Born in Sheffield in about 1828, William Harmar was listed as an American merchant in West Street in 1868.  Besides spending periods in New York (where he had helped Tillotson sell off its stock in 1860), he lived at Rutland Lodge, Collegiate Crescent.  He later moved to Jordanthorpe House, Norton, where the 1871 Census shows him living with his wife, three daughters (one of whom had been born in Brooklyn, New York, in about 1865), and three servants.  By then, the US trade had peaked.  The Sheffield Independent, 8 November 1876, noted that Harmar & Co ‘finding that shams, Barlows, and cheap scale tang table cutlery are not much in demand, have commenced selling the Beaver Falls table cutlery, which, it is said is enabling them to slowly work off a large stock of their own goods, which have been here for a long while’.  William Harmar died at his home Ranfall, Ranmoor, on 12 September 1883, aged 55.  He had suffered from a ‘functional disease’ for some years.  A churchwarden at St John’s, Ranmoor, he was buried in Ecclesall.  He left £10,853 to his widow, Mary.