1. Although the article in Hardware Dealers Magazine conveniently ignores the fact that Millers Falls was not actually producing its blades, I have placed enough trust in it to use the information about the Stubs saw and the publicity stunt. I used the DAT for information on the founding of Clemson Brothers and Roger K. Smith for mention of the soles sales agent relationship. (At some point during the firms' long relationship, however, Clemson Brothers instituted direct sales as well.)
Dictionary of American Tools. Early
American Industries Association, 1999. p. 172.
"The Millers Falls Co." Hardware Dealers Magazine,
January 1915, v. 43, no. 253, p. 112-113.
Smith, Roger K. Patented Transitional &
Metallic Planes in America, Vol. II. [S.l.] : Roger K. Smith, 1992.
p. 265.
2. A digression: Into each life a little rain must fall, and, certainly, some fell into Albert's in 1885 when his wife became a charter member of the Millers Falls Temperance Union. Care, Pearl B., Burnett, Anastacia, and Felton, Doris A. The History of Erving, Massachusetts, 1838-1998. Erving, Mass. : Erving Historical Society, 1988. p. 168.
3. On the Companion lathe: "The Millers Falls Co." Hardware Dealers Magazine, January 1915, see p. 113.
4. Information on the
baseball teams is from Care. The dates of Levi Gunn's local civic contributions
are courtesy Thompson. His service at the state level is courtesy Kellogg.
Care, Pearl B., Burnett, Anastacia, and Felton, Doris A.
The History of Erving, Massachusetts, 1838-1998. Erving, Mass. :
Erving Historical Society, 1988. p. 199.
Thompson, Francis M. History of Greenfield:
Shire Town of Franklin County, Massachusetts. Greenfield, Mass :
s.n., 1904. v. 2, p. 776-777.
Kellogg, Lucy Cutler. History of Greenfield,
1900-1929. Greenfield, Mass. : Town of Greenfield, 1931. p. 1602.
5. With regard to to
the flood, I have my faith in Adie, who put the flood in the early 1880s,
rather than Care, who placed it in the latter 1870s.
Adie, Allan D. "75 years of honest endeavor."
Dyno-mite, December 1943, see p. 19.
Care, Pearl B., Burnett, Anastacia, and Felton, Doris A.
The History of Erving, Massachusetts, 1838-1998. Erving, Mass. :
Erving Historical Society, 1988. p. 22.