Catalogue of books by English authors who lived before the year 1700, forming a part of the library of Robert Hoe Volume 4
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The Library of Robert Hoe: A Contribution to the History of Bibliophilism in America
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Robert Hoe was an American manufacturer, master carpenter and machinist. He served as head of R. Hoe and Company, and was the inventor of Hoe press.
Background
Robert Hoe was born on October, 29, 1784 in the hamlet of Hoes, Leicestershire, England. He was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Hoe. The family was of Saxon origin, their residence in the county of Leicester dating from the year 1581. Hoe's father was a farmer.
Education
Hoe obtained a rather meager education in the village school, and later was apprenticed to a local carpenter.
Career
At the age of nineteen, before completing the apprenticeship, Hoe was attracted by reports of the conditions of the working man in America, and, purchasing the remainder of his apprenticeship, he emigrated to the United States, landing in New York in September 1803. At that time the yellow fever was raging in New York, and after walking penniless through the plague-stricken city looking for work he applied in desperation to a seedsman. He was given a job, but in a week contracted the fever and would have died except for the kind attentions of the seedsman and his wife. Upon his recovery he obtained through his employer work in building a bridge in Westchester County, New York. There he met Matthew Smith Jr. , and his brother Peter, who were manufacturing printer's type cases and wooden frame hand printing presses after Peter's patented design.
Upon the completion of the bridge in 1805, the Smith brothers, appreciating Hoe's ability and desiring his help, established a carpenter shop in New York City under the firm name of Smith, Hoe & Company. They specialized in wooden hand presses and printer's equipment and in the succeeding fifteen years built up a profitable business, their greatest contribution to the printing art being, probably, the change from the wooden to cast-iron frame for presses and the adoption of the toggle-joint principle instead of the screw for pressure.
After the death of Matthew Smith in 1820 and Peter in 1823, Hoe continued the business under the name of R. Hoe & Company. In 1827 he purchased Samuel Rust's patent for increasing the strength of presses by using wrought iron in the upright frame and incorporated it with his own improvement in a new press called the "Washington. " This proved very popular and continued to be made in great numbers long after Hoe's death.
As early as 1819 Smith, Hoe & Company began experimentation with steam-power presses, which Hoe continued with rather indifferent success. Around 1830, however, he acquired the rights to Isaac Adams' patented power press and began its manufacture. In 1829 there was imported into the United States from England one of Napier's cylinder presses. It was held at the port of New York because of the inability of its purchaser to pay for it. The surveyor of the port called in Hoe to assemble it and permitted him to make models and drawings of its parts. Hoe quickly appreciated that this, the first cylinder press, was far better than anything then known in America, and began building presses like it. He sent one of his employees, Sereno Newton, to England to study the Napier Press and upon his return Hoe and his son made so many improvements on the original Napier, that their cylinder press soon displaced all of the English machines used in the United States.
About 1830 Hoe's health began to fail as a result of overwork, and the business passed into the hands of his eldest son, Richard March Hoe, and his nephew, Matthew Smith.