New york knife company history

This would be Ontario Knife's current location. The early knives were manufactured on a waterpower-run grindstone and sold via pushcart through the neighboring countryside.Īs the company began to grow more space and more power was needed so an old sawmill at Cadiz located near the Village of Franklinville was purchased and also run by water–power from the Ischua Creek.Īround 1902 a move was made from Cadiz to Franklinville as the company kept growing and again more space and more power was needed.

The name of the Company derived from Ontario County where Naples was situated. Ensworth, Charles Albert Brace and William Maudsley, were in the picture from the start at Naples, New York, in 1889. It seems certain that three men – William B. The beginnings of the Ontario Knife Company are shrouded in the mystery of a fading past.