This maker of machine tools, sewing machines, drill presses, and perhaps hand lathes, was established in 1865. Sometime between 1873 and 1883 they seem to have morphed into E. E. Garvin & Co.

Information Sources

• The April 14, 1866 issue of Scientific American carries an ad, "IMPORTANT TO MANUFACTURERS AND INVENTORS—SMITH & GARVIN, No 3 Hague street, New York, Machinists and Model Makers, are now ready to make proposals for building all kinds of light Machinery, Manufacturers' Tools. Models, etc. Satisfactory reference given." The same ad appeared from about March through to February of the following year.
• The 1870 edition of Boyd's business directory of over one hundred cities and villages in New York state lists "Smith & Garvin, machinists, 3 Hague".
• The December 1872 issue of Manufacturer & Builder noted that Smith & Garvin had won a gold medal at the American Institute Fair "for an excellent display of tools and machinery." The official list of gold medalists was published in the February 1873 issue: "Smith & Garvin, 3, 5, and 7 Hague street, Milling Machine and Drill Presses".
• The May 1873 issue of Manufacturer & Builder carried the following Special Notice. "We learn that Messrs Smith & Garvin, of 5 and 7 Hague street, New York, are about to move to their new and spacious manufactory at Bricksburg, New Jersey. This is situated on the New Jersey Southern Railroad, 44 miles from New York, and twenty miles from Sandy Hook. Messrs. Smith & Garvin are among the largest manufacturers of sewing machinery and tools in the country. They will be supplied with power by a 100 horse-power water-wheel, while a track from the New Jersey Southern Railroad runs directly through their works. We wish them in their new quarters all the success which they have heretofore enjoyed, and which their excellent workmanship so fully deserves."
• The 1873 work, Wiley's American Iron Trade Manual of the Leading Iron Industries of the United States, lists "SMITH & GARVIN.—5 Hague Street. General machinery, drills, chucks, etc."
• The 1919 Catalog of the Garvin Machine Company states that "the business being conducted by this Company was established in 1865." We can only assume that this means that it's predictor - Smith and Garvin