The Salem News from Salem, Ohio • Page 31

ilk 1 ijlll'lljl iiil rj v. 1 THE SALEM, OHIO, NEWS TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1936 for wa goo wheels a hub boxing machine devised and construct ed by a SaJem pioneer inventor in mm. 1854 hai been the humble foundation of a business that lias remained in Salem for 102 yean the Silver Manufacturing Co. Levi A. Dole was the able man who invented the hub boxing machine in 1854 which became the basis of the industry which grew to manufacture carriage maker, butcher and blacksmith tools, band j.

saws and metal bucket chain el vators in the 1890's to the paper IC shr ckiers and fodder cutters made Mlmmmmammm i A foreman of a Salem carriage shop, A. R. Silver, heard of Dole's invention, became interest A. ed, ar4 in the fall of 1854 the two men Installed a lathe and black smith's forge in a rented shop on High St and went into business for 4 tnemseives. Spoke Making Machine Devised ''iiiafciii' Dole, a creative and imagina Wmmm tive minded man, went on to perfect other patents such as the machine for.

making spokes and the firm grew until the business if lilllilif' was moved into a wing of the Buck eye Company shop in 1856. Dol died in 1866, a year after imy i i yr i John Deming came into the busi Bess. About seven yeara after the firm of SUver and Deming Manufacturing Corp. was incorporated, 1 A. R.

SUver withdrew from the business to organize what is known 'i today as the Silver Manufacturing I Corp. With Silver went his sons, William nA V. Silver The three erected several large i buildings at the foot of South Broadway in 1890 and for years the company specialised in mak i ing root cutters, metal bucket I chain elevators, band saws, self 1 feeding ensilage cutters and blow ers, feed mills, and hand power feed cutters. Original officers of the Silver wmmm i Mfg. were: A.

R. Silver, presi dent; H. M. Silver, vice president; A. O.

Silver, secretary: William tr a if 1 I Silver, treasurer; and W. SU ver, superintendent Employes numbered 125 in 1906, i SiWt Zsi. 1 pffMjyldB0MMWMMv 1 a year after a new machine shop was built; capital stock was in creased from $150,000 to $160,000, 4 and new lilies of manufacture were PAPER SHREDDER IN ACTIOtf.Cordon 0. Calvin," manager, demonstrates how the Silver Mfg. Company's super shredder, with a hopper attachment, slices paper tickets and coupons into bits.

added, including an extra large at hour, to varying sizes of shreds. Since then the company has con tinued to its manufacture of paper shredders for packing material and fodder cutters for use to agriculture, such as cutting up sugar Richard P. Owsley of Youngs town bought the business from the Wick Estate to August, 1955, resigning as vice president and treasurer of the G. M. McKelvey Co.

talfa cutter, Officers to 1906 were E. W. Sil Tef, jcesident; H. M. Silver, vice president; A.

O. Silver, treasurer; and T. E. Webb, secretary, Make Cotters, Shredders E. Mason Wick purchased the 2 property from heirs of Otis Silver PNEUMATIC CYLINDERS? IBS cane.

in Youngstown. the business and Paul Stallsmith is plant superintendent among the 12 employes. The company's customers are international industries, and the firm's products are used all over the world. Inauguration of paper shredder making was begun about 20 years ago. Hie bigger of th two models Today's officers of the company are Mr.

Owsley, president; Marguerite T. Owsley, vice president; and Arthur L. Jones, secretary in 19H0, and Mrs. Wick ran the business when feed cutters and paper shredders were big items on the company's manufacture a gen shreds paper to excess of 2,506 pounds per hour the other shredder will cut up to 1,000 pounds of tickets, coupons or newspapers an treasurer. ii a I Pittsburgh Foundry Started In 1901 4 MM.

i A ness has developed into an enterprise within the confines of Salem. Customers include several ox wt 1 city's industrialists. Grinding pans from ilv to 12 feet to diameter painstakingly mmm4 Vr TiHKiir0ri TiVkiinrii nrvf a. Jusf Tje Blacksmith Had The 4 Machine Co. have found their ways Va At' I to Africa.

Chile and other tar flung places to the world. To Skill And "Know How" These specialties of the industry 1 Um. are used in brick plants, open hearths and coke ovens and are a company favorite among the nu 1 4r, merous grey iron castings manu Hs Products So Is Manufacture factured. Hie company's business today is a far cry from the foundry's humble beginnings to a rented stove factory. It True Today In Modern Industry! Thomas Maxwell was president of the company when It was established in Salem.

on property ad l3 joining the Salem Tool Co. located I on Depot St Maxwell, a Pittsburgh I resident, maintained the company offices in Pittsburgh. The secretary and treasurer of the company in 1906 is today's 76 year old president, William A. 11 Smith of Pittsburgh. Mr.

Smith is is a far cry from the foundry's Plant ef the PHtsbargh Foundry ea Wilson St Salem workings, and makes num erous trips during the year to the foundry, the foundry was forced to Lincoln Machine designs, engineers end builds Slandtrd or Special Hydraulic and Pneumatic Cylinders for heary duty applications oi all types to meet all tire and pressure requirements Bores to 32 inch diameter strokes of 50 fee! and longer. Lincoln supplies those who require large, powerful, rotating and non rotating, hydraulic and air cylinders, heary duty, mill type cylinders. The engineering d9ptrtmnt gives fast practical assistance in design problems and the modern plant builds cylinders quickly and economically! Salem plant look for another business site. Then Woerther, a plant superintendent who followed Addison Bait Ralph Ball became the foundry superintendent Ralph, today's superinten Town Wo Bills In 1852 Totaled $1,885 A statement on the city's flnan An average of 20 men were em came the Salem Board of Trades ployed to the plant to 1906 when offer to give the foundry three and one half acres on Wilson St for dent is the grandson of W. J.

Ball general line of job castings were made. The company was lncor condition was published March 21, business use. George Woerther, a son of George is assistant plant sup 1S52. The Incidental expenses of the 5 porated Feb. 14, 1901.

New Site Obtained Smith remembers the members erintendent of the board who approached with When the Salem Tool decided to town amounted to $23.73, Outstanding claims, 37 to number, for work the acreage offer W. G. Faw take over its property housing the cett ten cent store owner; Ralph Hayes, dry goods dealer; M. Wilson, a jeweler; and Atty. K.

L. 1 and materials for the town hall amounted to $1,885.56. On $67508 of this sum the sown was paying 10 per cent interest On March 11 the treasurer received from New Coboum. Smith points out that the foundry employs the fourth generation member of the Ball family, Howard Ball, a foundry worker. Mr.

Smith can recall the exhibit carefully prepared by the foundry for its display to exhibition hall The frame structure built to .1 1912 was burned to (he ground and to its place was erected the pres Lisbon (Lisbon) When the report was made mere was still on Penn St during the city's Cen 9 ent structure located at 460 Wilson St tennial to 1906. The display featured the cast iron columns and bas to the hands of the county treasur Grey iron castings for mills to 1 it. mmk Pittsburgh, Youngs Sown and the es for a sugar refining factory in Chaimette, Louisiana. The columns er about $400 belonging to Salcra John Street was treasurer of Sa Cleveland district are manufactur .1 and bases were later taken to the lem at that time. ed by the foundry to addition to much die work executed for local Pittsburgh factory for assemb ling and were shipped by barge to Louisiana.

concerns Mullins, Sekely's, United Tool and Die, and SchneiTs. II II II hi' II WAS WEALTHY StAX It was to 1852 that Simeon Jennings moved from Salem to one The foundry here still follows A line of dies for Fisher Body 'My ty i' ii ii in 1 1 II ill 1 11 also are manufacture by the com mat procedure today. A3 castings of his farms near Cleveland. At are sent to Pittsburgh (and other pany which employs 36 men. 4f aearby foundries, of course) W.

J. Ball was the rst plant ja yxr that time Mr. Jennings was one of the richest men to eastern Ohio. where machine work shapes them He was the son of Levi Jennings into parts. I who came to Columbiana County Present officers of the foundry JZO West second Mrccr, aaiem, wmo to 1808, At the time of his death.

4 are Smith, president; William A. superintendent and was hired to 1902. The elder Ball's two sons, Addison and Howard, joined the foundry as employes toon after their father. Addison later became manager of the foundry. After the death of George J.

4SSjsfPHttSSS' a Oct 30. 1865. he was reputed to Smith vice president; Tho Wit mas B. Smith, and left an estate of ver 1 William A. Smith i Presidejit, Pittsburgh foundry Kenneth Smim, secxetary.

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