Harlow E. Bundy Residence

Harlow E. Bundy was co-founder of The Bundy Time Recording Company, later to be known as Bundy Manufacturing Company of Binghamton N.Y.. The company was incorporated in 1889 by Harlowe Bundy and his brother Willard Bundy. They specialized in the development of time clocks for business application. Mostly to eliminate the need for timekeepers and watchmen, who would be required to insure that workers were diligent in performing their work. Bundy Manufacturing Company became the first time recording company in the world. It was In 1889, that Willard Bundy, a jeweler and inventor, showed his younger brother one of his latest projects, a time-recording clock. Later that same evening Harlow proposed that they go into business together to manufacture and market a device that could record a worker's arrival and departure time on a paper tape. In 1899, they acquired Standard Time Stamps Company, a manufacturer of time stamps and a card recorder. Bundy Manufacturing Company relocated to Endicott, New York in 1900 and merged with Chicago Time Register Company and became the International Time Recording Company of New York. Harlow continued as general head of operations, and Willard invented and designed new products. In 1911 a consolidation with two other companies resulted in the formation of the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company. Harlow Bundy had distinguished himself as the father of the time-recorder business and a pioneer who played a role in founding one of the largest and most profitable corporations in the world. In 1914, he hired Thomas Watson the future founder of International Business Machines (IBM) as a manager. By this time Harlow Bundy was a wealthy man, but in poor health. He decided to retire by the end of 1914 and move to California. He hired architect Thomas Beverley Keim Jr. of Los Angeles to design a 15,878 square foot ten bedroom home to be built along "Millionaire's Row" in Pasadena, California. At the beginning of 1915, he moved into the Pasadena mansion and started enjoying retired life. His daughter Helen and her husband stayed with him throughout 1915. He died on March 21, 1916 after a brief illness. This image was captured in spring of 1996.