Thanks, Dave,
I do know that there is at least one branch from which the CASE spelling was
changed to
CASS in the United States.
Thanks! Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Farmer" <dmf5(a)cornell.edu>
To: <Case-Family-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:03 PM
Subject: Re: [CASE mail list] Lewis CASS Hough and Edward CASS Hough
It would seem that Lewis Cass Hough was named after Lewis Cass,
first
governor of Michigan (I grew up in Cass Co). But I don't know if Cass was
derived from Case or if there is a Michigan connection.
Dave Farmer
At 05:54 PM 11/27/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Has anyone any idea of the lineage of these two gentlemen of the Daisy BB
>Gun Manufacturing, please?
>
>Windmill sales did not take off as expected and the company came close in
>1888 to liquidating. The vote to liquidate failed by one vote-that of
>General Manager Lewis Cass Hough. Hamilton, who had designed a metal air
>rifle, visited Hough shortly thereafter. While the "Chicago" air
>rifle--made almost entirely of wood - had been made since 1885 by the
>Markham Air Rifle Company of Plymouth, Hamilton was the first to develop
a
>metal air rifle. After firing the gun (first at a basket of
red-ink
>covered paper and then an old shingle), Hough exclaimed in the slang of
>the time, "Boy, that's a Daisy!" and later convinced the Board of
>Directors to use the metal air rifle as a premium item.
>
>The popularity of the premium item was huge. Farmers were more interested
>in the "Daisy" than the windmill-- so much so that the focus of the
>company shifted from windmills to airguns. By 1890, the twenty-five
>employees of Plymouth Iron Windmill Company were producing 50,000 guns,
>most of which were distributed within a radius of one hundred miles of
the
>factory.
>
>In 1891, the company decided to start selling the air guns and the
company
>at long last began to turn a profit. By 1895, the company stopped
selling
>the unprofitable windmills and went into the air gun business. With a
>change of product came a change in name to Daisy Manufacturing Company.
>
>Edward C. Hough, son of Lewis Cass Hough, provided the best description
of
>the first Daisy air rifle: "Until the advent of the
'Daisy', previous air
>rifles had been made almost entirely of wood, and the increased strength
>and improved design resulted in an immediate increase in demand.
>
>
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