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A Brief History of The Nordyke & Marmon CompanyBy Hugh HopkinsChesterton, Indiana 46304 That great wheat flour and corn meal ground at our Association's activities is ground on Wayne Scott's Nordyke and Marmon mill. This mill has 18" French stone buhrs mounted in a heavy cast iron frame. It sold for $172 in the 1900's. The patent date on it is August 1, 1871. Wayne obtained the mill from Warren Bachtel of White Pigeon, Michigan, who got it from a mill in Eau Claire, Michigan. The company was founded in 1851 by Ellis Nordyke, who for many years previously was a prominent millwright engaged in building flour mills, the machine being made by hand in the building in which it was to be used. In 1851 under the name of Nordyke, Ham & Company, the manufacture of milling machinery was first begun in a small shop in Richmond, Indiana. In 1858,... 780 of 3798 characters shown.
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