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I believe the Nourse of Rawson & Nourse was Joel Nourse, son of Joel Nourse. He lived in Grafton (reason number one I suspect him) and he had several patents for manufacturing (reason number two,...

I went with that Antiques article. It's pretty much the only lead I can find anywhere.

However, now I'm digging through newspaper articles and I think I may have found another trove.

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The Rawson of Rawson & Nourse was most likely Dr. Levi Rawson, of Grafton, MA.

That's kind of interesting because he was related to Edward Kirk Rawson, who would much later marry Robert Wade's...