GOLD MEDAL
SEWING MACHINE COMPANY
Orange, Massachusetts
1860 (?)- 1882
by
Johnson, Clark & Co. (?)
IMPROVED HOME SHUTTLE
US 7.776 A. B. WILSON November 12, 1850
US 8.294 I. M. SINGER August 12, 1851
US 7.931 GROVER & BAKER February 11, 1851
US 9.041 A. B. WILSON June 15, 1852
US 9.053 GROVER & BAKER June 22, 1852
US 12.233 J. S. CONANT Jan 16, 1855
Last Patent December 1865
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Barker, who was White's main seller, decided to leave him and founded his own company, the Gold Medal Sewing Machine Company to produce a machine named "The Pride of the West" and later "the New England Machine".
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The Gold Medal Sewing Machine Company, Orange, Massachusetts which was established in 1860 by Johnson, Clark & Co. to manufacture sewing machines. The company introduced it's Home Shuttle machine in 1870 which was subsequently redesigned and improved.
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In 1867 the Barker-Clark combination having developed the Gold Medal Sewing Machine Company, moved the plant to Orange, Massachusetts just as his former employer Thomas Howard White had done and a stock company was formed on April 27 of that year. The first annual meeting of the Board was held on July 31, 1867. Andrew J. Clark was elected President, with John Wilson Wheeler Secretary-Treasurer and Stephen French as Superintendent.
John Wilson Wheeler, Andrew J. Clark and Stephen French had all previously worked with Thomas Howard White.
In 1877 William L. Grout became a partner in the Gold Medal Sewing Machine Company.
In 1878 William L. Gout was made Superintendent and General Manager of the Gold Medal Sewing Machine Company.
In August 26, 1879, Eddy T. Thomas apply for patent US 219.038
In October 21, 1879, William Taylor Elliott apply for patent US 220.816
In 1881 Horace Webster Hadley became Assistant Superintendent of the New Home Sewing Machine Co. at Orange, Massachusetts and ten years later (1891) he went to the National Sewing Machine 'Co., Belvidere, 111.,in a similar capacity.
In 1882, January 25, the Gold Medal Sewing Machine Company was reorganised and became New Home Sewing Machine Company with John Wilson Wheeler as a chairman.