- Laroy S. Starrett
Laroy Sunderland Starrett (1836 – 1922) was a businessman and inventor. He founded the
L. S. Starrett Company inAthol, Massachusetts and held about 100patent s for various inventions.Starrett was born in
China, Maine .He rented a farm at the age of twenty-six in
Newburyport, Massachusetts . He was very successful at farming, and was always tinkering with new tools and new techniques.Starrett's first invention was a meat chopping machine that he called the Hasher. After his success with this invention, he left farming behind and turned to the world of business.
He eventually bought the
Athol Machine Company in 1905.He patented such items as the sliding
combination square , bench vises, and ashoe hook fastener . His company made precisionsteel rules and tapes,caliper s, andmicrometer s, among other things.References
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