William Henry Scovill

     William Henry Scovill was born on 27 July 1796, in Waterbury, CT. He was educated say 1810 at Cheshire Academy in Cheshire, CT, Cheshire Academy was established in 1794 by Samuel Seabury, an Episcopalian Bishop.¹ At Age 17 he was a clerk for Mr. Peck in New Hampshire, who then established him in business in Waterbury. Later in business at Turner's Crossroads, North Carolina. In 1827 he purchased half interest in the firm of Leavenworth, Hayden and Scovill, then the name was changed to J.M.Leavenworth and W.H.Scovill. He was an Episcopalian. He married Eunice Ruth Davies, daughter of Thomas John Davies and Ruth Foote, on Monday, 2 July 1827. William lived in Waterbury, CT. He was a businessman. His wife Eunice died on 25 November 1839 in Waterbury, CT, at age 32 leaving him a widower. William Henry Scovill married Rebecca Hopkins Smith say 1840.¹ William Henry Scovill died on 27 March 1854 in Charleston, South Carolina, at age 57.

Scoville Manufacturing

(It was)not until the 1890s that typed letters became more the norm than the exception in the company." (JoAnne Yates, Control through Communication, 1989, p. 131.) The workforce of the Scoville Manufacturing Co., which made brass products, increased from 314 in 1874 to 1,157 in 1892. Yates reports that "In 1888 the first typewritten letters appeared in Scovill's press books, interspersed with the still more common handwritten ones....By 1889 Scovill had hired a female typist." (p. 168).²