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Hill paid back the $4,000 he had stolen, and died in early 1916, not too long after the death of Martin Christensen.Īkro Agate began marble production late in 1914.
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Christensen presented the courts with evidence of Hill's embezzlement. In 1915, a year following Akro Agate's relocation, and the same year in which Hill submitted a slightly different patent which was approved by the patent office, M.F. Hill had applied for a patent on a marble-making machine in 1912 but it was at first rejected for being to similar to Martin Christensen's machine perhaps Hill had stolen more than money from his employer. In 1914, Hill moved the company to Clarksburg, West Virginia. Hill left the company in 1913 and joined up with Rankin and Marsh. Hill, was embezzling money from his employer. In fact, their shop was located not too far away from the Christensen factory. They used as their trademark, which was registered the following year, a crow holding marbles in its feet and beak and flying through a capital "A." For the first three years of the company's existence they simply bought and repackaged marbles made by M.F. The Akro Agate Company, perhaps the best known of the marble manufacturers and certainly the most prolific during most of their career, was formed in 1910 in Akron, Ohio, by George T.