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ON THE WEB:
Invention Dimension - Inventor of the Week
Celebrates inventor/innovator role models through outreach activities and annual awards to inspire a new generation of American scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs.
Quackenbush Family Biography
Found at Darci's Place of Origins - Featuring New York - Wisconsin Biographies and Resources,
Genealogy Lineages, Memoirs, Sketches, Book Indexes All With New York Origins
The Nutcracker Museum
While the emphasis is on the antique nutcrackers, the museum also displays the nutcrackers of the current makers. The largest producer today of the wooden toy nutcrackers is Christian Steinbach of Germany. The museum is located in Leavenworth, Washington.
Find A Grave
Find the graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual flowers' and a note to a loved one's grave, etc.
H.M. Quackenbush founded in !871
HMQ Metal Finishing Group has a total of 119 employees among its three operating units and corporate offices, 75 of whom are employed at H.M. Quackenbush in Herkimer, 23 at HMQ Chemtech LLL in Oriskany, seven at HMQ National Plating LLC in Syracuse, and 14 at the holding company's offices. Frederick H. Hager, chairman and CEO of the group and the greatgreat grandson of founder Henry M. Quackenbush, the group has annual revenues approaching $10 million.. POP-UP ADS.

WHERE TO FIND:
Original Quackenbush Nutcracker
Gray & Holt Dry Goods, Inc. have an original Quackenbush Nutcracker for sale at their online store..
(URL: www.grayandholt.com/cooking.htm)

DID YOU KNOW?

• In 1867, he had begun inventing and marketing devices on his own, including his first successful creation, the extension ladder. He sold the patent for this invention for $500.

• Since 1913 nearly 200 million nutcrackers have been sold worldwide.

• If you come across a metal nutcracker marked with QBC it was made by Quakenbush's company