This Russell engine is a 16 HP, serial #15757 owned by C. E.
Christian, Jr. of Medway, Ohio. The engine was displayed at the
first annual Mad River Steam & Gas Show in Urbana, Ohio in July
of 1980, where Sam Myers of Brookville took this photo. Another
Brookville man, Steve Denlinger, sent us the picture
This is a flour mill my father, Moses Hunter, and uncle Westly
standing. During World War I they ran it night and day making flour
for the government.
Born in 1861 Dad learned the milling trades very young working
with his father who was a miller running water mills in southern
Ohio. He got into saw milling and had threshing rigs. He could
hammer a saw, dress a stone burr, make good flour, and make any old
type machinery operate at top performance.
This is an incident that happened November 29, 1900 in Jefferson
Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Ezrial Zerbe, the owner, was
moving the township stone crusher to a gravel pit past the grist
mill and missed the driveway and went down the bank in the tail
race of the mill. No one was hurt. The engine is a Peerless Class R
12 HP low steam dome.
Pictured is a Garr-Scott engine that was in our community for 30
years. It was a 13 horse engine that Garr-Scott & Company of
Richmond, Indiana made to send to the St. Louis Exposition in 1904.
They made it special with nickel plate cylinder, whistle pop valve
and hub caps. Mr. Sanford Macy bought this engine and threshed and
ran a saw mill for 30 years. His son, Henry Macy, still lives in
Fountain City and we enjoy talking about the old times very
much.
Pictures were taken near Mora Springs, Iowa in the late 1890s.
As near as I can tell the steam engine is a 10 HP Nichols &
Shepard made in 1890 as there is a picture in Jack Norbeck’s
book on steam engines that looks like it. The man on the steam
engine is G. W. Hart, brother of Charles Hart, the inventor of the
Hart Parr tractor.
The pictures were taken near Mora Springs, Iowa in the late
1890s. As near as I can tell the steam engine is a 10 HP Nichols
& Shepard made in 1890 as there is a picture in Jack
Norbeck’s book on steam engines that looks like it. The man on
the steam engine is G. W. Hart, brother of Charles Hart, the
inventor of the Hart Parr tractor. When they got to building gas
tractors they used his brother’s farm for an experimental farm,
so I don’t imagine he used this steam engine much after the
turn of the century.
