I think there is confusion going around here. It was Dr. Ellis Baker's Syracuse Forging & Gun Co., builder of the "New Baker" trigger-plate action hammer gun, of A.C. McFarland design, that burned in 1888 and then moved to Batavia in 1889, with Frank A. Hollenbeck as the new superintendent. Soon thereafter the company name was changed to Baker Gun & Forging Co. In 1893, Frank A. Hollenbeck left Baker and returned to Syracuse to found the Syracuse Arms Co.