The Richland County – Shelby Chapter
Of The Ohio Genealogical Society
- - - INDUSTRIES - - - SHELBY PLOW AND FOUNDRY CO.
This is a newcomer, but Shelby is benefited, since it represents employmentto about 15 skilled mechanics, who are for the most part engaged in the manufacture of the Shelby Burch Plow - an implement that is admitted by all who use it, to be the best on the market. The company also make all kinds of iron castings.
They say their business is excellent and improving, and invite farmers
especially to visit their works, located near the Junction, on the oldBeecher Furnace Co.’s premises, and inspect their plows.
- from The Republican Industrial Edition - 1897.
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