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Cooper Cutlery
The story began in 1895 when John W. Schatt and Charles B. Morgan established the Schatt & Morgan Cutlery Company. Initially operating as the New York Cutlery Company with administrative offices in New York City, the founders sought a dedicated manufacturing location to build their designs. In 1897, they moved operations to Gowanda, New York, where they utilized the existing infrastructure of the old Platts cutlery plant. A pivotal shift occurred in 1902 when the Titusville Board of Trade successfully recruited the company to Pennsylvania. This move became permanent, and production in...









