Threshing Days in the Hubberston Area

By Leo Fitzpatrick
Published on July 1, 1998

10845 East Adams Road, Beaverton, Michigan 48612

George, the oldest of the boys, was running steam engines in the
late 1890s. One of the first men he worked for was Edgar Bennit.
The engine was a 12 HP Advance used to run a Deering corn shredder.
They were set and ready to shred corn on Thanksgiving Day. There
was about four inches of new, wet snow that morning. In those days

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