Description:
Molding plane made by the D. & M. Copeland, a plane making partnership in Hartford, Connecticut, by brothers Daniel and Melvin Copeland, which was in business from 1822 to 1825. The plane is branded: "D.&M. COPELAND/HARTFORD." The Pocket Register for the City of Hartford, CT of 1825 lists D. & M. Copeland as manufacturers of joinery tools and lists their address as No. 7 Central Row, upstairs. Daniel was born in 1794, in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and died in 1854. He probably apprenticed with Lonard Kennedy, Sr. In 1826, he joined Hermon Chapin to form Copeland & Chapin, and what became the Union Factory. In 1828, Chapin bought out Daniel, who, after 1842, moved to Huntington, Massachusetts, and probably rejoined his brother Melvin at M. Copeland & Co. Melvin was also born in Sturbridge, in 1797 and died in 1866, and likely trained with Kennedy. From 1826 to 1830, he made planes with his brother Alfred in Hartford as M. & A. Copeland. In 1849, he was listed in the New England Mercantile Union directory as a plane maker in Cummington, Massachusetts. In the 1850 US Census, he is listed as a manufacturer in Huntington, Massachusetts, and described as employing 15 "hands" using water power planers, circular saws, lathes, and producing planes worth $12,000. Related objects: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1979.070.002 and 008.
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