Excerpt from A History of Buffalo, Delineating the Evolution of the City, Vol. 2: With Sketches of Rochester and the City of Utica The manufacture of edged tools was introduced in Buf falo as early as 1837, by L. And I. J. White, under whose name it has been carried on continuously to the present time. The business has grown to large dimensions, Operating an extensive plant on Perry and Columbia streets, and selling its product in all parts of the world. For some years past incorporated, as the L. I. J. White Company, of which John G. H. Marvin is president, M. White vice-president, and J. W. White general superintendent. Next in date of origin, among the manufactories that have had importance in the industrial history Of the city and a continuous career, is that which bears now the name of the Buffalo Pitts Company. Its founders were John A. And Hiram Pitts, twin brothers, Of Winthrop, Maine, who were the first American inventors of threshing machinery, and who patented, in 1837, the first successful threshing and separating machine combined. Prior to this they had made improvements on the old style of thresher, which turned out grain, chaff and straw together, to be separated by another Operation. In combining the thresher and the farming mill, producing the endless apron or grain belt separator, they opened a new era in that line of invention, and the principles covered by their original patents have been fol lowed in all improvements since. In 1840 John A. Pitts came to Buffalo and established the manufacture of the new threshing machine here, at the corner of Fourth and Caro lina streets, from which place the shops have never been changed, though enlarged till they contain many acres of floor space. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.