This maker was active in the 1880s. Reynolds T. White made a mortising and boring machine that was also able to do routing operations, including making rosettes.
Information Sources
- Mentioned in November 1882 Manufacturer & Builder in an article about the Boston Fair: "R. T. White, of Boston, exhibits his Universal Wood-Worker. It seems to be a good machine, and does many kinds of work."
- Ad from 1885 Carpentry and Building.
- An 1881 patent was granted to Reynolds T. White and assigned to one Mary A. Wildes of Cambridge, Mass. 1883 and 1886 patents were not explicitly assigned. All three patents relate to the same type of machine.
- Correspondent Richard Allan "Dickie" Kline reports a family-owned sawmill that had an R. T. White machine that was probably bought new. The machine was retired when the community was electrified in the 1950s. Put out to pasture in a shed, the machine was lost in a fire in 1967.