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Decorative drawing: a nineteenth-century shop front seen close. Not a photograph of this place.

Wellington Bending Works

A works in Lorain County, Ohio, named in 2 atlases between 1899 and 1904.

The line reading Wellington Bending Works in the 1899 atlas index
The index line as printed in the 1899 atlas, read from the scanned sheet.

Where it appears

AtlasRead as Sheet
1899Wellington Bending Worksthe scanned index
1904Wellington Bending Worksthe scanned index

Named in the 1879 county history

The history of Lorain County was published 20 years before the first of these atlases, and it names this establishment.

Edwin C. Branson was born at Altoona, Pennsylvania, and learned the carpenter's trade at Defiance, Ohio, where he was married. Subsequently going to Wellington, he formed a partnership with G. H. Palmer and founded the Wellington Bending Works. This existed until the plant was merged into what is known as the Pioneer Pole & Shaft Co. After retiring from the firm he was elected county treasurer of Lorain County two terms of two years each; later was appointed tax commissioner of Lorain County by Governor Cox, which expired January 1, 1916. Mr. Branson is president of the Chronicle Printing Company of Elyria, although he and Mrs. Branson make their home at Wellington.

Read the chapter on Lorain City.

Named in the same survey

15 establishments

The surveyors walked Lorain County once and wrote down what they found. These are the other establishments from the same atlas, each with the line it was read from.

Index lineEstablishment TradeAtlas
The index line reading American Hotel in the 1899 atlasAmerican Hotelhotel1899
The index line reading Methodist Episcopal Church in the 1899 atlasEpiscopal Churchchurch1899
The index line reading Sunday School in the 1899 atlasSunday Schoolschool1899
The index line reading First Baptist Church in the 1904 atlasBaptist Churchchurch1904
The index line reading Church of Christ Scientist in the 1904 atlasChurch of Christ Scientistchurch1904
The index line reading Crisp & Henson, Carriage Shop in the 1904 atlasCrisp & Henson, Carriage Shopcarriage shop1904
The index line reading Democrat Printing in the 1904 atlasDemocrat Printingprinting1904
The index line reading Diseiples' Church in the 1904 atlasDiseiples' Churchchurch1904
The index line reading Bast Side School in the 1904 atlasEast Side Schoolsschool1904
The index line reading Congregational Church in the 1904 atlasFirst Congregational Churchchurch1904
The index line reading High School in the 1904 atlasHigh schoolschool1904
The index line reading Machine Co in the 1904 atlasMachine Comachine shop1904
The index line reading Milling Co in the 1904 atlasMilling Co's Flour Millflour mill1904
The index line reading Opera House in the 1904 atlasOpera Houseopera house1904
The index line reading Topliff& Ely Co.,Carriage Hard ware in the 1904 atlasTopliff & Ely Co., Carriage Hardwarecarriage shop1904

Other works in the atlases

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Every other establishment of the same trade the surveyors named in Lorain County, with the years each one appears.

Provenance

Read by machine from the printed index of the Sanborn fire insurance atlases of Lorain County, Ohio, held by the Library of Congress. Sanborn atlases published before 1930 are in the public domain. Only names that at least three of four independent readings agreed on are published, and no spelling has been corrected: what appears here is what the recogniser returned from the ink.