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The Galion Iron Works Company of Galion, Ohio, was founded by David Charles Boyd and his three brothers in 1907.In its early years, the Galion produced a wide range of road-building and other construction equipment, such as drag scrapers, plows, wagons, stone unloaders, rock crushers, and a variety of other "experimental machines".
World War II poster promoting Cooper-Bessemer engines. Cooper-Bessemer was a brand of industrial engines and compressors manufactured in Mount Vernon, Ohio.The Cooper-Bessemer Corporation was formed when the C. & G. Cooper Company (founded in 1833) and the Bessemer Gas Engine Company (founded in 1899) merged in 1929.
In 1896, Anton Herkenhoff and Joseph Dues founded the Dues and Herkenhoff Machine Works, a blacksmith shop. Soon, Dues sold his share of the business, and Herkenhoff renamed the enterprise The Minster Machine Company. [5] [6] Oil drilling in the western Ohio area helped the company grow during its early years.
Mount Vernon is a city in and the county seat of Knox County, Ohio, United States, along the Kokosing River. [4] It is located 40 miles (64 km) northeast of Columbus . The population was 16,956 at the 2020 census .
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Township hall at Vernon Center Location of Vernon Township in Trumbull County Coordinates: 41°23′14″N 80°34′6″W / 41.38722°N 80.56833°W / 41.38722; -80
To depict the foundry industry, he visited the Modern Foundry to get ideas and set a scene for one of the murals, called Foundry and Machine Shop Products. In this mural, a man (modeled by Joseph Schwope, 1898–1980) is skimming a ladle of iron, while an iron pourer (modeled by Bill Rengering, 1901–1985) pours a mold.
Statewide, other Vernon Townships are located in Clinton, Crawford, and Trumbull counties. Vernon Township was organized in 1818. [4] The township derives its name from Mount Vernon, the estate of George Washington. [5] In 1833, Vernon Township contained a blast steam furnace for melting ore, one gristmill and one saw mill, three stores, and a ...