J. Ward & Company
James Ward was born in Sheffield in about 1815. Little is known about his early life, but in 1843 (soon after his marriage) he joined the exodus of Sheffield cutlers to America. By about 1850, he has settled in Matteawan (a village north of New York City), where Sheffielders (including Thomas J. Bradley) had established a co-operative cutlery venture. When these cutlers moved to Walden in Orange County, New York, James moved with them (Newman, 20011). In 1860, the US Census enumerated James and ....
