In 1854, J. Barrett & Co., a partnership consisting of Joseph. Barrett, Josiah Coburn, Caleb Cutting, and Amos B. Coburn, was manufacturing Stearns' patent wood planing machine. It appears that the business was acquired by the newly formed Richardson, Meriam & Co. in 1862.
Information Sources
- The 1844 edition of Howland's Worcester Directory has no listings for anyone named Barrett or Amos Coburn. It lists Caleb Cutting and Josiah Coburn (separately) as machinists.
- Ad in the 1854 edition of Howland's Worcester Directory.
- Listings in the 1855 edition of Howland's Worcester Directory,for Joseph Barrett, Amos B. Coburn, Josiah Coburn (machinist), and Caleb Cutting, all working for J. Barrett & Co.
- The "Information Sources" section of our McIver Brothers & Co. entry has a history of RIchardson, Meriam & Co. that says that that firm bought out "G. Barrett & Co." [sic] in 1862.
- A genealogy webpage reports that Amos B. Coburn, age 33, was married in 1844 to one Sarah Whitmore, in Lowell, Massachusetts.