MIDDLETOWN CONNECTICUT

Isaac J. Hough

Tool Makers of
Middletown, Connecticut

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Tools Made: Tinsmith tools, pitch forks.

Isaac J. Hough & Company.

Co-partner Sherman Roberts. Dissolved 1856. Constitution, 20 Aug. 1856, page 3.

      Born in Connecticut in1815 and died in 29 Sep. 1864. Buried in the Wilcox cemetery, Middletown, CT. Listed in the 1850 U.S. Census as a tool maker and as a Manufacturer in the 1860 census.

 

Patent number 33227, 26 Nov. 1861, for Tin-Snip Shears, issued to Henry. S. Pratt of Hartford and assigned to I.J. Hough of Middletown

 

Working Dates: 1842-64.

32 inch bench shears.

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Mark I.I. HOUGH

MIDDLETOWN, C

CAST STEEL

From 1851 Map.

 

 

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