#1# ABEL PORTER & CO., 1802 AARON BENEDICT, 1812 Begins making brass buttons Bone and ivory buttons. *2* Started making brass ones 1823 *3* #2# LEAVENWORTH, HAYDEN & SCOVILL, #3 5# 1811 BENEDICT & COE, 1829 Fred’k Leavenworth, David Hayden, Aaron Benedict, Israel Coe, J. M. L. Scovill, James Croft, Jas. Croft Israel Holmes. *6 7* *4 5* #4# #10# J. M. L. & W. H. HOLMES & HOTCHKISS, SCOVILL, 1827 1830 Israel Holmes, Israel Holmes, H. W. Hayden Horace Hotchkiss, *8 9 10* Philo Brown *11 12* #6# #7 12# Howe Mfg. Co., BENEDICT & BURNHAM, WOLCOTTVILLE BRASS CO., Darby; Slocum & 1834 1834 Jillson, A. & Chas. Benedict, Israel Coe, Israel Poughkeepsie, G. W. Burnham, A. S. Holmes, Anson G. Phelps, N. Y., and Fowler Chase, F. A. Mason, John Hungerford, Geo. P. Bros., Northford, Geo. Somers Cowles, John Davol-- Ct., developed *14 15 16 17 18 19 20* Torrington, Conn. successful pin *21 22 23* machinery *13* #11 13# #20# #23# BROWN & ELTON, WATERBURY BUTTON CO., SMITH & PHELPS, 1836 1838 1849 Anson G. Phelps, Geo. P. Philo Brown, J. Cowles, Thos. Wallace, P. Elton--Sold Thos. James.First at to Brown & Bros. Derby--Co. founded at and Holmes, Ansonia in 1844 Booth & Haydens *29 30 31* *24 25 26 27* #14 27# #22# AMERICAN PIN CO., 1846 Davol organised Brooklyn Brass & Copper Co. in 1853 *28* #9 21 26# #29# #31# WATERBURY BRASS WALLACE & SON, 1848 HUMPHREYSVILLE COPPER CO., 1845 Thos. Wallace--Co. CO., 1849 Israel Holmes, J. failed in 1895--Plant Thos. James, Seymour, Ct. P. Elton, H. W. sold to Coe Br. Co. in *35* Hayden, Lyman W. 1896 Coe, son of Israel Coe *32 33 34* #8# #19# #35# SCOVILL MFG. CO., WATERBURY CLOCK CO., NEW HAVEN COPPER CO., 1850 1857 1855 The Scovill Brothers, F. J. Kingsbery, Sr.