David Shortsleeve established this firm in 1877. He was granted a half-dozen or so patents, all of them related to stone sawing. But his firm reportedly also made iron-working and wood-working machinery. To date we have not found any ads or seen any surviving machines.

Information Sources

• Engineering Mechanics for April 7, 1883, had this note: "Messrs. David Shortsleeve & Co., machinists, of Rutland, Vt., are about to double the capacity of their works, and also increase the force of hands. This change has been found necessary owing to increasing business."
• From History of Rutland County Vermont, edited by Henry Perry Smith & William S. Rann, 1886:

  The senior member of this firm was the originator of the business, having leased a small shop, in which he was the sole workman, in 1877. He is a good mechanic, an inventor of some note, and energetic; hence he succeeded, and in the following year built his shop. Again in 1880 and 1881 he was compelled by increasing business to erect additions to his works. In 1883 O. L. ROBBINS and D. M. WHITE became his partners. In February, 1884, B. E. HORTON purchased Mr. WHITE's interest. Their general business is the manufacture of all kinds of quarrying, stone and slate-working machinery, and iron and wood-working machinery, granite turning and polishing machinery, and SHORTSLEEVE's patent gang stone-sawing machines. About $25,000 is invested and thirty hands employed.