Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of the Trade-Mark "Yale" Issued January, 1914
HE little hamlet of Newport, in Her kimer County, New York, about 12 miles northeast of Utica, was the place where the name Yale was first used in connection with locks and hardware, in which connection it is now a house hold word throughout the civilized world. How that trade-mark acquired its present significance, and became the synonym for The Yale Towne Manufacturing Company, will appear from what follows.
Linus Yale, senior (fig. I), born in Middletown, Conn., in 1797, but reared in Herkimer County, N. Y., had a natural talent, for mechanics which first bore fruit in improvements in various milling devices, but which led him later into designing and making bank locks, which, in those days, were always operated by keys, and usually were of more or less intricate construction.
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