J.T Slocomb’s Personal History

J. T. Slocomb was born at Four Falls, New Brunswick, Canada, in 1864.
His parents moved to Maine when he was an infant and he lived in Fort
Fairfield, Maine, until he was sixteen years old, when he went to Bangor
and entered the employ of the Bangor Foundry & Machine Co. as a
machinists apprentice. He worked there four years and then went to the
Brainard Milling Machine Co. at Hyde Park, Mass., afterward working for
short periods for II. B. Smith Machine Co., Smithville, N. J., Holyoke
Machine Co , Holyoke, Mass., Browne & Sharpe Mfg. Co., Providence, R. I.,
and the Rhode Island Locomotive Works, Providence, R. I. He began the
manufacture of the Slocomb micrometer in 1893.