Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Fay, Rimmen C. August 6, 1848 - 
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Fay, Rimmen C., German Flats, superintendent of the Remington Armory, born in 
Ludlow, Mass., Aug. 6, 1848.  After having received a liberal preliminary 
educaiton he was employed for several years by the Colt's Patent Fire-Arms 
Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Conn., as machinist, contractor and 
draughtsman.  During this time he made complete sets of working drawings fo 
the celebrated Gatling Machine Gun under the direction of the inventor, Dr. 
Richard J. Gatling.  He left Colt's Armory to enter the employ of the Fales & 
Jenks Machine Company at Pawtucket, R. I., as contractor upon the well-known 
Rabbeth spindle, and remained there about seven years, when Mr. Rabbeth sold  
his interest in the spindle to the Hopedale Machine Company of Hopedale, 
Mass.  Mr. Fay was then engaged by the Hopedale Machine Company to design the 
tools and fixtures required to manufacture the spindles there.  After this was 
accomplished he was engaged for about two years manufacturing the spindles by 
contract, after which he was engaged as superintendent of the Hopedale Machine 
Company's entire works.  After having served in this capacity for about four 
years he resigned the position on account of ill health.  He next entered the 
employ of the Pratt & Whitney Company of Hartford, Conn., as designer and 
draughtsman of special machinery and also as traveling salesman.  He remained 
with this company until he was engaged July 1, 1888, by the Remington Arms 
Comany as superintendent.  Mr. Fay has taken out about twenty patents.  He is 
a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the leading 
mechanical engineering society in the United States.  In 1870 Mr. Fay married 
Miss A. Izette Doane, of Brookfield, Mass., and they have a family of seven 
children.  Mr. Fay's father was Lucius N. Fay, of Brookfield, Mass., and Mrs. 
Fay's father was Cheney Doane, of the same place, who was a cousin of Bishop 
William Croswell Doane, of Albany.  Her grandfather was a drum-major in the 
Revolutionary War, and her uncle, Nathan Doane, was a drum-major in the war of 
1812, both father and son using the same drum, the live oak shell of which is 
now in the possession of the G. A. R. Post of Worcester, Mass.  Her 
grandfather was a lineal descendant of John Adams.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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