Dear Listers, I have a late relative, Harry Ralph Hoover, who lived in Ithaca and told the 1930 census enumerator that he was employed as an inspector for a typewriter company. The nearest typewriter company I can find is Smith-Corona in Groton. Would that have been a reasonable commute for someone who lived on South Albany Street or was there another typewriter company in Ithaca? Did National Cash Register ever make typewriters? Your help will be most appreciated. Many thanks, Madeline Jenkins Millard Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA mlm403@juno.com Researching: FREY, HOOVER/HOVER, JENKINS, LITZ, POOLE, UDEY, WILLBRAND

Madeline, I believe Smith Corona in Groton would be the place Harry worked. They made typewriters until fairly recently. Groton is only a short way from Ithaca. My husband worked at NCR for 28 years, and never knew of them to make typewriters. The Ithaca NCR was the adding machine division. They later made printers, for scanners, ATM's, etc. In 1930, it was called Allen Wales, not National Cash Register. Judy At 07:58 AM 1/9/2008, you wrote: >Dear Listers, > >I have a late relative, Harry Ralph Hoover, who lived in Ithaca and told >the 1930 census enumerator that he was employed as an inspector for a >typewriter company. The nearest typewriter company I can find is >Smith-Corona in Groton. Would that have been a reasonable commute for >someone who lived on South Albany Street or was there another typewriter >company in Ithaca? Did National Cash Register ever make typewriters? Your >help will be most appreciated. > >Many thanks, > >Madeline Jenkins Millard >Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA >mlm403@juno.com > >Researching: FREY, HOOVER/HOVER, JENKINS, LITZ, POOLE, UDEY, WILLBRAND > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >NYTOMPKI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Madeline Millard wrote: >Dear Listers, > >I have a late relative, Harry Ralph Hoover, who lived in Ithaca and told the 1930 census enumerator that he was employed as an inspector for a typewriter company. The nearest typewriter company I can find is Smith-Corona in Groton. Would that have been a reasonable commute for someone who lived on South Albany Street or was there another typewriter company in Ithaca? Did National Cash Register ever make typewriters? Your help will be most appreciated. > >Many thanks, > >Madeline Jenkins Millard >Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA >mlm403@juno.com > >Researching: FREY, HOOVER/HOVER, JENKINS, LITZ, POOLE, UDEY, WILLBRAND > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYTOMPKI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > Madeline National Cash became IBM and they sold typewriters for many, many years. They were made in New York and were electrically driven and called Selectrics and other names. There were a lot of typewriter salesmen in almost all IBM offices of size. Bob

National Cash Register was sold to AT&T, not to IBM. IBM did sell typewriters; NCR never did, at least not any made in Ithaca, NY. NCR Ithaca made adding machines and then printers. >Madeline > National Cash became IBM and they sold typewriters for many, many > years. They were made in New York and were electrically driven and called > Selectrics and other names. There were a lot of typewriter salesmen in > almost all IBM offices of size. Bob >

There were actually many typewriter manufacturing operations in Tompkins county over the years. The History Center in Tompkins (Ithaca) has a great exhibit of many of them. Some of the exibit information is at the following website: Typing in Tompkins http://ergo.human.cornell.edu/ErgoPROJECTS/DEA4702005/HCTwebsite/index.html One likely company for Mr. Hoover would be Morse-Chain which had a subsidiary that manufactured the Barr portable typewriter. See http://www.geocities.com/wbd641/Barr1.html for some interesting history. -----Original Message----- From: Madeline Millard [mailto:mlm403@juno.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:59 AM To: TOMPKINS posting Subject: [NYTOMPKI] Typewriter company in Ithaca? Dear Listers, I have a late relative, Harry Ralph Hoover, who lived in Ithaca and told the 1930 census enumerator that he was employed as an inspector for a typewriter company. The nearest typewriter company I can find is Smith-Corona in Groton. Would that have been a reasonable commute for someone who lived on South Albany Street or was there another typewriter company in Ithaca? Did National Cash Register ever make typewriters? Your help will be most appreciated. Many thanks, Madeline Jenkins Millard Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA mlm403@juno.com Researching: FREY, HOOVER/HOVER, JENKINS, LITZ, POOLE, UDEY, WILLBRAND