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Appleton Manufacturing Company

It all began with the purchase of an Appleton Tractor catalog. This was a tractor we could not recall seeing anywhere, and thus we set about to find out what our subscribers might know about the Appleton tractor. What resulted was very little about the tractor, but a significant amount on the company and the Appleton engine.

Thanks to Glenn McMurray, a Batavia, Illinois, resident, we received a copy of a section of a 1990 book by Thomas Allen Mair, entitled Batavia Revisited. Here is a synopsis of the company history extracted from that book:

"The company was originally formed in Appleton, Wisconsin, February 5, 1872, and made farm equipment and related products such as wood and steel windmills named after their developer as 'Goodhue Windmills,' corn shelters, feed cutters, seeders, wood saws, galvanized steel water tanks, feed grinding mills, manure spreaders, and at one time, even a gasolin...

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