Joseph Rodgers & Company
Trade advertisements stated that this company started in 1800 (supposedly). But it did not appear in directories until 1871, when ‘Joseph Rodgers’ was listed as a spring knife manufacturer at 29 Norfolk Street. It was the ‘successor to John Rodgers & Sons’. The partners were Samuel Rodgers (1814-1883) and Joseph Rodgers (1847-1920). Their father was Samuel (1814-1850), who was son of the founder of John Rodgers & Sons. In the Census (1871), Samuel and Joseph....
