Aaron Lufkin Dennison

  General notes:

Silversmith and watchmaker

  Events in his life were:

• Apprenticed about 1825 to James Carey in Brunswick ME ³

• He worked from circa 1835 to 1861 as a silversmith and watchmaker in Boston MA as A. L. DENNISON & Co.
Seeing the need for standardization in the making of watch parts and cases, he founded the American Horologue Company in Roxbury MA. The company was renamed the Boston Watch Company and moved to Waltham. When the company failed in 1857, it was bought by New York financiers and renamed the American Watch Company. Dennison remain on as the company's superintendent until 1861.

• He was a partner from 1845 to 1849 with George E. Adams and John Carey Farnsworth in Boston MA as DENNISON, ADAMS & Co, listed in the 1845 city directory at 67 Washington Street.

• He was a partner from 1849 to 1857 with Edward Howard and David Davis in Waltham MA manufacturing interchangeable watch movement parts. The company eventually became the Waltham Watch Company.

• He worked from circa 1865 to 1885 as a watchmaker in Birmingham Warwickshire England where he established a thriving business producing gold and silver watch cases for the trade.