Enos Alvord

Enos and Nelson Alvord, of Westfield, MA, received U.S. Patent #43 on October 11, 1836 for their invention of "a new and improved machine or lathe adapted to the turning of a great variety of articles, both large and small."

• Source - Samuel Morgan Alvord, A genealogy of the descendants of Alexander Alvord, an early settler of Windsor, Conn. and Northampton, Mass (1908), 203.

Other Sources:

• Ancestry.com. Connecticut, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. <link>