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From: "Sue Maxwell" <>
Subject: Re: [NY-HudsonRV) Peekskill
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:31:37 -0700
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well- I just wonder if patents had to be registered in a certain place and
NYC sounds like a likely place in the early days- Sue
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Miller" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [NY-HudsonRV) Peekskill


> Thanks sue
>>From your description, I would love to visit there -- with a Laundry List
>>of
> other things to poke into.......
> The Brooklyn [NYC] patents are all attributable to the Mathews Bottling
> Company, so I would not be able to tell if John Ormerod or another person
> were the inventor.
>
> But it raises the question, would the patent awarded for the Peekskill
> inventions/firm have been recorded in New York City just as a routine
> repository for such things......
> Makes finding that out another obstacle, doesn't it...
> "No stone unturned..."
> Jan Miller
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sue Maxwell" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 7:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [NY-HudsonRV) Peekskill
>
>
>> if he would have to get the patent in NYC it would be in the Old Records
>> Dept, probably- the place is the most interesting place to research- the
>> entire 7th floor of the building is filled with shelves of old
>> manuscripts,
>> and this tall skinny man named Bruce helps you- he is a genius. You have
>> to
>> look in one of the file books first, and get the number and he finds it
>> and
>> if you're lucky it doesn't fall apart.! That building is called the
>> County
>> Clerks Office, Div. Old Records, on Chambers St, and make sure you dont
>> take
>> a lunch fork in there- they get very nervous! Sue Maxwell
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jan Miller" <>
>> To: "LISTSERVER, Westchester" <>;
>> "NY-HudsonRiverValley LISTSERVER" <>
>> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 8:07 AM
>> Subject: [NY-HudsonRV) Peekskill
>>
>>
>>> My Great Grandfather, John Ormerod, is the patentee of Patent
>>> #122642--for
>>> an "Improvement in Brick-Machines".
>>> I have a copy of the written description and a drawing of same,
>>> including
>>> his signature and those of his 2 witnesses--C. E. Swift and Fred.
>>> Seymour.
>>> (There were other patents issued in his name, but I haven't been able to
>>> return to the film source--near Stanford U.campus).
>>>
>>> I'd like to know where I can find more information about this
>>> manufacturing company--first of all, it's name; then, how long it was in
>>> existence--background on this Peekskill company --its years of
>>> operation,
>>> any employee records and items of interest that would enhance John
>>> Ormerod's chapter in my family history. The Ormerod family lived in
>>> Peekskill from about 1867 to 1877 when he and family moved to GreenPoint
>>> Brooklyn, where he was employed by the J. Matthews Soda Bottling
>>> Company,
>>> "suppliers of bottling industry equipment". He eventually became Vice
>>> President of the company. There are several pages of inventions
>>> credited
>>> to the Matthews Company during this period of time -- of which probably
>>> many could be attributable to him, but submitted in the name of the
>>> company. On censuses he called himself 'machinist-inventor'. Because
>>> the
>>> early 2-3 patents were submitted and attributed to him, I appreciate
>>> those
>>> most.
>>>
>>> The family lived in Peekskill long enough to bury two infant sons in
>>> Hillside Cemetery. When John and his wife died in 1912 and 1915, they
>>> were buried there too, as well as 4 of his widowed daughters in later
>>> years.
>>>
>>> I would appreciate any referrals you can make--and thank you.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jan Miller
>>>
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