Just recently our sister company, LockMasters, was profiled in the Lexington Herald Leader and the Jessamine Journal, in an article highlighting the founding Miller family’s legacy and the lock museum in LockMasters’ lobby. The city of Nicholasville, Kentucky, is fairly small, so it may surprise some that we have a nationally-recognized lock museum tucked away. What may also be surprising is exactly how far back the door and lock business goes in the Miller family. Sure, in our About Us section on our site we boast about being four generations deep, but there are several other really interesting details about how we arrived where we are today.

Nearly 85 years ago, after working with banks and with Diebold, John C. Miller founded his own company, SafeMasters. It was this move that lead Harry Miller (John’s son) to develop a manipulation-proof lock that was subsequently bought by Sargent & Greenleaf. The lock sales did so well the Miller Family was able to eventually purchase Sargent & Greenleaf!

A few years later Harry Miller decided to strike out on his own once again. This time, the result was LockMasters. With the art of lock manipulation being fairly specialized, Miller took to educating interested parties and offering classes through LockMasters. Eventually, the business was handed down to his sons Benson and Clay.

In 1993, LockNet was born and handled by Benson, while Clay continued to take care of LockMasters. Since then, LockNet has continued to grow steadily. In 1996 the demand for key systems became so high we began managing them nationwide. Eventually, Benson passed LockNet down to his children, Chad and Katie, and just last year, we enjoyed our most profitable/successful year to date. If the first month of 2015 is any indicator, we won’t be slowing down anytime soon.

While you’ve heard us tout the fact that we’re four generations old, the details of exactly how we came be might have been looked over. So, in the famous words of Paul Harvey, “now you know the rest of the story.”