1976 Dr. Naylor 50 years in business, 1969 Oldtimers honored, 2005 Small Business of the Year,

From The Daily Star, Feb 14, 1976.

The H. W. Naylor Co. of Morris, manufacturers of veterinary medicines, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 1976. Located on Main Street in the Otsego County village, the company now produces more than 600 miles of dilators annually - each one
of which are an inch in length. Shown working at Naylor are, from left, Alfretta Thayer, Irene Springett, Marjorie Fuller, Bessie Cobb, Arlyn Wade, Anne Morton, Chloe Laubmeier and Marie Strait.

The Daily Star, Dec 23, 1969.

MORRIS - H. W. Naylor Co., manufacturers of veterinary products held its annual Christmas gathering.

Particularly honored by the firm was George Roffe, who has spent 40 years of his life with the corporation. He was presented with a watch by Executive Vice President F. R. Elliott.

Roffe started with the Naylor firm in 1929 as a farm hand. He was later promoted to farm manager, and after leaving the research farm, came into the manufacturing division of the corporation.

Also honored was Mrs. Emma Johnson, an employee for 25 years.

Festivities were concluded with the passing of dividend checks to each employee equalling five per cent of their annual wage. Each employee also received one pound of butter from the present farm manager, Robert Brooks.

A business that had "everything we looked for" will be honored this week as the sixth annual small business of the year, said the president and chief executive officer of the Otsego County Chamber.

The H.W. Naylor Co. in Morris was selected to receive the sixth-annual small business of the year award last month. The business will receive its award at the small business banquet at the Otesaga Resort in Cooperstown on Thursday.
"They fit every part of what we were looking for,” said Rob Robinson, president and chief executive officer of the chamber. "They just do the job.”

Robinson said Howard Elliott, co-owner of the H.W. Naylor Co., seemed stunned when Robinson and Morris Central School Superintendent Michael Virgil, who had nominated the business, told him about the award.

“We were indeed," Elliott said last week. “We were very pleased and were very surprised to be considered for the award."
Elliott, 59, co-owns the company with his wife, Eileen. H.W. Naylor has 12 employees and has been on Main Street in Morris since its inception.
Dr. Howard W. Naylor founded the company in 1926; it will celebrate its 80th birthday next year. Naylor was Elliott's grandfather.

“I think he would be very pleased also," Elliott said of what he thought his grandfather's reaction would be to the company's award.

Naylor was active in the company until his death in 1969, Elliott said.
Then, the business went to daughter Alma Naylor Elliott, who passed it to Elliott and his brother, John.

Naylor's pharmaceuticals are primarily for farm animals, Elliott said.
“These products are sent throughout the United States, Canada, and several other countries throughout the world,” Elliott said.

The company makes all of its products in the Morris factory.

They include animal aspirin, teat dilators, udder balm and antiseptics.
Products are similar to those that the company made when it was founded in 1926.
The 12 employees at the company are like family, Elliott said.

"This is the best place in the world to live," he said.

Elliott said the company was grateful to the chamber and KeyBank for the award, and that it was nice to recognize small businesses for being the backbone of the community.

KeyBank and the chamber Cosponsor the small-business award.

H.W. Naylor is a third-generation business that had received little recognition for the work it had done over the past 80 years, Robinson said.

"They are committed to the community," he said. “That's what a small business is all about."

The small-business banquet will start with a reception at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Otesaga. Reservations are required, and the dinner event costs $45 per person.
Call the chamber at 432-4500 to make a reservation for the banquet.