Barrett, vice president and production manager; T. R. 
Foster, secretary. 
The directors of the company are: F. F. Nicola, J. F. 
Keenan, J. H. Cannon, A. W. Barrett, P. C. Dunlevy 
Its successful development of printers’ precision ma- 
chinery and its remarkable growth in a tonnage industrial 
center, is an evidence that technical and diversified indus- 
tries have a proper place in Pittsburgh. 
NATIONAL CASKET COMPANY, INC. 
The National Casket Company, Incorporated, is a 
nation-wide concern for the manufacture and distribution 
of burial receptacles and equipment required for the conduct 
of modern funerals. 
In 1864 William Hamilton, James T. Arnold, J. W. Car- 
nahan and H. G. Algeo started the first coffin and casket 
factory west of the Allegheny Mountains, known as the 
Excelsior Coffin and Casket Works, the original plant being 
located on Virgin alley, now Oliver avenue, Pittsburgh, 
Pa. In the 80s they moved to old Allegheny. The firm 
name was changed to the Hamilton, Lemmon, Arnold Com- 
pany. In 1890 this company consolidated with the Chap- 
pell, Chase, Maxwell Company of Oneida, N. Y., and the 
Stein Manufacturing Company of Rochester, N. Y., and 
formed the National Casket Company, Inc.. with an au- 
thorized capital of $3,000,000. 
Some years later they added to the consolidation a num- 
ber of other firms in the south and southwest, increasing the 
capital to $6,000,000. The present authorized capital stock 
of the company consists of an equal number of shares of 
non-par preferred stock and non-par common stock. 
The late William Hamilton of the North Side, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa., was the first president of the National Casket 
Company, Inc. The present officers of the company are 
P. B. Heintz of Boston, president and general manager; 
Leo Stein of New York City, first vice president; F. C. Guth- 
rie of Nashville, Tenn., second vice president; H. M. Tuttle 
of Boston, Mass.. third vice president: W. E. Carnahan of