In 1840 his father started him, with his brother Henry, in the foundry business. F. J. L. Blandy was active in the 1880s, and is probably related in some way to H. & F. Blandy. In 1863, requiring greater facilities for their increasing trade, they purchased the Newark Machine Works.
Information Sources
- 1884 advertising circular entitled, "Blandy's Monthly Journal."
- Listed in C. H. Wendel's The Circular Sawmill. Wendel reproduces an illustration from an 1882 issue of "American Machinist" that shows this maker's "Improved Double Circular Mill" with patented feedworks.
- Ohio, the Future Great State: Her Manufacturers, and a History of Her Commercial Cities, 1875, pages 152-153