ickelman Family.

In 1926 Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hetzel Dickelman of Forest, OH, patented a brooder, a heated house (next stage after the incubator) for rearing chicks without the mother birds. Her patent provided a multi-purpose small farm building, specifying a "Frame with adjustable sash for convertible grain bins and brooder houses"¹.

Elizabeth Hetzel Dickelman 3

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Over the years, Lizzie, under the name, L. H. Dickelman, had several patents² attributed to her:

1.  5 May 1917 Metal building plate
2. 15 May 1917 Grain storehouse construction
3. 20 Nov 1917 Elastic crib
4. 13 Apr 1920 Grain storehouse construction
5. 11 May 1920 Grain storage bin
6. 13 Jan 1920 Ventilated grain storehouse
7. 13 Jun 1922 Door and door frame for grain bins
8. 16 Nov 1926 Frame with adjustable and replaceable sash for convertible grain bins and brooder houses
9. 22 May 1928 Brooder house
10. 27 Aug 1946 Corrugated building construction

Dickelman Manfacturing Co.

Workers for Joseph Dickelman met on October 27, 19?9 in front of the Dickelman Mfg. Co. offices. Henry Hagerman was 21 years old on the 1910 census. He looks about that age in the photograph. There is a discrepancy about who is Henry Hagerman and Harry Jenkins. The original names on the reverse show Henry Hagerman as 5^th from the left in the back row. Harry Jenkins is listed as 3^rd and 5^th in the front row, but his name for the 5^th position is scratched out and Henry Hagerman written in place of it. Therefore, Henry Jenkins and Henry Hagerman could be any of three different individuals in the photograph. The assumption is that the original names were correct and have been entered as such. All the other names are assumed accurate. You might compare the facial features of Elmer Hagerman (2^nd from right middle row) with the facial features of both Henry Hagerman and Harry Jenkins plus the individual sitting 5^th from the left front row.⁴

In the front of the photograph above right are Gurney Hune, __, Harry Jenkins, Bill Dice, Henry Hagerman, Reese Craglow, Guy Musgrave, Lloyd Mark, Pat Garver, and Elmer Burk. In the middle are __, Dick Baker, Pat Curtin, Clarence Hune, Pat Chase, Martin Holmes, John Wheatly, Grif Lockard, Elmer Hagerman,and Frank Talbert. And in the back are John Lobert, Cliff Spoon, Henry Harman, Earl Harman, Harry Jenkins, __, __, Elijah Hebler, Todd Goling, __, and Dess George.

Dickelman Manfacturing Co. Work Crew

Joseph L. Dickelman can be seen in this photograph in the doorway with many of his workers around him. Those listed on the photograph include: Front: __, Clarence Hune, Gurney Hune, Pat Case, John Wheatly, __, Martin Holmes, Elmer Hagerman, and Frank Talbert. MIDDLE: Pat Curtin, Todd Goling, and Dick Baker. BACK: __, Joseph L. Dickelman, __, and __. UNIDENTIFIED: Fred Haner, Will Ewing, James Curtin, Charlie Unkard, Clyde Eckelberry, Jake Cooper, Tom Derringer, and John Kachley.

Joseph W. Dickelman died of tuberculosis in El Paso, Texas on December 2, 1903. His body was shipped to Forest for burial in Hueston cemetery.

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 ¹Mothers & Daughter of Invention: Notes for a Revised History of Technology by Autumn Stanley, Rutgers University Press, p. 50.
 ²Obtained via www.asme.org or www.freepatentsonline.com.
 ³The Forest Review (Forest, OH)
 ⁴Damage occurred to the decimal part of the year marked on photograph 3 but we estimate it to be 1909.