[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] ent occupied by the National Stove Company, a New York City concern, with J. B. Thomas, president. They have the plant of the old "National Stove Com-pany." The number of men employed averages fifty. The firm of Finch & Co., composed of James W. Finch and Charles W. McCutchen, began business at the corner of Elizabeth and Brown Streets, Janu-ary 1, 1882. They manufacture a general line of medium priced stoves and ranges and employ about thirty-five men. The Old Peekskill Plow Works. — In the winter of 1826 — 27, Seth Hoyt erected a building on Main Street, and began the manufacture of plows and plow-castings. Upon his death a few years later his former superintendent, Truman Minor, carried on the business for a time. In 1835, he and Frost Hor-ton formed a partnership, the firm name being Minor & Horton. In 1839, George W. Depew, one of the first two apprentices in the iron business in the vil-lage, (Colonel John H. Hyatt having bet the other) was admitted to the firm, which then became Minor, Horton & Co. Mr. Minor sold his interest in 1855 to Edward B. Finch, and in the following year Mr. Finch's interest was bought by the other partners. The sons of the partners, George W. Depew, Jr., and Stephen D. Horton, were granted the interest pur-chased from Mr. Finch, and the firm-name became Horton, Depew & Sons. In 1864 Mr. Depew, Sr., sold his interest to James B. Brown, who shortly after acquired the interests of Frost Horton and Stephen D. Horton. Mr.