Abendroth Bros. Salesmen sample wood burning stove

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This is a salesmen sample of a woodburning stove. Made by Abendroth Bros. of N.Y. 10" high 10"wide 12.5" Deep The Abendroth Bros. Foundry, at one time one of the largest foundries in the east, operated from 1840 to 1920. The works occupied 200,000 square feet along the Byram River on Abendroth Avenue.The brothers were Augustus (b. c1822 Germany) and John (b. c1827 US); William Abendroth (b. c1790 Germany) and Margaret ((b. c1800 US) also lived there, and I presume they were the parents.The stove fasteners were innovative, and made locally under several corporate reincarnations by the trio of Russell, Birdsall & Ward. Though their huge bolt and nut works relocated in 1973, RB&W is still in business: see /history.htm . The Ward family success built a political career for William L. Ward, a second-generation machine designer, and he left his own engineering marvel in town: Ward's Castle, the first reinforced concrete house in the US. See /castles/wards.htm . Place names: the hamlet was Sawpit until 1868, incorporating as the village of Port Chester within the Town of Rye in 1868. The bolt works was originally across the river in the hamlet of Pemberwick, CT (aka East Port Chester, and now Byram) in the Town of Greenwich.Both plants provided work for large numbers of emigrant families, and some of the early workers' houses still read more

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