Henry O. Studley

[1] Studley joined the Massachusetts Infantry at the start of the Civil War and was captured in Galveston, Texas in 1863.

He died in 1925 and was remembered in his obituary in the Quincy Patriot-Ledger for his tool chest, among his other achievements.

That man's grandson, Peter Hardwick, loaned the chest to the Smithsonian in the late 1980s as part of an exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, until it was purchased by a private collector for an undisclosed amount of money.

The current owner continues to lend the chest to the Smithsonian [2] and other venues;[3] on occasion.

It has been featured on an episode of The New Yankee Workshop[4] and is the subject of a May 1993 article in Taunton's Fine Woodworking and a popular wall poster.