Hollenbeck is granted three double gun patents while he is in Batavia and two are assigned to the Baker Gun & Forging Co. and the "New Baker" is changed from being underbolted to being bolted by a wedge thru a rib extension. The companies name is soon changed to Baker Gun and Forging Co. Baker is ill with TB and Ellis brings in Frank A. burns and they decide to relocate to Batavia, New York.
Baker is back in Syracuse as plant superintendant for his brother. McFarland patented trigger-plate action hammer gun called the "New Baker" and by 1887 W.H. Ellis Baker has a company up in Syracuse called the Syracuse Forging and Gun Co. Baker leaves and forms another gun company with some other members of the Smith family and the Livermores down in Ithaca, New York, using water power from Fall Creek, and making a new Baker designed hammer gun with a conventional top-lever - Ithaca Gun Co. Smith as being the dominant partner as L.C. Baker was making his trigger-break hammer double and three-barrel guns in Lisle, New York, in 1876 and then Syracuse, New York, by 1877, as W.H. What Baker guns does that serial number list apply to?
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