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John T. Noye Mfg. Co. was founded in 1850 by John T. Noye to manufacture flour mill machinery. His son Richard K. Noye took control after his father’s death in 1881 and reorganized as the Noye Mfg. Co. Noye bought from F. B. Rice, the rights to and manufactured The Rice Automatic Steam Engine in 1886.

Information Sources

• 1849 The Commercial Advertiser Directory for the City of Buffalo lists "Hayward & Noye, mill stone manufactory, 87 Main, office Merchant's Exchange". An ad (p. 208) reads, "Hayward & Noye, (successors of Hayward & Co.) / Manufacturers of French Burr Mill Stone, and Dealers in German Anker Bolting Cloths, Screen Wire, Mills Screws, Water Lime, Plaster, &c. &c. / 87 Main, Corner Scott Street." Also listed are "Noye, John T. firm Hayward & Noye, h. Niagara near Carolina / Noyte, William F. clerk Hayward & Noye". There are only three Haywards listed: Calvin Hayward was a builder, S. Hayward was a joiner, and Mrs. Fanny Hayward was the widow of Elisha.
• 1852 The Commercial Advertiser Directory for the City of Buffalo lists "Noye, John T. mill manufacturer, and furnisher, 20 Main, h. Franklin above Virginia". An ad (p. 90) reads as follows.

  John T. Noye, successor to Hayward & Noye, Manufacturer of French Burr Millstones and dealer in Genuine Dutch Anker Bolting Cloths, Portable Grist Mills, Screen Wires, Mill Screws, Damsels, Spindles, Castings, Cast Iron Proof Staffs, Grimes' Pagin's and Leonard Smith's Smut Mills, Stucco & Land Plaster, Water Lime &c / Manufactory, 87 Main St. Office, 20 Main St. / The subscriber is now prepared to furnish, at the Old Buffalo Mill Furnishing Establishment, No. 20 Main Street, at the shortest notice, his Centrifugal Feeding, Patent Portable Flouring and Grist Mills, from twenty-four to thirty-six inches in diameter...

• American Steam Engine Builders: 1800-1900 by Kenneth L. Cope, 2006 page 173