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By Myles and Ruth Lamm

Rt. 1, Box 175 Ellenboro, West Virginia 26346

When I got my Pattin engine from the Eureka Oil Company, it was like most that are found today. The cylinder was cracked and the bearings were all worn out. After I welded the crack in the cylinder, I poured the bearings and got it ready to run. I was unable to get it started. I took it to the Wood County Flywheelers Engine Show at Coxe's Field, near Parkersburg, West Virginia, where I knew someone would help me with it. Sam Morgan, from Coolville, Ohio, started it for me and showed me how to do it.

All the work I put into this engine was a labor of love, because my father-in-law, Pearl Dennis, pumped the well this engine was on from 1923 to 1949. The well was located on Brushy Fork in Ritchie County, West Virginia, directly across the road from the house where my wife was born, and the sound of this engine running was one...

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