Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Pike, J. W. 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Pike, J. W., proprietor of the Pike Knitting Machine Company, Little Falls, is 
a native of Vermont. After a preliminary education and a course in a 
polytechnic school, he traveled on the road as salesman in the canned goods 
line for some time. Abandoning this he went to Philadelphia and engaged in the 
manufacture of machinery for knit goods, etc. This was about eleven years ago. 
In 1887 he came to Little Falls and established his present enterprise, which 
is the manufacture of Pike's patent latch needle, knitting machines, hosiery 
winders and general mill machinery. Mr. Pike is an expert in his business, and 
goes out and sets up his own machines. He is a member of the Royal Arcanum, 
the Elks, the Commercial Travelers' Association, etc. His father also was a 
manufacturer and had works at Chelmsford, Mass. The Pike Knitting Machine 
Company employs thirty-eight hands, and turns out standard machines in every
case.

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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