There were 6 brothers and 1 sister, the 6 brothers had in one way or another an interest in the Hunter Arms Gun Co. The sister married George Livermore who later on with Leroy Smith and a few other business men started the Ithaca Gun Co. In Houchins' book he states the booklet given to George from Lyman was one of the brothers, he was not. There are mistakes in Houchins' book but we all make them. Still a very interesting book to own if you are interested in L.C. Smiths.
The workers from Syracuse that wanted to go to Fulton were welcome to do so.
The reason these early Fulton guns had the attributes of the Syracuse guns was because of the machinery and dies and all the tooling to make the Syracuse guns, until Hunter Arms could make their own dies and tooling, and so the changes were mainly a cost factor.
