Civil War Veteran (Private – 130th Ohio Infantry, Company C, May 2-Sep 22, 1864) Inventor and manufacturer of articles from tin plate. In April 1869, his older brother and Civil War veteran, Oliver W. Norton, became his business partner and the firm was known as E. Norton & Co. In 1870, they moved the company from Toledo, OH to Chicago, IL and incorporated under the name Norton Brothers. They also had plants in MD and Canada. As an inventor, Edwin designed mechanized machinery to do away with tedious hand labor. By 1890 he had perfected the first automated can manufacturing equipment, including solder-trimmed caps to hermetically vacuum-seal cans, and held patents for over 5,000 inventions. First manufacturer of tin-plated campaign buttons for 1892 Republican National Convention.
Edwin Norton is listed in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Volume XV, James T. White & Co New York 1916, p 215; Who's Who In America, Volume VII, 1912-1913, p 1553.
Edwin Norton married Lucy Evelyn Akin on October 9, 1876 and they had five children: Arthur Willcox, Sylvia, Evelyn, Henrietta and Edwin Kenneth. They lived in Marwood, IL and then Manhattan, NY.
Excerpt from Obituary in New York Tribune – January 2, 1915, p 9 :
"Edwin Norton, an inventor of machines and processes and manufacturing of cans, who was one of the founders and the first president of the American Can Company, died Thursday at his home, 640 West End Avenue, of heart disease. He was 69 years old. He obtained more than 5,000 patents in the last twenty-five years. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army. At the close of the war, he engaged in the manufacturing of cans. For many years, he was a partner in the firm of Norton Brothers of Chicago. He leaves a wife, two sons and three daughters."
NOTE: New York Death Certificate #66 confirms burial in Woodlawn on 2 Jan 1915. However, his name is engraved in a Norton family mausoleum in Valhalla Cemetery when his wife, Lucy, died in 1938. (See # 232278478). He may have been re-interred in this mausoleum.
Edwin Norton is listed in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Volume XV, James T. White & Co New York 1916, p 215; Who's Who In America, Volume VII, 1912-1913, p 1553.
Edwin Norton married Lucy Evelyn Akin on October 9, 1876 and they had five children: Arthur Willcox, Sylvia, Evelyn, Henrietta and Edwin Kenneth. They lived in Marwood, IL and then Manhattan, NY.
Excerpt from Obituary in New York Tribune – January 2, 1915, p 9 :
"Edwin Norton, an inventor of machines and processes and manufacturing of cans, who was one of the founders and the first president of the American Can Company, died Thursday at his home, 640 West End Avenue, of heart disease. He was 69 years old. He obtained more than 5,000 patents in the last twenty-five years. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army. At the close of the war, he engaged in the manufacturing of cans. For many years, he was a partner in the firm of Norton Brothers of Chicago. He leaves a wife, two sons and three daughters."
NOTE: New York Death Certificate #66 confirms burial in Woodlawn on 2 Jan 1915. However, his name is engraved in a Norton family mausoleum in Valhalla Cemetery when his wife, Lucy, died in 1938. (See # 232278478). He may have been re-interred in this mausoleum.
Civil War Veteran (Private – 130th Ohio Infantry, Company C, May 2-Sep 22, 1864) Inventor and manufacturer of articles from tin plate. In April 1869, his older brother and Civil War veteran, Oliver W. Norton, became his business partner and the firm was known as E. Norton & Co. In 1870, they moved the company from Toledo, OH to Chicago, IL and incorporated under the name Norton Brothers. They also had plants in MD and Canada. As an inventor, Edwin designed mechanized machinery to do away with tedious hand labor. By 1890 he had perfected the first automated can manufacturing equipment, including solder-trimmed caps to hermetically vacuum-seal cans, and held patents for over 5,000 inventions. First manufacturer of tin-plated campaign buttons for 1892 Republican National Convention.
Edwin Norton is listed in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Volume XV, James T. White & Co New York 1916, p 215; Who's Who In America, Volume VII, 1912-1913, p 1553.
Edwin Norton married Lucy Evelyn Akin on October 9, 1876 and they had five children: Arthur Willcox, Sylvia, Evelyn, Henrietta and Edwin Kenneth. They lived in Marwood, IL and then Manhattan, NY.
Excerpt from Obituary in New York Tribune – January 2, 1915, p 9 :
"Edwin Norton, an inventor of machines and processes and manufacturing of cans, who was one of the founders and the first president of the American Can Company, died Thursday at his home, 640 West End Avenue, of heart disease. He was 69 years old. He obtained more than 5,000 patents in the last twenty-five years. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army. At the close of the war, he engaged in the manufacturing of cans. For many years, he was a partner in the firm of Norton Brothers of Chicago. He leaves a wife, two sons and three daughters."
NOTE: New York Death Certificate #66 confirms burial in Woodlawn on 2 Jan 1915. However, his name is engraved in a Norton family mausoleum in Valhalla Cemetery when his wife, Lucy, died in 1938. (See # 232278478). He may have been re-interred in this mausoleum.
Edwin Norton is listed in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, Volume XV, James T. White & Co New York 1916, p 215; Who's Who In America, Volume VII, 1912-1913, p 1553.
Edwin Norton married Lucy Evelyn Akin on October 9, 1876 and they had five children: Arthur Willcox, Sylvia, Evelyn, Henrietta and Edwin Kenneth. They lived in Marwood, IL and then Manhattan, NY.
Excerpt from Obituary in New York Tribune – January 2, 1915, p 9 :
"Edwin Norton, an inventor of machines and processes and manufacturing of cans, who was one of the founders and the first president of the American Can Company, died Thursday at his home, 640 West End Avenue, of heart disease. He was 69 years old. He obtained more than 5,000 patents in the last twenty-five years. During the Civil War, he served in the Union Army. At the close of the war, he engaged in the manufacturing of cans. For many years, he was a partner in the firm of Norton Brothers of Chicago. He leaves a wife, two sons and three daughters."
NOTE: New York Death Certificate #66 confirms burial in Woodlawn on 2 Jan 1915. However, his name is engraved in a Norton family mausoleum in Valhalla Cemetery when his wife, Lucy, died in 1938. (See # 232278478). He may have been re-interred in this mausoleum.
Gravesite Details
Interred at Woodlawn on January 2, 1915,per death certificate. Possibly removed from Woodlawn to Norton family mausoleum in Kensico Cemetery on 29 June 1915. [See Findagrave #232278478]
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