BIOGRAPHY

MARTIN L. KEMPTON - OF ELBA, NY

Martin L. Kempton in 1888 commenced the manufacture of the Batavia combination fence at Elba. In 1889 he located in Batavia at 117 Harvester avenue, and is now using from 10 to 12 tons of wire and 300,000 pickets per year. He also makes ordinary farm fence and fancy picket fence of different varieties.

FROM:
Gazetteer and Biographical Record
of Genesee County, New York
Edited by: F. W. Beers
J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890