Humphrey must have been there before my time. I always thought that he worked out of Parker-Whelen. Shenandoah Guns used a Berryville address and was almost to the river bridge on Route 7. Ben Toxvard was the proprietor in the seventies. I purchased Ben's Parker try gun in the early seventies when he needed a few bucks to pay for a Hardinge lathe that had just been delivered. Ben always told me that the Parker had been owned by his predecessor in the shop, who I assume was Humphrey. The try gun had belonged to Colonel Townsend Whelen as part of the shop equipment at Parker-Whelen. I had been trying to buy the Parker for years. Now I'm beginning to see the connection. I never realized that Humphrey was probably the gunsmith who lived up on the mountain behind the Shenandoah gun shop. The shop gave up gunsmithing after Ben Toxvard died. His son, I assume it was his son, continued some retail trade for a while, but before long, the shop was closed. The building still stands as far as I know, but I don't know what it is used for.
