Isaiah Blood: Axe and Scythe Maker of Ballston Spa, New York
Publisher: Timothy Starr
Published: 2010
Description: Biography of Isaiah Blood, a prominent axe and scythe maker at Ballston Spa, New York during the mid-1800s. His factories employed up to five hundred men and supported the hamlet of Bloodville.
Table of contents: title: Introduction…1; title: Part I: The Blood Family…5; title: The First Bloods in America; title: Isaiah’s Ancestors; title: The Revolutionary War; title: Prominent Family Members; title: Part II: The Blood Factories…23; title: Early History of Ballston Spa; title: Tool Making on the Kayaderosseras; title: The Art of Scythe Making; title: The Growth of Bloodville; title: Establishment of the Axe Works; title: The Civil War and Reconstruction; title: The Blood Family in New York State; title: Serving the Public; title: Part III: Decline of Bloodville…83; title: The Town’s Largest Funeral; title: Trials of the Blood Family; title: Fate of the Scythe and Axe Works; title: End of the Blood Family; title: American Axe & Tool Catalog…113; title: Blood Family Genealogy…121; title: Account of John Bulkeley…126; title: Bibliography…127; title: Index…129