Our good friend Marcus Leonard of Salina, Kansas, sends us this
correction and information. It is fully self-explanatory.
B. B. Brown, San Landro, California wrote me after reading ‘
A Defense of Advance Thresher Company,’ Meinrad, the Christian
name of the founder of M. Rumely Co., was misspelled in the
article. I checked it, as published in the ALBUM against the
mistake. The original manuscript was checked on the word. The
mistake was in the original manuscript and mine, for which I am
sorry and regret.
Lucius C. Sweet, Alden, Minn., is well informed on threshing
machinery used in the great grain belt, History of machine
companies, events and what pertains to threshing machinery. I sent
him a copy of ‘A Defense of Advance Thresher Company’ and
requested him to check errors and make suggestions. Mr. Sweet wrote
me, Meinrad was misspelled. I checked my copy against his spelling
of Meinrad but did not see the mistake. Much time remained in which
the correction could have been made before the publication of the
article. The mistake, because of what Mr. Sweet had done, was not
excusable.
Meinrad, the Christian name of the founder of M. Rumely Co.,
appears four times in A Defense of Advance Thresher Company’,
which was published in the September-October, 1958 issue of THE
IRON-MEN ALBUM magazine. Meinrad is spelled ‘Meinard’ in
paragraphs (1) and (2) from the bottom of column (3) p. (3), bottom
paragraph of column (3), p. (4) and the part paragraph, which forms
the middle column, p. (6).
Meinrad Rumely has been gone 50 years. I hope good may result
from my mistake, that readers of the ALBUM, who never heard of him,
may know of him, that it may refresh the memories of those, who
knew him and of him and all may remember the name of the grand old
man of the threshing machine industry, Meinrad Rumely.
