Members of the Farnham family were major suppliers of spinning wheels for the areas around Bradford County, Pennsylvania and Tioga County, New York. Joel Farnham of Owego, New York began making spinning wheels in the early nineteenth century, and his two sons, Joel Farnham Junior and Frederick Augustus Farnham, continued to make wheels as did a son-in-law, Enoch Slosson Williams. Fortunately, Farnham family members signed their wheels. The Farnhams produced four types of spinning wheels. Their best known wheel is a four-legged flyer wheel with an unusual tensioning device, but they also made a Saxony type flyer wheel, and a double-treadle accelerated flyer wheel. In addition, they produced great wheels.