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The Kewanee Private Utilities Company

By James D. Jones

200 S. Spruce Street, Centerville, Indiana 47330

Collectors and restorers of "old iron" often run into unusual pieces of ancient machinery. Such was our case recently when we found an old Kewanee model 8 water pump, long abandoned as the principal water supply on an area farm. We researched this pump a bit since our only knowledge of the Kewanee Company was from a listing of farm light plants which mentioned their name. We learned that the Kewanee Water Supply Company got its start in 1909 in Kewanee, Illinois and through the inventive genius of Mr. James Jelinek developed the first farm water pump which pumped both air and water under pressure to a storage tank, thus making high pressure water supplies a practical thing.

Kewanee became a highly accepted brand of pump, due to the fact it was built considerably heavier than the usual ru...

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