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History of W. P Tarbell of New Hampshire

Wendell Philips Tarbell was born in 1854.

In 1888, he patented a double screw mechanism used in hand screws, and later applied to bar clamps. In 1891 he was known as a clamp and screw manufacturer in Milford NH.

By 1895 Tarbell was employed in the Milford furniture factory of French and Heald, where Daniel Milton Heald made picture frames after 1907.

No additional history is known.

Sources

Milford Town History,
Instruments of Change, New Hampshire hand tools and their makers, 1800-1900
Published for the NH Historical Society by Phoenix Publishing, Canaan NH
This catalog of the exhibition held in the NH Historical Society 20 Dec 1984 - 30 May 1985 was researched and written by James L and Donna-Belle Garvin

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