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Index of Axe Makers
of the United States

The following is an ever-growing list of known axe makers of the United States, listed by state. More information on individual makers can be found in the Member's Resource Section.

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ALABAMA

Phelan and McBride

Rogers, ?

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ALASKA

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ARIZONA

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ARKANSAS

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CALIFORNIA

Hunter, Chester

Hunter Edge Tool Co

Hunter, William A

Whipple, Edwared

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COLORADO

Beath, William Henry

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CONNECTICUT

Bradley, Dewitt C.

Bradley, Gershom Wakeman

Bradley, Gershom Warren

Bradley, GW, Sons

Bradley, Miles

Bradley, Wakeman

Collins & Co

Collins Company

Collins, David C.

Collins, Samuel W

Fenn, Leonard

King, Elisha Root

Peck, Seth

PEXTO

Platt, David

Wells, William

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DELAWARE

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DC

Columbia Edge Tool Works

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FLORIDA

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GEORGIA

Blount Turpentine Company

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HAWAII

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IDAHO

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ILLINOIS

Hiles, C A and Co

Van Doren

Vaughan and Bushnell

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INDIANA

American Fork and Hoe Company

Anderson Tool Co

Chicago Axe Co

Evansville Tool Works

Marion Tool Company

Marion Tool Works

Mishawaka Axe 

Smith, JC and JG

Tyler, M H

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IOWA

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KANSAS

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KENTUCKY

Louisville Axe and Tool Company

Kelly Axe Manufacturing Co

W. C. Kelly and Company

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LOUISIANA

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MAINE

Abbott, E.G.

Adams, J.G.

Adams, Roswell Field

Aldrich, Ezra

Aldridge, Ezra

Aldrich and Waterhouse

Allen, John L

American Axe and Tool Co

Ames, Jepthah

Ames, DC

Ames, J F

Ames, JF & DC

Andrews, Joshua G.

Archer, Joel W

Atkins, W J

Atkinson, Joseph

Austin & Davis

Austin, Moses

Avery, Stephen

Bailey, Richard G

Bailey, Richard T

Baker, Amon

Baker, Cyrus M & Amon

Bangor Edge Tool Co

Barker, Daniel J

Barton, Flint

Beath, William Henry

Beedy, Walter C. 

Benjamin, James

Benson, Leon

Berry and Waterhouse

Berry, Elbridge

Billings, John

Billings, George P

Billings, John P

Blake, William

Bodwell, Joseph Fox

Bodwell, Joseph Robinson

Bolton, Thomas

Bolton & Son (T. and Eldgridge, G.)

Bolton Eldridge G. 

Boothby, Noah

Bragg, Hiram A.

Brant and Cochran

Breck, William D.

Breck&Weymouth

Brett, Rufus

Broad, Elisa

Broad, Hollis

Budge, James T.

Bussell, Ethan

Bussell, Turner H

Bussell, Turner H

Campbell, Ambrose S 

Chapman, G F

Chalomer, Charles Cooper

Chellis, Ira

Clark, Fred Hale

Cleveland, Samuel P

Collins, J.W.

Colomy, Isaac J. 

Copp, Timothy

Crieghton&Co

Cumming, Leonard F.

Cummings, Leonard F. 

Cushman, Henry Rust

Cutts, Samuel

Cutts, Samuel Farrington

Dagget, Cyrus

Damon Brothers

Damon, George

Damon, Sumner

Davis, Daniel

Davis, Jacob Adams

Davis, James P

Deering, J.R.

Dennis, Joseph M.

Dennison, Charles

Dingee&Mosher

Doble, Benjamin W.

Doble, Benjamin W. Jr

Doble, Robert

Doble, Ronella Lloyd

Dolbier O.Chester

Dolbier, Ward S.

Dolbier, William

Dolbier, William W.

Dolbier, W S & W

Doughty, Jonas

Douglass, Luther

Dow, Oliver

Drake, Spencer (P.) 

Drew, Moses

Dunn Edge Tool Co

Dunn, Jordan, and Co

Dunn,Reuben Barnes

Dunn, Reuben Wesley

Dunnels, Zachariah

Dunnels and Roberts

Dunton, Copp, and Co

Dunton, Isaac

Durgin Charles S.

Durgin, Jermiah A

Durgin and Son

Durgin, J.A. and C.S.

Durgin, Frank J.

Durgin Scott C. 

Durgin, S.C. and F.J.

Eastman, Samuel

Eastman, Stillman

Ellis & Norton

Ellis, Edwin

Ellis, Norton, and Hunnewell

Emerson and Stevens

Emerson, Luther

Emery, C. & W. D

Emery, Cyrus, and Co.

Emery-Waterhouse Co

Everett, C.O. Saw Co. 

Finney, A.R. 

Finney, A.R. 

Floyd, Gardener

Floyd, Gardener and Stanwood

Floyd, Gardener, and Bolton

Floyd and Son

Foster Edge Tool Co

Foster, H.M. & Co

Foster, Henry M.

Foster, Lewis

French, John, F (L?)

Frost, L.W. 

Gardiner Tool Co

Gilbert, Daniel

Goud, Charles

Graves, Elisha

Graves, H. 

Graves, Samuel G.

Groves, Laforest

Hall, Joseph S.

Hall, Randall C.

Hall, Tilden

Ham, J.B.

Hammond, L J

Hardy, George

Hardy&Sherman

Harman, Nathan

Harper, Samuel

Harper, Samuel, Jr (Same Samuel Harper)

Harris, Darius R

Hart, A.W.

Harvey, William, & Sons

Haskell Brothers

Haskell, Greenleaf G.

Haskell, Isaac W.

Haskell, Josiah

Haskell, Lorenzo B.

Haskell, Wellman H

Heal, Benjamin

Hight, George (Sr)

Hight, Amos

Hight, George (Jr)

Higgins, Arthur M.

Higgins, Jefferson

Higgins, J. & A. M.

Higgins & Webb

Higgins, Micha

Higgins & Libby

Hilton, William O.

Hobby, Charles

Hobby and Parkman

Homer, Benjamin H.

Homer, David C.

Howard Axe Co

Howard, Daniel

Howard, Samuel E.

Hubbard, Blake, and Co.

Hubbard and Blake Mfg. Co.

Hubbard, John U.

Hulett, Avery

Hunnewell, Abel Jackman

Hunnewell&Ellis

Hunnewell and Norton

Hunter, Cyrus

Hurd, William

Island Falls Edge Tool Co. 

Jackson, Thomas C.

Jameson, Samuel

Jaquith, Chas

Jewett, Alva Nathan

Jewett, Nathan

Jordan, William

Judkins, Robert T.

Kelley, Benjamin

Kelly, B. and Company

Kelley, Benjamin and Son

Kelly, Benjamin Junior

Kelly, James

Kendall & Whitney

Kierstead & Barker

Kierstead, Charles

Kimball, David

King Axe Co

King Axe and Tool Co

King, Benjamin Jr

King, John

King, Peter

King&Messer

Kneeland, George S

Knight, Joshua

Knight, Samuel C.

Knight, S.C. & J

Lamb, A

Leonard, Abraham H

Libby & Bolton

Libby, Frank

Libby, John W.

Littlefield, Jacob

Lord&Graves

Lord, Daniel B.

Lord, W.J.

Lovejoy, Collins

Lovejoy, Leonard R

Lovejoy, Stephen H

Lovejoy and Son

Lowe, James

Lycett, James

Mallett, John L

Mallett, James 

Mansfield, Edward

Mansfield and Co

Marquis, Abel

Marsh&Sons

Marsh, Alfred R.

Marsh, Frank A.

Marsh, Franklin I

Marshall, Joel

Maxwell, Alexander

Maxwell, James

Maxwell & Jameson

Maynes, Thomas

Mayo, Franklin M

Mayo, Joseph F.

Mayo, William F.

McDonald, William

McKeen, Frank

McKrew, F M 

Mead, Noah

Means, William H

Messer, Raymond A

Moore, E. Byron

Morrill, John J

Morris, Charles R

Morse, Clifton

Morse, James, B

Morse, Stephen C.

Moulton, Joshua

Mowry, Mortimer Horace

Myers, Asa

Nason, Anson

Nason, Ruel

Neal, Elijah

Newbegin, John

North Wayne Scythe Co

North Wayne Tool Co

Norton, William F 

Orne, W G and C

Osgood, John F & Co

Paine, Freeman

Pardoe, John

Parkman, Absalum

Park, Samuel H

Patten, Horace Wilbert

Payson, John

Payson, John, and Sons

Payson & Howard

Peabody, Washburn

Peasley, John T

Peavey and Burr

Peavey Brothers

Peavey, Charles A. 

Peavey, CA & JH

Peavey, David Howard

Peavey, Hiram

Peavey, James H .

Peavey, Joseph

Peavey Mfg Co

Peavey, Orren

Peavey, Warren

Perry, Barnabus C

Perry, John C

Perry, Samuel B.

Philbrick, R R

Phillips, Isaac A

Pinkham, William R

Preble & Clark

Preble, Charles Henry, and Co.

Proctor&Bowie

Pulcipher, Perlie

Ray, George W.

Ray, Matthew

Record, SJ and Co

Reed, Herbert  G.

Ricker, B&G

Ricker, Benjamin G.

Ricker, George B.

Roberts, Henry L

Robinson, Joseph

Rounds, Nathaniel

Rowe, Orison V.

Roy, Cyprian

Sanders, D T, and Sons

Scott, Hugh

Seavey & Chalmer

Seavey, Charles H

Seymour Mfg Co

Sherman&Co

Sherman&Thompson

Sherman, Elmer A

Sherman, Isaac Holbrook

Shaw & Maynes

Shaw & Patten

Shaw, Samuel P.

Simpson Scythe and Axe Company

Slocomb, C E

Small, Oliver

Smart, Charles

Smith, Joel

Snow&Neally

Spaulding, A. M.

Spiller Axe and Tool Co

Spiller, Harold D. 

Spiller, Harold F.

Spiller, John W.

Spiller, Mark D. and Son

Spiller, Mark Dole

Spiller, Norman W. 

Spofford, Amos

Springer, Robert Bruce

Springer, Thomas

Stanwood, Henry

Staples, James

Staples, James F.

Stevens, George W.

Stevens, Joseph E. 

Steward, Williams, and Co.

Steward, Samuel W

Stimson, Theophilus

Stimson, T & W

Stimson, Woodbury

Stinson, Charles K.

Stinson, John R C

Stinson, John Fredrick

Stinson, William

Stowell, Ralph M

Strickland, Asa

Taber, Anson P. M.

Taber, Collins W.

Taber, J. and Sons

Taber, John Hussey

Taber, Silas W.

Tarr, Alexander

Terrill, D.D. Saw Company

Thaxter, Joseph

Thompson, Horatio Palmer

True, Lyman C.

Tuttle, Rufus

Vaughan, William

Vaughan, Joseph

Vaughan, Joseph and William

Vaughan and Co

Vaughan and Pardoe

Vaughan, Cobb, and Co

Waterhouse, John C

Waterhouse, William H 

Watson, Everett A, Senior

Watson, Everett A, Junior

Webb, Lester

Webb & Nason

Weeks, Frank

Weld, Moses

Weymouth, Gorham F.

Weymouth, William

White, Chandler

White, Charles B

White, Ephraim R.

White, Job

White, William

Whiting, J.R. & Co

Whiting, John R

Whitney, Ephraim

Whorff, Barnett

Whorff, James

Whorff, John and Sons

Whorff and Nason

Williams, Charles A. (and Co)

Williams, Joshua F. 

Williams, Robert

Winn, Japheth

Winn, Japheth M.

Winslow, Asa

Winslow, William

Winslow, William Athearn

Witham, Claude Leroy

Witham, Ephraim

Witham, Ephraim and Son

Witham, G.S.

Witham, Gustavus S. and Son

Witherell, James H.

Woodbury, A.K.

York, Harold E.

Young, Charles L.

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MARYLAND 

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MASACHUSSETTS

Anderson Tool Works

CAC Axe Company

Collins, J W

Holway, Seth

Standard Products Company of Clinton

White, Alfred

Woods, William T. and Co

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MICHIGAN

Barry, Thomas B

Michigan Axe and Tool Company

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MINNESOTA

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MISSISSIPPI

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MISSOURI

American Logging Tool Corpotation

Vivian Ice Tool and Manufacturing Company

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MONTANA

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NEBRASKA

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NEVADA

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NEW HAMPSHIRE

Amoskeag Axe Co

Blodgett Edge Tool Company

Emerson Edge Tool Company

Fellows, Jeremiah, Jr.

George, William F

Houston, James

Leighton, William

Manchester Axe Company

Mascoma Edge Tool Co

Neville, George D

New Hampshite Scythe Company

New London Scythe Company

Peasley, Asa Dearborn

Reynolds, George

Reynolds, Henry C. 

Shillaber, Joseph

Underhill and Brown

Underhill Edge Tool Company

Weare, Johnathan

Weeks, George

Witherell, James H.

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NEW JERSEY

Bird & Weld

Blanchard, J. Harvey

McKinnon, Alfred

McKinnon, Clara

McKinnon, Walter

McKinnon, Wesley

McKinnon, William

McKinnon, William (the younger)

McKinnon Rockaway Axe Manufacturing Company

Peer, John

Tauton Manufaturing Company

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NEW MEXICO

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NEW YORK

American Axe and Tool Co

Arnold and Perry

Arnold, Ephraim

Arnold, Samuel B.

Arnold and Waterbury

Barreba, Menta

Barclay, Richard H

Barnard, G

Barton, D.R.

Barry, Thomas B

Beardsley, BP

Becker, George

Blood, Isaiah

Blood, Helen

Blood, Sylvester

Bloomer, John L

Brigham, Charles S.

Brooks Tool Co

Brown and True

Brown HJ, and Co

Brown HF, Co

Buffalo Wholesale Hardware Co 

Carpeter, E. F. and Co

Chatillon

Cheney, Henry

Childs, CH, and Company

Clayville Manufacturing Company

Close, Cornelius

Cohoes Axe Mfg Co

Collins and Co

Collins , Ashael

Collins, H

Cotton, George

Darling, A.N. and Co

Elmira Axe Manufactory

Empire Edge Tool Works

Everson&Co

Farnham, Steven H

Foss, Charles

Francis Axe Company

Gale, De Forest

Germond, G B

Gifford Wood Co (Ice Axes)

Grace, Alfred

Graham, John H., and Co

Grant (WT) Company

Gregg, Mahlon

Grove Tool Works

Hagerman, Norman

Hall, Charles E., Co

Hamburg Axe Factory

Hammacher (A.) Hardware Co

Hammacher, Schlemer, Co.

Hansen & Yorke Co Inc

Herrick Hardware Company

Hessler (H E) and Co

Horton and Arnold

Horton, William

Hubbard, Babcock and Millard & Co

Hudson Tool Co

Hurd, Edwin

Johnsonville Axe Co

Jones, M H, and Co

Jeffords (CL) and Co.

Kress, S H,  and co

Knickerbacker, Henry

Landers, J F and T

Lane & Gale

Lane, George T

Laflin, Mathew

Little Falls Axe Factory

Lockport Edge Tool

Mack and Co

Mann, William

Masback Hardware Company (Hardware)

Mathews and Boucher

Maydole (David) Hammer Co

McNamara, James

Melichor, Armstrong, and Dessau

Mephisto Tool Co

Metropolitan Hardware Co

Millard (SA) and co

Morris, H D

Napanoch Axe Co

Napanoch Axe and Iron Co

Ogden (MC) Co

Olson, Edward

Osterout, William

Parker Tool Co

Parks, Austin

Parr (George) Co

Patterson Bro Hardware Co

Peasley, Asa Dearborn

Peck, AG and Co

Peck, AG & Sons

Peck and Mack Co

Perkins, Palmer C.

Perry, Theodore

Pierce Tool Works

Pillsbury,  Marcus Morton

Pratt & Co

Quackenbush, Townsend Co

Remington Arms Co

Rider, Alfred

Riverside Tool Co?

Rogers Axe Co

Rogers, Ethan

Rogers Peet Co

Rogers, S. and Co

Romer Bros

Romer Mfg Co

Russell Inc

Seymor, W.N., Hardware Co

Simmons, Daniel

Simmons, Jonas

Smith, Phineas

Snow, John

Squires, Austin

Staatsburg Ice Tool Works

Stearns, E.C., and Co

Stone, Demmon C.

Sweets Steel Company

Ten Eyck, Abram

Ten Eyck, Albert

Ten Eyck Axe Mfg Co

Ten Eyck and Laughlin

Ten Eyck, Jonas S.

Ten Eyck Edge Tool Company

Topping Brothrs Hardware Co

Trask (I&G) Axe and Edge Tool

Treman and Brothers

Treman, King Company

Ultramares Export Company

Underhill, Clinch, and Company

United Hardware and Tool Corp

United States Edge Tool Company

Van Siclen and Company

Wadsworth, David, and Son

Watts, Lewis H

Walters Axe Company

Warren, JM and Company

Washoe Tool Mfg Co

Waterbury, George

Weed, Henry

Weed and Becker

Weed and Co

Weiland, Charles, INC

White, Ichabod J

White, Leonard

White, L and IJ and Co.

White, Martha

White, Van Glahnm and Co

Willa, Cerelas

Witbeck, Clark, & Co

Wooster, C.A. and Co

Woth Hardware Co

Wright, Cami

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NORTH CAROLINA

Andrews, Ralph M

Burns, Silas

Council Tool

Cox, Fredrick J

Etheridge, William B.

Graham, James W.

Jacobi Hardware

McKay, John A

Tyson, Joseph

Wallace, Christopher

Warlick, Williamson

Watson, Walter

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NORTH DAKOTA

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OHIO

American Fork and Hoe Company

American Axe and Tool Co

Berylco

Breckenridge, Edward P

Breckenridge Tool Co

Breckenridge, Warren

Brigham, Byron Oakley

Chisholm, John P

Findlay Axe and Tool Company

Frank, H, and Co

Fulton

Hoyt, Henry F.

Hunter and Brigham

Hunter & Lakins

Hunter,Chester

Hunter Edge Tool Company

Hunter, Milo

Hunter, William A.

King, Oliver

Lakins, George Newell

McIntyre, Anson L

McIntyre & Hoyt

McIntyre and Moore

McIntyre, James E.

Mead and Co

Moore, C.H.

Moos, Peter

Norton Tool Company

Norton, W. T.

Powell, Albert

Powell Tool Co

Sandusky Tool Company

Thomas Manufacturing Company

Van Doren

Warren

White

Whiteway Stpg Company

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OKLAHOMA

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OREGON

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PENNSYLVANIA

American Axe and Tool Co

Baird, Samuel

BARCO

Barry, Thomas B

Beatty, WM, and Sons

Beatty, J. and W.

Biehl, Daniel

Black, John B. and Co

Bond, Frank

Bowman,Joel

Brady, William

Brooksville Axe and Tool Company

Carter, Pulaski

Clement, Dennis C

Colclesser, Adie

Colclesser Bros

Colclesser, Samuel

Dorin, Robert S

Dudley, John Ernst

Eddy, T H

Essington, CK

Fromberg, F

Fuller, John

Gloekler

Graff and Co

Graff, Joseph

Griffith

Gross, Jacob

Hagen, Al

Hagens, Davis

Hagen, Davis, Jr

Hagen, Elishia

Hagen, Joshua

Hagan, William

Hammond, C. and Sons

Harper's Fork Factory

Haverly

Hayes, James

Hendricks, Asa

Heverly, James

Hoffman, Valentine

Hollis, Joseph

Hubbard, C W

Hubbard, C W Jr

Hubbard & Co

Hubbard, Bakewell, and Co

Hubbard, Lippincott, and Bakewell

Joder, Jospeh

Lippincott, J

Lippincott & Co

Lippincott, Bakewell, and Co

Loveland and Eddy Axe Co

Loveland Axe Company

Loveland, Reuben

Mack Axe Co

Mann, Alfred

Mann, Charles J

Mann, Harris

Mann, Harvey, Jr.

Mann, Harvey

Mann, James H.

Mann, Joseph Fearon

Mann, Precy G.

Mann, Robert, Jr.

Mann, Robert

Mann, Stephen G.

Mann, Thomas R.

Mann, Walter

Mann, William Harris

Mann, William Hutchinson

Mann, William, Jr

Mann, Willis

Mann, William, III

Mann Edge Tool Company

Marris, S. W.

Marsh, Charles A

McLaughlin, M

Newmyer and Graff

Niedorfer, Adam

Plumb, Fayette R, Inc

Renfrette, Propsper

Sager, William J.

Sands, I. R.

Sarver, Ben

Schiffer, George

Sener, G

Silkman, Daniel

Skinner, Joseph

Smith, Henry

Sroumire, Joseph

Standard Axe and Tool Company

Stohler, John B

Stortz, John, and Son

Stuart and Sarver

Treaster, ML

Wallace, James

Warren Axe and Tool Company

Welsh, Titus

Wetherman, Albert

White, G

White, G, and Bro

White, James

White, Jerison

White, Joseph

Wolfgang, Jonas

Woodings Verona

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RHODE ISLAND

Nason, Leonard

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SOUTH CAROLINA

Hoyt, Lewis S.

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SOUTH DAKOTA

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TENNESSEE 

Howell, Patton

Mann, Stephen G.

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TEXAS

Krueger, Frank Robert Emil                                                  

Weiss, Henry

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UTAH

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VERMONT

Bartlett, Jeremy, and Co

Bartlett, Savid

Bartlett and Allen

Bardwell

Bernard, A.F.

Briggs Edge Tool Factory

Brooks and Brother

Brooks Edge Tool Factory

Brooks, Thomas MacDonough

Corbin, Leander

Mann, Hiram

Nutt

Rinfret, Jospeh R

Rixford, Luther

Rixford Mfg Co

Rixford, Oscar S. 

Ryder, Thomas M.

Smith

Taft, Daniel, & Sons

Underhill, Jay T

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VIRGINIA 

Allen, Ethan

Archer and Co

Virginia Axe Co

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WASHINGTON

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WEST VIRGINIA

American Axe and Tool Company

American Fork and Hoe Company

Fulton

Kelly Axe and Tool Company

Kelly Axe Manufacturing Company

Warwood Tools
 

WISCONSIN

Appleton Edge Tool Co

Proctor, Franklin

Shepardson, C.

Martin & Willot

Willott & Sons

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WYOMING

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