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Kinfolks Knives: A History of Cutlery and Cousins
By: Dean Elliott CaseeBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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i>Kinfolks Knives offers an accurate and factual history of Kinfolks Cutlery. Included are four vintage catalogs to aid collectors in the identification and dating of Kinfolks knives, as well as biographies of Kinfolks founders: Russ Case, Tint Champlin, and Dean Case. Also, for the first time, the personal memories of multiple branches of this American cutlery dynasty are included, as well as a foreword by Brad Lockwood. Providing rare insight into Kinfolks and the families involved in its creation and development, Kinfolks Knives is intended to be the most accurate history of the cutlery compiled to date. A timeline of the family and related cutleries is included for quick reference, as well as answers to the most common questions about the company from www.KinfolksInc.com. The mystery of the Jean Case Cutlery Company is at last explained, and many family photographs and recipes are included. We are all connected through Job Case, all kin, and this book may be the history of only one of thirty-two different cutleries our family has started over our 140+ year history in the industry, but it is much more. After decades of feuding and parting ways to start yet another Case-related cutlery, Kinfolks saw three cousins come together to help one another.
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| Title of eBook: Kinfolks Knives: A History of Cutlery and Cousins | |
| Release Date: 09-07-2010 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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Kinfolks Knives: A History of Cutlery and Cousins
Chapter One
JOB CASEThe Man & Myth
Any history of a Case cutlery would be remiss without the man who made it all possible. Job Russell Case, patriarch of the Case family, was born on July 5, 1821. Ironically, this timeless image of W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery never made a knife and yet that bearded face and solemn expression, called the Case scowl by family, is known to millions. Job taught his offspring a work ethic by example. His pride in labor, craftsmanship and quality is what has made their creations so collectable.
William and Sophia, Job's parents, settled with their eleven children in Cattaraugus County, New York in 1825. William had served in the cavalry during the War of 1812. The entire region was reopened for settlement in 1815 after being forcibly abandoned during the war. With no neighbors for miles in this old-growth forest, he established trade with the Seneca Indians, and worked for others clearing farm land from the forest. William taught his children the rewards of hard work and the wisdom of the Bible, later becoming an elder in the Methodist Church.
Job left home in 1836 at the age of 15, logging and clearing land as his father had done before him. Renowned for being self-learned and laborious, he was able to clear an acre of farmer's land of timber, readying it to plant in only one month. He was soon smitten by Deborah Waite Milks, an educated and refined lawyer's daughter from nearby Napoli. Job and his new bride moved from Cattaraugus County to Wisconsin in 1843, following the work of a lumberman, clearing and logging to keep his famil
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