| Family Trees: | New World - Part 74 , New World - Part 75 | |
| Son of: | Levi Bostwick (1756) and Anna (1755) | GBFA |
| Born: | in 1779 in Danbury, Conn | GBFA |
| Died: | 13/3/1864 in Schenevus, NY | GBFA |
| Married: | Clarissa (1785) | GBFA |
| Children: | Deborah (1801) , David Benedict (1802) , Hannah (1804) , Philor (1805) , Hiram (1806) , Orrin (1808) , Elmer (1810) , Sylvester (1812) , Rebecca (1815) , Adelia (1817) | GBFA |
| A book "History of Schenevus, NY" records his activity and achievements. As a young man he left Danbury, and settled on the South side of Schenevus Creek, where he built his house and shop. "Probably this country has never produced a man of more mechanical skill and inventive genius." He built a grist mill in 1811, opened a wheelright and paint shop, a shop for "wooding" cast iron ploughs. He made and put into use a wool carding machine, and built machinery for fulling and dressing cloth. He invented and patented the first threshing machine, a machine for fluting and corrugating boards for wash boards, a machine for turning spokes for carriage wheels, others for making shoe pegs and turning shoe lasts. "Many other improvements that have benefitted mankind were due to his fertile brain, but, like thousands of others, he received but little pecuniary reward for his labors. In his old age his beloved shop, machinery and tools were swept away by floods, a great damage and loss to the surrounding community." |
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