Smith breech-loading shotgun, which became a very popular firearm and made the company a great business success. One of Smith’s employees, the brilliant and entrepreneurial Alexander T. Smith, Maker of the Baker Gun, Syracuse, NY. Lymon stayed in Syracuse and continued making the Baker shotgun with his brother Wilbert, under the name, L.C. Three years later, Baker and Leroy Smith left the company and went to Ithaca to establish the Ithaca Gun Co.
Lymon Smith, who moved to Syracuse from Lisle (Broome County), NY, founded a shotgun factory with his brother Leroy and a talented gun designer, William Baker, in 1877, known as W.H. But the Smith brothers’ rise to become one of the largest typewriter companies in the world started in a rather unconventional manner. Four Smith brothers – Lymon C., Wilbert L., Monroe C., and Hurlburt W. Smith & Brothers Typewriter Company:Īt the turn of the 20 th century, along with being known as the Salt City, Syracuse was also known as the Typewriter City, because typewriter factories were a common sight throughout the city.
Now, the location is the site of the Center of Excellence building. The company stayed on this site until 1962 when it was replaced with an office building called Midtown Plaza that housed Onondaga Community College for a decade. Woodruff had previously served as Lieutenant Governor of New York State under three different governors (the only person in NYS history to do so), including Theodore Roosevelt. Woodruff was selected as president of the company. Smith & Brothers Typewriter Company bought a Washington and Almond Street site for their factory.
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