H. S. B. & Co.

SEWING MACHINES

This leading hardware dealership was the descendant of a Chicago store called Tuttle, Hibbard & Co., which took that name in 1855 when William G. Hibbard became a partner.

In 1865, Hibbard was joined by Franklin F. Spencer and the enterprise was renamed Hibbard & Spencer.

In 1882 longtime company employee Adolphus Clay Bartlett became a partner and the company's name became Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett & Co.

Bartlett was born in Stratford, New York in 1844 to parents Aaron and Delia Dibeli Bartlett. When he was ten years old his father died and his mother relocated to Salisbury Center, N. Y. where he attended school until he was sixteen years old. 

Among their employees was a 21 year-old janitorial staffer named A.C. Bartlett, another ambitious kid from western New York. His first duties were to dust the shelves where tinware was kept, a properly humble start for a man who was going to become successively sales manager, secretary, director, vice-president, president and finally, in 1914, the first to occupy the newly-created office of chairman of the board of directors, the position he held at the time of his death.

"..during the Chicago fires of 1871, Bartlett was only 27 years old..."

Adolphus Clay Bartlett the last surviving original member of Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Company died on Thursday, June 1, 1922

BARTLETT AND CONOVER SEWING MACHINES

1899

NATIONAL SEWING MACHINE COMPANY ???

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1900

The REV-O-NOC Trademark was not used until sometime after 1900 when a man named Conover (REVONOC spelled backwards) became an officer in the company.

1901

1915

According to the Encyclopedia of Early American Sewing Machines, the "Bartlett Rotary" was manufactured by the National Sewing Machine Company.