William Sellers & Company, Inc.

William Sellers, a member of the illustrious Sellers family of inventors and mechanicians and one of America's leading mechanical engineers, was born in Upper Darby, Pa., on September 19, 1824, and died on January 1, 1905.

Sellers attended a private school run by his family, and between the ages of 14 and 21 served his apprenticeship in the Wilmington, Del., machine shop of his uncle J. Morton Poole. In 1845 he took charge of the shops of Bancroft, Nightingale & Co. in Providence, R.I.

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