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title	:	A Rural Carpenter's World : The Craft in a Nineteenth-century New York Township American Land and Life Series
author	:	Franklin, Wayne.
publisher	:	University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0877452776
print isbn13	:	9780877452775
ebook isbn13	:	9781587290732
language	:	English
subject	Carpentry--New York (State)--Westford, Carpenters--New York (State)--Westford.
publication date	:	1990
lcc	:	TH5608.7.F73 1990eb
ddc	:	694/.09747/09034
subject	:	Carpentry--New York (State)--Westford, Carpenters--New York (State)--Westford.

Page i A Rural Carpenter's World

Page ii The American Land and Life Series Edited by Wayne Franklin

Page iii A Rural Carpenter's World The Craft in a Nineteenth-Century New York Township Wayne Franklin University of Iowa Press Iowa City

Page iv University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright (c) 1990 by the University of Iowa All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1990 Design by Richard Hendel No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Franklin, Wayne. A rural carpenter's world: the craft in a nineteenth-century New York township/ by Wayne Franklin.1st ed. p. cm.(American land and life series) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87745-277-6 (alk. paper) 1. CarpentryNew York (State) Westford. 2. Carpenters-New York (State)Westford. I. Title. II. Series. TH5608.7.F73 1990 89-20613 694.0974709034dc20 CIP Figures 5, 16, 21, 23, and 42 courtesy of the New York State Historical Association. Photos for figures 3, 4, 11, 12, 15, 18, 35, 37, 38, 40, and 43 supplied by NYSHA. Photos for figures 13, 17, 19, 22, 24, 44, 45, and 46, from the Raymond C. Tyler Scrapbook, NYSHA Collections, supplied by NYSHA. All other figures courtesy of the author. Frontispiece: Abandoned graveyard north of Westford, New York

Page v CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Preface John R. Stilgoe ix Introduction: Documenting the Crafts 1 Part One: Craft 1. The World of James Holmes 9 2. The Holmes Diary for 1869 37 3. The Major Jobs of 1869 74 Part Two: Context 4. Carpentry in Otsego County in the Nineteenth Century 101 5. The Carpenters of Westford 136 Conclusion: Skill and Responsibility 182 General Note on Sources 195 Appendix 1. Westford in 1869: A Biographical Guide 199 Appendix 2. The Carpenters of Westford: A Biographical Gallery 227 Appendix 3. The Holmes Memoranda 261 Notes 265 Index 291

Page vii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A carpenter who builds a house owes debts beyond the obvious ones. In writing this book about carpentry, I too found the debts accumulating with surprising speed. The help and encouragement given me by the staff of the New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown, especially by librarian Amy Barnum and her staff, and by Wendell Tripp, editor of New York History, were invaluable from the start. The collections in NYSHA's wonderful quarters-collections of manuscripts but also of tools, so spacious is the sense of history there-were essential to all I did. Lewis J. Holmes, the great-grandnephew of "my" carpenter and himself the town historian in Westford, was a gracious and illuminating guide to the landscape where he had spent his life preserving the past. Even in a state blessed with so many official local historians, it seemed to me that Westford was indeed very fortunate in Lewis Holmes. Mrs. John Ahern generously let me see the inside of James C. Holmes's old house, much as John Silvernail (whose grandparents had owned it at one time) spent an afternoon telling me about the house and the barn which once stood across the road from it. During my tenure as a faculty scholar at the University of Iowa (1982-1984), the office of the vice-president for academic affairs, especially Fredrick Woodard, gave me generous financial support. Without that aid, the project might never have been begun, let alone finished. My colleagues in the American Studies program, who have

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