The namesake Berry and Orton were Lucien H. Berry and Lyman Osgood Orton. Both men held patents for woodworking machinery.
Berry & Orton was another owner of The Atlantic Works; other owners of that manufactory included
The operating years of Berry & Orton are currently not well understood. They grew out of London, Berry & Orton, and that transition occurred sometime between 1883 and 1893. Berry & Orton lasted until at least 1893.
Using patent dates visible in the drawings in an 1893 Berry & Orton catalog, we can identify several of the patents as belonging to other companies, most notably S. A. Woods Machine Co. of Boston, who seem to have made most of Berry & Orton's planers. The No. 1 scroll saws in the Berry & Orton catalog and the L. Power & Co. 1929 catalog are identical—even the drawings and text are virtually identical. It is not clear who the actual manufacturer was.
Information Sources
- 1893 catalog of woodworking machinery, 263 pages. Catalog is subtitled "Atlantic Works".