Endicott, New York New York Endicott. The village is named after Henry B. Endicott (1853 – 1920) a founding member of the Endicott Johnson Corpora-tion shoe manufacturing company, in Endicott. Henry was a descendant of John Endecott’s relative Gilbert Endicott, who arrived in Massachusetts from England in 1658. The Endicott Endicott, New York