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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 09-24-2006 08:08 PM
  
I would appreciate any information on this Troy NY partnership and the principles involved. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 01-25-2008 08:41 PM
Lewis C Champney apprenticed himself to his brother Samuel in Grafton, NY as a watchmaker and jeweller. Can't help but think he's likely to be the Champney half of the partnership in question here. On the other hand his brother could have been the one too. Still looking for this one and others. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 01-25-2008 09:05 PM
That would be Grafton MA, not NY -- his brother Samuel settled there and married Susan Adams of Leicester in 1834. Lewis went on to Troy NY, but I still have not figured out the Rogers. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 01-25-2008 09:31 PM
In Lewis's autobiographical notes for his family's history written in the 1860's he only mentions Grafton which in New York is East of Troy. Fortunately wev, you knew better in this case. Lewis also tried his hand at being a Daguerrotypist, but returned to his former profession of watchmaker and jeweler which in the end brought him complete satisfaction. If Lewis is half of the partnership in question, it was not a significant one to him because he does mention others that he was in partnership with but not a Rogers. [This message has been edited by bascall (edited 01-25-2008).] IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 01-28-2008 11:01 PM
Here's a point worth noting about Lewis. He says in his own words that in 1859 he became interested in a patent clock and took up his residence in Boston. Basically, the civil war got in the way of that pursuit. He lost "many" years earnings, and in 1862 he returned to his former business in Troy, NY. Lewis's occupation in the 1860 U. S. Federal Census is clockmaking. IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 01-29-2008 11:09 AM
Interesting information. He must have stayed under cover, as he is not listed in any of the city directories 1855-1865. Perhaps he was living with his 1st cousins, Edward and George, who were well-to-do fancy goods merchants there. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 01-29-2008 12:13 PM
At the time of the census, it's just he and his family. Could this be the period when he was involved with Rogers? IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 01-29-2008 12:27 PM
No, this was the time he was partnered with Amory Felton, a clockmaker and inventor (he was issued a patent for a grinding mill in 1855). Lewis seems to have a hand in various outside enterprises -- he co-sponsored Gregory Quezada's patent application for a gear-driven room ventilator in 1876. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 01-29-2008 04:04 PM
Wev and anyone else that is interested, google this if you haven't already: History of the Champney Family Containing Biographical Sketches. You can look at the information that I'm stumbling through first hand. (The url looks a little "ungainly.") Lewis comes across as a man of admirable chararcter. He's seems so honest and straightforward. His writing for me personally is a pleasure to read. He would have been an interesting man to have known. I'm guessing his periods in various locations may have overlapped, and he may not have given up one over the another entirely in each case. He appears to have been involved in development and marketing the patent clock and never really entirely in business where it was concerned? IP: Logged |
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wev Moderator Posts: 4121 |
posted 01-29-2008 10:19 PM
It is a warm and fuzzy memoir -- long on sentiment, short on fact. IP: Logged |
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bascall Posts: 1629 |
posted 05-16-2008 04:51 AM
Thomas M Lamb learned the jeweller's trade with S P Champney. IP: Logged |
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