Albert Winson Rix succeeded Martin Buck in 1883. Rix's shop was destroyed in the great Lebanon fire of 1887; it is not known if Rix resumed business afterwards. Rix died in 1898 at 66 years of age.

Information Sources

• Gazetteer of Grafton County, N, Volumes 1709-1886, 1886, by Hamilton Child, has the following paragraph.

  The Buck manufacturing concern, A. W. Rix, proprietor, is located on Mill street, in Lebanon village. An extensive business in the manufactory of patent wood-working machinery, including single, double and triple turning machines, and also a large size suitable for car work, blind-stile mortising and boring machines, horizontal and vertical boring machines, Buck's adjustable groover head, single and double, suitable for light and heavy work; also for car work, blind-slat crimping machines, patent pin and wedge machines, the Wellington's patent ensilage and also Wellington's patent root cutter. Mr. Rix also does a general business as a practical machinist and deals in all kinds of wood working machinery. This business was established about 1870 by Martin Buck, and was run by him till April, 1883, when it was purchased by Mr. Rix.

  The listing for Rix reads as follows.

  RIX ALBERT W., manuf. of patent blind stile mortising and boring machines, blind slat crimping machines, car tenoning machines, single, double and triple, tenoning machines, horizontal and perpendicular, boring machines, Buck's adjustable groover head, double and triple, suitable for light and heavy work, and car work, patent wedge and pin machines, Wellington's patent ensilage cutter, and general jobber and dealer in all kinds of wood working machinery, Mill, h Hanover.

• History of Lebanon, N.H., 1761-1887, by Charles. A. Downs, 1908, gives a list of businesses suffering losses in the great 1887 fire in Lebanon. A. W. Rix lost $5,000.
• History and Genealogy of the Rix Family of America, 1906, by Guy S. Rix, has this biography.

  604. Albert Winson Rix (Heman, Garner, Daniel, Thomas, James, Thomas), born in Royalton, Vt., Aug. 29, 1831; died in Lebanon, N. H., Mar. 7, 1892; married, May 10, 1863, Lizzie A. Ayres, born in 1832; died in Lebanon, N. H, Oct. 9, 1898, aged 66 years, 6 months and 20 days. Mr. Rix was a fine machinist; worked in the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H., and afterwards carried on a shop of his own in Lebanon, N. H.