Smith & Hall
The partners were William Hemsworth Smith (1825-1916), who had been born in West Stockwith, near Gainsborough; and William Greaves Hall (c.1836-1904), who was the son of Edward Hall, a cooper. Established in the mid-1860s, the enterprise was an American merchant and table knife manufacturer, with an office in Carver Street and a New York agency in Beekman Street. By 1871, the address was Eagle Place, Carver Street (the former haunt of William Parker of Parker Bros). Smith & Hall marketed table and pocke....
