Reb87...thanks again...I feel less confused...Homer and Tully are very near Lisle...It looks as though Hollenbeck, McFarland, and Baker were brought together partly by proximity to each other. The article by Sue Goodfellow certainly suggests that Baker had an outright gun manufacturing facility in Lisle. I've never seen a Baker marked Lisle, perhaps someone else has. If Sue Goodfellow's article is correct, in that Hollenbeck was employed by Baker and Researchers observation of Lisle marked Hollenbeck hammerguns is correct, then why would Baker let a young employee affix his name to the end product? Some big pieces are missing here...This we know for sure, by January of '82 Hollenbeck was in Syracuse, says patent 258923, while Baker had re-established himself on Fall Creek by '93 according to Swinney. I think it's safe to say that Baker and Hollenbeck had parted by at least 1891.
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the following is an excerpt from a 1924 article about the history of Lisle...the author is unknown..I've posted it because it cites reference to a forge as early as 1835.
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Lisle in 1835 had considerable distinction as a manufacturing town, at that time having in operation three grist mills, twenty saw mills, one oil cloth mill, three fulling mills, three carding mills, one trip hammer or forging mill, three tanneries and two places where potash was made. In 1867 the people of Lisle held an election to determine whether the village should be incorporated or not, the vote being 55 for and 8 against the proposition. At that time the township assumed the name of Lisle, which it has since retained. A re-incorporation took place in 1876, and we find that Lisle then had about 400 inhabitants.
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...My Gun Report collection is no where near complete enough to organize them by year...Gun Report @309-582-5311 said they do have those back issues but it'll take a week for me to get them AND that is perfectly acceptable to them if their articles are posted online for academic debate as long as credit is given if anyone ever re-publishes their information. If no one has the articles, I will eventually post them here for all to read and debate the accuracy. I'm more interested in those early pre-Ithaca guns and factories than Hollenbeck or Baker themselves. The geneology stuff just doesn't interest me, but I'll post the articles as soon as I get them.
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Rabbit...I was thinking Gorton and Latta's patent drillings which do crop up from time to time...patent 417241...but it was Emmit Latta that patented the bike I mentioned...patent 377204... Several of his patents are assigned to Pope Manufacturing...
