History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . YONKERS. 101 the United States, and without which it would bepracticably impossible to cany on the business of thecountry within the space allotted to it, and especiallyin the high buildings which now characterize all ourlarge cities. This engine proving somewhat defectivein operation, Mr. Otis himself, in 1860-61, inventedand patented an important improvement which effect-ually remedied its most troublesome defect, and fromthat time forward for several yea
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . YONKERS. 101 the United States, and without which it would bepracticably impossible to cany on the business of thecountry within the space allotted to it, and especiallyin the high buildings which now characterize all ourlarge cities. This engine proving somewhat defectivein operation, Mr. Otis himself, in 1860-61, inventedand patented an important improvement which effect-ually remedied its most troublesome defect, and fromthat time forward for several years this hoisting-en-gine continued to be the standard machine in its line. On the election of Mr. Lincoln and the breakingout of the Rebellion in 1860 and 1861, there was aperiod of financial depression, during which theelevator business was prostrated, and losses and mis-fortune left it at the time of Mr. E. G. Otis death in1861, much encumbered and paralyzed. Mr. Otis, atthis time twenty-six years of age, had accumulated insavings about fifteen hundred dollars. His brother,Mr. Norton P. Otis, had also a few hundred dollars,and tog
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