Per an advert[Ref.] by Sayre & Owens Company, it's explained that "About eight years ago Goodenow & Owens began furnace manufacturing, from which the Palace King Furnace Company was organized, Mr. J. W. Owens being a prominent owner in the company."
Of note, one can find on page 528 of "Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in By United States Patent Office," a lawsuit...
DECISIONS OF U. S. COURTS IN PATENT CASES.
(United States Circuit Court-Northern District of Now York.)
WHEELER ET AL.Decided August 22, 1887.
40 O. G., 1456.
GOODENOW AND OWENS-HEATING-FURNACES.
Letters Patent No. 245,158, granted August 2, 1887, to Albert J. Goodenow and William J. Owens, for an improvement in heating-furnaces, construed and Held not infringed.
BLATCHFORD, J.:We are investigating Utica's past Inventors of furnace and boiler technologies and their patents. Three Utica inventors, Owens, Goodenow and Whiting are found in the 1881 Patent Report to Congress on page 187...
Owens, Goodenow & Whiting, of Utica N.Y., Listed in 1881 Patent Report to CongressGoodenow & Owens was one of many Utica-based Furnace & Boiler Companies. Their boilers were large and for heavy industrial use. Utica's history of boiler and furnace manufacturing offers a great opportunity for a Better Wynn Hospital Neighborhood.