In 1870 John B. Schenck died, and Henry B. Schenck acquired the woodworking machinery maker John B. Schenck & Sons, and continued in the same business as H. B. Schenck. In 1883 he had about twenty employees.

Information Sources

• The Hagley Museum library's catalog lists a catalog from this maker: "The Schenck Machine Works : heavy new pattern "Hercules" planing and matching machines". The listing says the catalog is "ca. 1900" which is probably much too recent.
• 1882 book, History of Duchess County, New York, page 527.

  Samuel B. Schenck occupied the machine works, blacksmith shop and foundry of the Matteawan Co., in the manufacture of the Woodworth planer, removing from Mansfield, Mass., in 1851, the works established by him in that State in 1832. He continued the business until his death, March 25, 1861, when his brothers John B. and T. J. B. Schenck acquired it and continued it until 1870, from 1865 as an incorporated company, but without additional partners. John B. Schenck died Aug. 6, 1870, when H. B. Schenck purchased the establishment and has since conducted the business but occupies only a part of the original works, the establishment having been removed from the machine works to the foundry of the Matteawan Co., in 1864, and from thence to their present location in February, 1878. Mr. Schenck employs about twenty persons in the manufacture of wood-working machinery of various kinds.

• July 1889 Railway Purchasing Agent page 109, has an article on H. B. Schenck's "New Pattern 'Hercules' Planer".