Wilson Bohannan
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The Wilson Bohannan Lock Company (Marion, Ohio) has been manufacturing padlocks for almost 160 years. This makes them America's oldest continuous padlock maker. The founder Wilson Bohannan received his first padlock patent (No. 27,883) on April 17, 1860. In that patent his first name is spelled 'Wilsin', while in subsequent patents (Nos. 46,539, 55,047, 55,048, 67,401) his first name is spelled 'Wilson'. In the same year that his first patent was issued, he opened a small workshop in the rear of his Brooklyn home manufacturing padlocks. Outgrowing his home workshop, the company moved into larger quarters on Broadway and Kossuth Place, Brooklyn, New York in (or before) 1869. The company since then has moved its business in 1926 to Marion, Ohio where it currently is operating.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
References[edit]
- ^ Wagner, Vivian (7 April 2007), Producing Locks Since Lincoln, The Spokesman-Review, retrieved 2011-07-15
- ^ |Koepfer, Chris (September 2010), Making Locks Since Lincoln (PDF), Production Machining Magazine
- ^ W. Bohannan Price & Co. List 1869
- ^ Wilson Bohannan catalog circa 1901, Forward p. vi. Also referenced by http://www.tway.org/padlocks/wbstory.html
- ^ U.S. Patents: 27,883, 46,539, 55,047, 55,048, 67,401
- ^ Wilson Bohannan Company website
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