This maker of planers, sawmill machinery, and steam engines began in the early 1850s. It appears that he operated for a time as Whittelsey, Perkins & Co., but within a few years Whittelsey and Perkins had split, with Whittelsey operating under his own name and as Malone Foundry & Machine Works (Perkins continued on as Perkins Bros.)

Whittelsey's machine designer was Alexander Solomon Walbridge. A. S. Walbridge was originally from Mystic, Quebec. By 1856 he had moved just across the border to Burlington, Vermont, and by 1861 he had moved to Malone. He may have only stayed there briefly, but he designed a circular sawmill, a steam-engine cutoff device, and a planer-matcher while in Malone. By 1879 he was back in Mystic. He is best remembered in that area for building, in 1882, a twelve-sided barn that is now a Quebec National Landmark.

Information Sources

• Mr. Whittelsey's surname is ripe for misspelling. We have seen his name rendered C. C. Whittlesey, C. C. Whittelsy, and C. C. Whittlesy. The spelling used here is taken from the one ad we have found, as that seems the most reliable source we have.
• Thanks to Danielle Pigeon for pointing us to the Scientific American articles on C. C. Whittelsey and A. S. Walbridge.
• Substantial illustrated articles in the following issues of Scientific American: 1862-03-15; 1862-04-05; 1862-05-17; and 1862-11-19. The articles cover, respectively, a steam-engine cutoff; engine lathe; sawmill; and planer-matcher.
• An 1868 Malone Business Directory, available online at RootsWeb, lists Whittelsey, Perkins & Co. of 40 and 42 Catharine, Malone, NY, as an agricultural implement maker, a foundry and machine shop, and a maker of stoves, tin, and sheet iron ware. Confusingly, there is a listing for a C. C. Whittelsey of 93 Main as a woolen manufacturer. It is most likely that Mr. Whittelsey was behind both ventures.
• The 1872-1874 issue of Boyd's New York State Directory lists the following under Malone: "Whittlesey, C. C., woolen mills, foundry and machine shops; also clothing, stoves, &c. Main [street]."
• Malone Foundry & Machine Works is listed in the 1874 work, Wiley's American iron trade manual of the leading iron industries of the United States: "C. C. Whittelsey, proprietor. Mowers, saw-mill machinery, machine tools, etc." There is a separate listing for a Perkins Bros., an iron foundry and makers of machinery of unspecified type.
• American Steam Engine Builders: 1800-1900 by Kenneth L. Cope, 2006 page 269