John Francis Hemenway (1856/1857 – January 1, 1926) was the founder of the Smith & Hemenway tool company. Biography John Francis Hemenway was born in Amber, Onondaga County, New York, the son of Lucy Francis and Seneca C. Hemenway. He married Alice Montague on April 23, 1891. He and Landon P. Smith organized the Smith & Hemenway Company. They bought the Maltby-Henley Company, the Bindley Automatic Wrench Company, Smith & Patterson, and the Windsor Hardware Corporation. In 1925, ownership of the company was in dispute. He retired that year, and Landon P. Smith bought his shares in the company. He died from a heart attack in New York on January 1, 1926. References 1850s births 1926 deaths 20th-century American businesspeople American manufacturing businesspeople People from Onondaga County, New York Red Devil, Inc.