William H. Baker was making his trigger break guns in Marathon and then Lisle, NY, in the 1875 and 76 time frame. Then formed a partnership with L.C. Smith, Leroy Smith and George Livermore as W.H. Baker & Co. and moved to Syracuse, NY, in 1877. A couple of years later the partnership disolved when W.H. Baker, Leroy Smith and George Livermore headed to Ithaca to make a new Baker-designed gun, leaving L.C. Smith as the Maker of the Baker gun in Syracuse.