
1855
1855
1855
1855
1855
1850
1855
1861
1863
1852
1852
1852
1853
1854
1854
1855
1862
1850
1851
1851
1852
1852
1853
1854
1855
1851
1851
1851
1852
1852
1852
1869
1853
1857
1869
1875
1853
1854
1854
1855
1857
1862
1854
1854
1854
1855
1856
1856
1857
1858
1862
1863
1884
1896
1855
1855
1855
1857
1858
2
7
13
15
3
3
3
4
5
5
6
13
1
1
1
2
2
3
4
5
1
1
1
1
1
1
18
1
5
17
23
1
1
1
2
4
9
1
1
1
1
2
2
3
4
8
9
30
42
1
1
1
2
3
6
Foundry
Stove Fac.
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Mallary, Ingalls & Tibbits
Treadwell (William B.), Perry (John S.) & Norton (Edward)
McCoy (Shibboleth B.) & Clark (Stephen W.)
Smith (Harvey) & Sheldon (Frederick A.)
Ransom, S. (Samuel) H. & Co.
Hicks, G. (George) W. & E. (Edward) J.
Wolfe (Gordon) & Warren (Charles)
Wager (James) & Fox (Albert)
Nutt, James E., & Co.
Noys, W.J.
Howell, Martin R.
Young, Thomas
Palmer (Caleb) & Lape (Henry)
Palmer, Peter A., & Co.
Eddy (Charles) & Co.
Ingraham (Anson) & Phillips (Geo. H.)
Lee, James
Munsell, Thompson & Munsell
Morrison, James Jr., & Co.
Mallary & Ingalls {2}
Wager, Fox & Co.
Billings (John N.) & Stow (F.K.)
Tremere, James A.
Bussey, Esek
Young (Thomas) & Cook (Charles)
Hicks (Edward J.), Wolfe (Gordon G.) & Co.
Buswell (William) & Durant (William C.)
Fuller (Joseph W.), Warren (J.H.) & Co.
Filley, Marcus L.
Davy (John T.) & Cure (Burrows)
Munsell & Thompson
Nutt (James) & O' Brien (John)
Morrison, James Jr.
Tibbits (Thomas M.) & McCoun (John)
Howell & Co.
Wasson, Christopher C.
Wager (James) & Fales (Andrew)
Rathbone (John F.) & Co.
Treadwell (William B.) & Perry (John S.)
Stow (Fred R.) & White (Andrew)
Davy (John T.) & Lape
Higgins, McLeod & Martin
Marston (Perrom M.) & Tibbits (Wm. H.)
Lamb, Patrick W.
Goewey, John A.
Townsend, Franklin
Tremere (James) & Lape (Rufus)
O' Brien, John & Son
Potter (Louis) & Paris (Daniel)
Wilcox (Alanson), Morand (Wm.), Keep {tkg: Keyes} (Chester) & Co.
Bussey (Esek), McLeod (Charles) & Martin (Thomas)
Riley (John), McConihe (Douglas) & Hay (Gordon)
Cox (David B.) & Church (Harvey)
Hoellinger, J.C.
Troy
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
1855
1855
1855
1855
1855
1856
1856
1856
1856
1857
1857
1857
1857
1857
1857
1858
1858
1859
1859
1859
1859
1859
1859
1859
1859
1859
1859
1859
1859
1860
1860
1860
1860
1860
1860
1860
1860
1860
1861
1861
1861
1861
1861
1861
1861
1861
1862
1862
1862
1863
1863
1863
1863
1863
1858
1860
1860
1861
1880
1858
1858
1858
1859
1859
1859
1861
1864
1864
1868
1862
1862
1859
1859
1859
1859
1860
1860
1861
1862
1866
1867
1881
1891
1860
1860
1862
1862
1862
1862
1866
1867
1872
1861
1861
1861
1862
1862
1862
1863
1866
1864
1866
1867
1863
1863
1863
1864
1866
3
5
5
6
25
2
2
2
3
2
2
4
7
7
11
4
4
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
3
7
8
22
32
1
1
2
2
2
2
6
7
12
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
5
2
4
5
1
1
1
1
3
7
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Jagger (Ira) & Littlefield (D.G.)
Ingraham (Anson), Phillips (Geo. H.) & Co.
Morrison (James Jr.) & Colwell (Thomas)
Sheldon (Frederick A.) & Greene (Chauncey O.)
Doyle, William
Morand (Wm.) & Clark (Seth)
Riley (John) & McConihe (Douglas)
Bussey (Esek) & McLeod (Charles)
Morrison, Alexander
Perry & Co.
Palmer, C. (Caleb) W.
Cox, Church & Co.
Bussey (Esek), McLeod (Charles) & Co.
Giles, Henry G.
Stewart, Philo P.
Littlefield Stove Mfg. Co.
Cahoone (Edwin R.), Norton (G.A.) & Co.
Gibbs, S.W.
Buswell (William), Durant (William) & Co.
Davidson, J.M.B. & Co.
Co-operative Foundry (Co-operative Iron Founders Association)
Hicks (Edward J.) & Wolfe (Gordon G.)
Giles, Henry G., & Son
Richardson, Jonathan
Swett (Geo. W.), Quimby (Julius) & Perry (Samuel)
Burdett (George C.), Paris (Daniel) & Co.
Andrus, David, Jr. & Backus, Rodman
Ingraham, A. (Anson) & W. (William) H.
Wager, Fales & Co.
Albany Union Foundry
Albany Temperance Furnace (Oliver G. De Grofft)
Phillips, George H., & Co.
Backus (Rodman) & Co.
Eddy & Corse
Shavor & Henderson {1}
Burdett (George C.), Potter (Louis), Smith (Storer) & Co.
Union Foundry Co.
Paris, Daniel E.
Capital Co-Operative Foundry
Treadwell Stove Mfg. Co.
Palmer (Caleb) & Hicks (Charles R.)
Eddy (Charles) & Corse (A.C.)
Pierce (Charles W.) & Backus (Ebenezer)
Southwick (Pliney W.) & Arnold (John)
Gibbs, S.W. & Co.
Anderson (John) & Breen (Miles)
Backus (Rodman), Button (Levi M.) & Co.
Ingraham, A. (Anson) & Co.
Church, H. (Harvey) & H. (Henry) S.
Quackenbush, John H.
Potter (Charles E.) & Co.
Paris, Daniel E., & Co.
Burdett (George C.), Smith (Storer) & Co., Inc.
Wager, James {3}
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Albany
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
1863
1863
1863
1863
1863
1864
1864
1864
1864
1864
1865
1865
1865
1866
1866
1866
1867
1867
1867
1867
1867
1867
1867
1867
1867
1868
1868
1868
1868
1868
1868
1868
1869
1869
1869
1869
1869
1869
1869
1869
1869
1869
1870
1870
1871
1871
1871
1871
1871
1871
1871
1871
1871
1872
1866
1867
1872
1873
1888
1864
1864
1865
1867
1888
1868
1870
1882
1866
1868
1919
1867
1870
1871
1872
1873
1877
1879
1880
1883
1868
1868
1870
1871
1873
1873
1883
1869
1869
1869
1870
1871
1873
1874
1876
1876
1878
1870
1872
1873
1873
1873
1874
1876
1876
1882
1891
1916
1872
3
4
9
10
25
1
1
1
3
24
3
5
17
1
2
53
1
3
4
5
6
10
12
13
16
1
1
2
3
5
5
15
1
1
1
1
2
4
5
7
7
9
1
2
2
2
2
3
5
5
11
20
45
1
8
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Smith (Elihu) & Co.
Shavor & Henderson {2}
Fales, A. (Andrew) B.
Gardner (George W.) & Co.
Wager Stove Co. {1}
Rathbone (John F.) & Sard (Granger)
Troy Co-operative Co. (Troy Co-operative Foundry)
Greene, C.O.
Giles Stove Co. {1}
Skinner (John), Gould (Archibald) & Co.
Albany Stove Co.
McClellan & Co.
Mohawk & Hudson Mfg. Co.
McClellan & Co.
McClusker, Arthur & Co.
Keep, William J. & Co.
Paris, Merritt E., & Co.
Henderson, J.C.
Church, H. (Henry) S.
Dickerman, J.E.
Van Wormer, J. & Co.
Wells, Henry J.
Wolfe Stove Co.
Corse (A.C.) & Co.
Co-operative Stove Works
Keep, W.J.
Mahony, M(ichael)
Standley & Son
Gould, J. & Co. {1}
Ransom Stove Wks
Fuller (F.W.) & Warren (J.H.) Co.
Stowe, F.H.
Victor Stove Co.
Velsey & Chase
Swett (Geo. W.), Quimby (Julius) & Co. {2}
Standard Oil Stove Co.
Barnard, E. (Verton)
Burden (F.F.) & Stowe (F.H.)
Mann, Herbert R.
Burtis (O.F.) & Mann (H.R.)
Bussey (Esek) & McLeod (Charles) Stove Co.
Rathbone, Sard & Co.
Phillips (Geo. H.) & Clark (Walter A.)
Lape (Henry), Ten Broeck (S.H.), & Lape (Burton)
Stewart, William
Gould, J. & Co. {2}
Velsey, C.M., & Co.
Troy Architectural Iron Wks Foundry
Wood, W. (William) H., Foundry Co.
Henderson, J.C. & Co.
Wager Stove Co. {2}
Swett, George W., & Co.
Van Hagen, J., & Sons
Velsey, C.M.
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
1872
1872
1872
1873
1873
1873
1874
1874
1874
1875
1875
1876
1876
1876
1876
1876
1876
1876
1877
1877
1877
1878
1878
1879
1879
1880
1880
1881
1881
1881
1881
1882
1882
1883
1883
1883
1883
1883
1883
1883
1883
1883
1884
1884
1884
1884
1884
1884
1885
1885
1886
1886
1886
1888
1874
1876
1907
1875
1878
1883
1878
1885
1889
1881
1895
1876
1876
1876
1879
1881
1881
1890
1883
1883
1905
1878
1882
1881
1891
1881
1883
1882
1882
1895
1932
1882
1890
1883
1885
1885
1887
1887
1891
1893
1898
1925
1884
1884
1884
1887
1887
1892
1897
1901
1886
1894
1904
1888
2
4
35
2
5
10
4
11
15
6
20
1
1
1
3
5
5
14
6
6
28
1
4
2
12
1
3
1
1
14
51
1
8
1
2
2
4
4
8
10
15
42
1
1
1
3
3
8
12
16
1
8
18
1
9
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Paris Mfg. Co.
Mosher, M.J.
Doyle, William C. & Co.
Wager Stove Co. {3}
Giles Stove Co. {2}
Perry Stove Co.
Phillips (Geo. H.) & Clark (Walter A.) Stove Co.
Hoyt (James) & Wynkoop
Carroll & Co.
Swett, George W.
Mosher, M.J. & M.R.
West Side Foundry Co.
Wager Stove Co. {4}
Empire Stove Wks (Estate Of Geo. Swett)
Hoyt, James B.
Ransom Repair Wks
Wager Stove Co. {5}
Gold Coin Stove Co. (Esek Bussey)
Mosher, M.J. & Co.
Albany foundry co.
Mosher Mfg. Co.
Van Hagen, John E.
Henderson, Frank
Mosher Heating Co.
Burdett, Smith & Co., Inc.
Gold Coin Foundry Co.
Standard Gas Equipment Co.
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Troy
Albany
Albany
1888
1888
1889
1889
1889
1889
1890
1892
1894
1894
1894
1894
1895
1895
1896
1896
1898
1899
1900
1900
1901
1902
1902
1904
1917
1918
1926
1893
1893
1889
1889
1890
1896
1916
1895
1894
1894
1899
1906
1896
1905
1896
1899
1902
1916
1900
1903
1903
1904
1915
1910
1936
1920
1927
5
5
1
1
1
7
26
3
1
1
5
12
1
10
1
3
4
17
1
3
2
2
13
6
19
2
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Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry
Mfr & Dealer
Foundry
Foundry