J. S. & M. Peckham
In 1820, Seth Peckham establsihes a Utica foundry to make plows and other iron tools on the Erie Canal near corner of John and Catherine Streets. 1
A very detialed history of J. S. & M. Peckham is offered here, The Parlor Stove as a Work of Art: The Peckham Brothers, Erastus Dow Palmer, and a Few Questions, with an image reproduced below...
The above reference offers the following insight and more regarding the J. S. & M. Peckham company...
"...a parlor stove designed in Utica, NY, and patented in October 1845 by John S. Peckham and his younger half-brother Merritt, proprietors of one of the city's foundries that had been in the stove-making business for at least a decade. It was their first patent of any kind, and it was unlike any other that I had ever read."
"The stove itself was quite different from any other that I had ever seen too, even in the low-resolution image presented on the US Patent and Trademark Office's site. While the Peckhams' competitors, notably in Albany and Troy a hundred miles to the east down the Mohawk Valley, were producing parlor stoves that were either just decorated boxes (see e.g. Jagger, Treadwell & Perry of Albany's "Gothic"-pattern stove of 1846) or decorated boxes surmounted by two, three, or four columns and an upper box (see my post on this distinctive contemporary type), the Peckhams offered the public a very unusual box with a uniquely rounded and elongated shape, a bit like a flask with an enormous bunch of fruit and flowers in place of the stopper (or the urn on conventional stoves)."
Learn more about Utica's history of Furnace And Boiler Makers. Also consider, Fires, Furnaces & Forges to understand how the indoor heating industry emerged.
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