Kirk has a gift for these sorts of things.

Michael

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 2:25 PM Paul Olson  wrote:

> Thanks Kirk. I guess I need to go deeper than one page of search results- I
> saw none of what you found. That's one thing I love about this mailing list
> group- someone always knows!
>
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 2:27 PM Kirk Eppler  wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 12:08 PM Paul Olson 
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I recently picked up this chisel ..... maker "W. A. Bashaw" before and
> >> I'm not able to find anything but a few old eBay
> >> .....
> >> Does anyone have any info on this maker?
> >>
> >>
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/8d212mbegdhuxfs/AAA0BYKsxnShVSCW8Hxb3wfRa?dl=0
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Looks like William A Bashaw was active in Chisel making in 1908, per the
> > New England Business Directory and Gazetteer (Issue 23) in
> Wilkinsonville,
> > Sutton County, Massachusetts (now 01590 zip code), One town over from
> > Millbury, MA of Buck Bros fame.  There is now a short stretch of road
> known
> > as Bashaw road in Sutton, the county where Wilkinsonville is located.
> >
> > Looks like a WA Bashaw was manager of the Sutton Water Works in 1915.
> > Supposedly he helped form it per the History of...  Says where he bought
> a
> > house on what is now Bashaw road, formerly a blacksmith shop.  Later on
> it
> > talks about " THE SUTTON TOOL CO.
> >
> > William A. Bashaw erected a shop for the manufacture of edge tools on
> land
> > which he had bought from his father, Eustace Bashaw, and carried on this
> busi-
> > ness for some time. Later, he changed to the manufacture of shuttle
> irons, and
> > built up a very prosperous business under the name of The Sutton Tool
> Co. His
> > shop was destroyed by fire, in 1925, but he rebuilt on a larger scale,
> and at the
> > time of his death, June 6, 1931, he had installed machinery for the
> manufacture
> > of the complete shuttle.
> >
> > After Mr. Bashaw's death...."
> >
> > Also says "THE SUTTON WATER CO.
> >
> > William A. Bashaw, in search of water to furnish steam for his engine,
> lo-
> > cated an underground supply, north of and adjacent to his shop. He did
> this by
> > means of the divining rod, in the use of which he was expert. Water was
> found
> > in such abundance that a water-supply system was inaugurated by Mr.
> Bashaw
> > and John C. Dudley, in 1914, under the name of Sutton Water Co."
> >
> >
> >
> https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs2187sutt/historyoftownofs2
187sutt_djvu.txt">https://archive.org/stream/historyoftownofs2187sutt/historyoft
ownofs2187sutt_djvu.txt
> >
> >
> > In 1921 (filed), he was (1926) granted a patent for a shuttle spring (if
> > you want to see how he signed his name)
> >
> > https://patents.google.com/patent/US1466418
> >
> > Probably more out there, but work is calling, so I gotta go.
> > --
> > Kirk Eppler in Half Moon Bay, CA, might get some shop time this weekend.
> >
> >
>
> --
> Paul
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Michael