1829 - 1892. New York. James Conner (d. 1861). Started a stereotype plant in 1827. In 1829 obtained the services of Edwin Starr (who most recently had been at the Edwin & Richard Starr foundry) to start the foundry side of his own business. Conner may have purchased the materials of the Edwin & Richard Starr foundry from their brother Charles Starr (as Annenberg says on p. 114). (Or they may have gone to any of several other locations.) James Conner died in 1861; firm renamed James Conner's Sons (William C. Conner, James Madison Conner (d. 1887), and (no financial interest but active in firm) Charles S. Conner).
In 1856 sold a complete foundry outfit to Edward Miller, late of the Albany Type Foundry, who took it to Milwaukee and established the Northwestern Type Foundry.
Amalgamated with American Type Founders at its creation in 1892. Charles S. Conner (son of James Madison Conner). managed the Baltimore branch of ATF. Benjamin Franklin Conner (also son of James Madison Conner) established Conner, Fendler & Co. and Bentley, Conner & Co., both of which sold, but may or may not have cast, type.
1873. Supplementary Specimens
Supplementary Specimens of Printing Types[,] Borders, Rules and Ornaments, from the United States Type Foundry of Jas. Conner's Sons, New York . (NY: James Conner's Sons, 1873.) This has been digitized by Google Books from the NYPL copy and is available via The Hathi Trust. The icon at left links to that digitization. The date of this volume is from the metadata for the original library volume. Here is a local copy of the Hathi Trust edition assembled from the pages scans there: conners-1873-google-hathi-nyp-33433000823413-png.pdf
1888. Abridged Specimens of Printing Types
David W. Peat has reprinted a selection of pages (about half) from the 1888 Abridged Specimens of Printing Types, Brass Rule, Electrotypes, and Revised Catalogue of Printing Materials . It was beautifully printed by Richard Hopkins at his Pioneer Press of West Virginia and is (in 2011) available from David Peat at 1225 Carroll White Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46219. 122pp with a new introduction by Hopkins.
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