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Winfield Foundry & Machine Shop
It appears that two men by the name of Clarke and Dysert started the Winfield foundry and machine shop (combined). This was a hard matter to unravel. At one point Winfield had a foundry and also a machine shop. They were located in different areas of Winfield.
Note: Right from the start the Winfield Courier goofed up. They showed “Clark” instead of “Clarke.” They showed “Dysart” instead of “Dysert.”
I have changed “Clark” to “Clarke.”
I have changed “Dysart” to “Dysert” in every instance also.
WHAT A MESS!
Gather that these two gentlemen were the answer to Winfield’s prayers for a foundry.
Courier kept making mistakes. I found they had “McGill” for “Magill.” I corrected this. Later they had “Van Fleet” for “Van Vleet.” I corrected this.
Samuel Clarke later moved to Arkansas City. Items that concern Clarke after he moved to Arkansas City are found at the very end of this convoluted story.
RECAP OF EVENTS AS FAR AS I CAN RECONSTRUCT THEM.
February 1878: Samuel Clarke and partner, Dysert, put in a building. [Machine shop.]
March 1879: Business called “Southwestern Machine Works.” [Clarke & Dysert, owners.]
December 1879: A 30 x 60 ft. addition added to shops, used as foundry.
May 1880: Clarke & Dysert dissolve partnership. Dysert takes over business. Clarke remains to superintend machine shops.
June 1880: Dysert, Southwestern Machine Works, skips. Dysert had leased shop to J. B. Magill.
July 1880: John Witherspoon purchases Fendenheim interest in “Southwestern Foundry and Machine Shops,” as it is then called. John Witherspoon sells his interest to Dan Mater.
February 1881: Clarke sues Magill for possession of foundry. He loses. Magill and Mater take over Foundry.
November 1881: Clarke takes control again of Machine Department of “South-west Machine Works.”
January 1882: It appears that James Jordan is now owner of the building containing the machine shop and foundry.
January 1882: Samuel Clarke moves machine works to first building east of Santa Fe depot. He calls his business “Winfield Machine Works.”
April 1882: Magill calls his business “South Western Machine Shop” and sometimes it is referred to as “Winfield foundry.”
October 1882: Samuel Clarke takes on a partner, G. W. Abbott. Business called “Winfield Machine Works.” Business located in first building east of Santa Fe depot.
[Note: Paper never states when this business folded. At the very end a clue is given to us when it is found out that Samuel Clarke moves to Arkansas City. He is first mentioned in June 1883.]
March 1884: J. P. Baden rents old foundry on North Main. [Gather this was the building owned by James Jordan.]
September 1884: First mention of Warner Bros. shop in old Foundry Building. [This would be the building owned by James Jordan.]
October 1884: Warner Bros. start planing mill in old Foundry Building, North Main. [This would be the building owned by James Jordan.]
February 1885: Announcement. J. M. Stayman and James Ostrander to start foundry and machine shops in stone building on North Main. [James Jordan building mentioned.]
April 1885: Ostrander & Stayman put shops in the new Bryan building instead of Jordan building. Bryan building location: 614 Main Street (almost opposite Brettun House).
August 1885: Warner & Warner changes into Warner & McIntyre. Shop: Corner of 6th and Main. [Gather this was the James Jordan building.]
December 1885: Winfield Machine Shops. J. M. Stayman, proprietor. (Ostrander no longer mentioned as a partner.) Gather this was in the Bryan building.
February 1886: Company C of the Kansas National Guards and Fire Department move out of Bryan building into the old foundry building on North Main. [James Jordan building.] The fire department was contemplating moving into the new city building when completed.
February 1886: P. G. Van Vleet (of Van Vleet & Sage) rents Bryan stone building on North Main and starts wholesale agricultural implement business.
March 1886: Jennings and Crippen putting up 20 by 76 foot building on North Main to be occupied by Stayman as a machine shop.
March 1886: Van Vleet & Sage move city scales into front of room now occupied by Stayman’s machine shop.
April 1886: Van Vleet & Sage, weighmasters, located at 614 Main Street, nearly opposite Brettun House. [This would be the Bryan building.]
FROM THE NEWSPAPERS.
Winfield Courier, February 7, 1878.
Clarke & Dysert is the name of the firm mentioned in another place who are about to build a machine shop and foundry in this city. They have purchased four lots on Main street, north of the Anderson house, and will build a two story stone building forty feet square.
Winfield Courier, February 7, 1878.
Mr. Samuel Clarke, of Boswell, Boston County, Indiana, has lately visited our city and made arrangements to remove to this place, build a first-class machine shop and foundry, and open a business in that line. Mr. Clarke is an experienced machinist, having successfully pursued that business for twenty-one years. This will be one of the most important business acquisitions that our city and county have received.
Winfield Courier, February 14, 1878.
Stewart & Simpson have the contract for putting up the machine shop for Clarke & Dysert.
Winfield Courier, October 3, 1878.
Clarke & Dysert are putting the machinery into their foundry and machine shop building, and it will be in operation in a reasonable time. It will be of great value and convenience to the people of this county.
[LIST OF NEW BUILDINGS ERECTED SINCE 1/1/1878.]
Winfield Courier, Thursday, January 2, 1879.
The following is a list of new buildings erected in the city of Winfield since January 1, 1878, with the name of owner and cost of building.
Clarke & Dysert, machines p s ne: $1,800.00.
Winfield Courier, March 13, 1879.
We regret to learn of the death of Mrs. Clarke, wife of Samuel Clarke, of the Southwestern Machine Works. Mrs. Clarke, although having resided in Winfield but a short time, had won the respect and esteem of the entire community.
[ADS.]
Winfield Courier, March 13, 1879.
SOUTHWESTERN MACHINE WORKS. CLARKE & DYSERT, Props.
Samuel Clarke, WINFIELD - KANSAS MANUFACTURER. ENGINES, BOILERS, AND MILL MACHINERY. MACHINE BLACKSMITHING. HARVESTING MACHINERY. [NO ADDRESS GIVEN.]
[WINFIELD BUSINESS.]
Winfield Courier, March 27, 1879.
The following is a list of the principal business firms of Winfield.
FOUNDRY.
Clarke & Dysert.
Addition (30 by 60) to be used as a foundry being arranged...
July 31, 1879 - Mr. Dysert, of the Southwestern machine works, returned from Indiana last week, bringing with him an experienced boiler maker. This will enable the works to turn out all kinds of boilers of their own make.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1879.
Messrs. Clarke & Dysert, of the Southwestern Machine Works, are making arrangements to build an addition to their shops, which will be used as a foundry. It is to be 30 x 60.
Winfield Courier, December 11, 1879.
Clarke & Dysert have the foundry addition to their machine shops almost finished, and will be ready to do casting in about two weeks. The outer part of the furnace is already up. It is intended to hold 2,500 pounds of molten metal. They have orders ahead for several thousand pounds of castings.
Winfield Courier, January 1, 1880.
The moulder for the foundry of Clarke & Dysert has arrived, and the foundry will soon be in operation.
[CLARKE & DYSERT: SOUTHWESTERN MACHINE SHOPS.]
Winfield Courier, January 29, 1880.
By special invitation we dropped into the Southwestern Machine shops last Thursday afternoon. It was the time set apart for casting in the new foundry, and Mr. Clarke concluded to call in the newspaper men to see the thing go off. About four o’clock the “blast” was turned on, and in less than half an hour the molten iron began to trickle down into the great iron ladle prepared to receive it, while men with metal dippers carried the sputtering, sizzling mass around and poured it into little round holes made in boxes of mud. A large number of people were present and seemed to take great interest in the process of casting iron. Clarke & Dysert have expended considerable money in putting in this foundry, mostly upon a venture, as they did not know whether they would be able to get enough work to pay expenses. The experiment has so far proved a success. They have orders for all the work they can do for some time, and we have no doubt that when people learn that they can get their repairs done at home as well as abroad, the Southwestern will be overrun with work.
Winfield Courier, March 25, 1880.
Clarke & Dysert have put in a bid against the Atchison foundry for furnishing the columns, etc., for the new four-story union building now being erected at Wichita. They propose to furnish better work at the same price than any foundry in the state, and they can do it.
[THE MACHINE WORKS: SOUTHWESTERN FOUNDRY & MACHINE SHOPS.]
Winfield Courier, March 25, 1880.
This institution is becoming the special pride of our citizens. Messrs. Clarke & Dysert have gone on quietly, with an abiding faith in the town and country, putting in new appliances and machinery, until the excellence of their work begins to bring our citizens to a realization of the fact that Winfield can successfully compete with Leavenworth, Atchison, or Kansas City, in anything made of iron. The columns and plates just finished for the Morehouse-Baird building are far ahead of anything yet furnished here. The columns are firm, solid, of elegant design, and weigh 550 pounds each. The plates for the doorsills bear the imprint of the foundry, and are lettered “W. S. M.” and “Baird Bros., 1880.” After the contract for the columns had been let to Clarke & Dysert, parties representing the Atchison foundry scoffed at the idea of our foundry being able to complete the job, and asserted that “it took them six months to turn out their first columns.”
This somewhat shook the faith of the architects, and the fear of being delayed troubled them greatly. But Clarke & Dysert knew what they were doing, and the discouraging words only made them redouble their efforts to turn out work that would prove what they themselves knew, that they could compete with any foundry in the country both in quality and cheapness. The result has fully demonstrated their ability to do this; and where our citizens have heretofore doubted, they are now thoroughly convinced that the Southwestern Foundry and Machine Shops are no myth. We sincerely hope that they will lend all the help possible, in the way of work toward building up and sustaining this institution, thereby encouraging other manufacturing interests to center here.
March 20, 1880 - The firm of Clarke & Dysert has been dissolved and Mr. Dysert assumes the responsibility of the business. Mr. Clarke will remain, however, and superintend the machine shops. This firm has from a small beginning built up a flourishing business, and one that is a credit to the town.
Winfield Courier, April 8, 1880.
The statement in regard to our foundry, which appeared in the COURIER some weeks ago, having the effect of sending in orders from all our neighboring towns, and Clarke & Dysert are completely overrun with business. They will be compelled ere long to make additions to their foundry building.
Winfield Courier, May 27, 1880.
The firm of Clarke & Dysert has been dissolved and Mr. Dysert assumes the responsibility of the business. Mr. Clarke will remain, however, and superintend the machine shops. This firm has from a small beginning built up a flourishing business, and one that is a credit to the town.
Winfield Courier, June 17, 1880.
Mr. Dysert, proprietor of the Southwestern Machine Works, unceremoniously skipped out last Sunday, leaving his property here mortgaged heavily, and many of his creditors unsecured. He had leased the shop to Mr. Magill, a former employee, with the provision that the rent be applied toward paying off the indebtedness of the concern.
John Witherspoon purchases Fendenheim’s interest??? The name “Fendenheim” was never mentioned before the next entry! Have no idea who he was!
Winfield Courier, July 29, 1880.
Mr. John Witherspoon has purchased Mr. Fendenheim’s interest in the Southwestern Foundry and Machine Shops. John is a good businessman, and will make the concern pay. Mr. Magill will still be one of the firm.
Winfield Courier, August 19, 1880.
Read’s Bank is now guarded by a large black iron fence, the work of the foundry.
Now we find that “John Witherspoon” sold his interest to Dan Mater and that Witherspoon has rented the American House...???
Winfield Courier, October 28, 1880.
Mr. John Witherspoon has sold his interest in the machine shops to Dan Mater, and has rented the American House. He will soon have the house in first class running order.
[COWLEY COUNTY DISTRICT COURT.]
Winfield Courier, November 25, 1880.
CIVIL DOCKET. FIFTH DAY.
Jesse Wilmot vs. Clarke & Dysert.
Winfield Courier, January 13, 1881.
Mr. Clarke is taking steps to oust J. B. Magill from the foundry and take possession himself. He claims rights under Dysert, and that Magill has violated the terms of his lease.
Winfield Courier, January 20, 1881.
Bliss & Wood, proprietors of the City mills, though they have one of the best water powers in the state, have got tired of depending upon the Walnut river for their power, and have now let the contract to put in a hundred horse power engine and boilers. The engine house will be of brick, 24 x 60 feet, metal roof, and with a brick stack fifty feet high above the base. It will be so arranged that a part of the power can be carried across the river when a woolen mill is erected. The engine will be from the celebrated Bass [? Bess ? Buss ?] machine works at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The contract price for this work is six thousand dollars, and it will commence at once and be completed, if possible, by March first. Samuel Clarke, the original owner of the Southwestern machine shops, is the contractor, and left Tuesday for Fort Wayne. We are glad this gentleman secured this contract, for he is an honest man and a splendid mechanic.
Winfield Courier, February 3, 1881.
The suit between Clarke and Magill for the possession of the foundry ended after three day’s struggle. The jury disagreed and the case will have to be tried over.
Magill & Mater win lawsuit and get possession of the foundry...
Winfield Courier, March 3, 1881.
The lawsuit for the possession of the Foundry has at last been decided in favor of Magill & Mater. The matter was referred to a referee and satisfactorily settled by him.
Winfield Courier, November 17, 1881.
Birth. Mr. Samuel Clarke has a little daughter at his house this week. It is a bright little girl and Mr. Clarke is correspondingly happy.
Cowley County Courant, November 24, 1881.
SOUTH-WEST MACHINE WORKS. SAMUEL CLARKE, PROPRIETOR -AND- MECHANICAL ENGINEER. Having again assumed control of the machine department of the above Works, I will give it my personal supervision, and will run it as a general Machine Works. Will build and repair ENGINES, BOILERS, ETC., And guarantee satisfaction. Will buy and sell Second-hand Machinery on commission.
It appears that the foundry and machine shop building is for rent...
Winfield Courier, January 5, 1882.
To Rent. A foundry and machine shop. Call on or address James Jordan, Winfield, Kansas.
Samuel Clarke moves his machine works to first building east of Santa Fe Depot...
Cowley County Courant, January 5, 1882.
Mr. S. Clarke has removed his machine works from the South Western Foundry to the first building east of the Santa Fe depot, where he will be pleased to meet all his old customers. His new business place will be known as the Winfield Machine Works. We trust Mr. Clarke will prosper and make money in his new location, as he surely deserves.
Cowley County Courant, January 12, 1882.
Sam Clarke, proprietor of the Winfield Machine Works, is now in full blast, and ready for all kinds of machine work. With improved machinery and the best machinists to be found, he is confident he can give entire satisfaction to all who may need his services. To those in need of castings of any character, go and see him.
Cowley County Courant, February 2, 1882.
Samuel Clarke of the Winfield Machine Works has secured the contract for furnishing all the shafting, bearing, boxes, and gudgeons, in fact, a complete outfit for W. H. Spears’ new mill at Arkansas City, and has already sent orders east for the material for the same, and in his new location is now prepared to take orders for a complete outfit for Mills including engines, boilers, etc. At the present time he has work on hand to the amount of about $1,500 and his intention is to put the profits on his work in new machinery, tools, etc., and hopes to persevere until he makes his works one of the finest, complete establishments in the west.
Cowley County Courant, February 16, 1882.
Mr. Sam Clarke, of the Winfield Machine Works, has just finished and turned out for Mr. O’Brien of this office, recently of the United States, one of the finest and most accurate pieces of mechanism we have seen anywhere. They are known among the craft as “slug moulds,” for the moulding of slugs, a necessary appendage to every well regulated print shop. They were constructed after a new pattern of Mr. O’Brien’s. Mr. Clarke in carrying out Mr. O’Brien’s idea used the very finest of steel and called into play his wonderful skill as a worker in iron. The result is one of the most accurate and best finished moulds extant. Mr. O’Brien will immediately work up two hundred pounds of metal for this office. Printers having old metal or cuts which they would like to convert into slugs, can obtain all information they may desire in regard to it by addressing Mr. O’Brien at the COURANT office.
NOTE: THROUGHOUT...THE NAME USED WAS O’BREIN...I CHANGED IT TO O’BRIEN...COULD O’BREIN BE CORRECT??? CAN’T BELIEVE IT!
Cowley County Courant, March 16, 1882.
WINFIELD MACHINE WORKS.
SAMUEL CLARKE, PROPRIETOR, AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER.
SHOPS NEAR A., T. & S. F. R. R., WINFIELD.
Winfield Courier, March 23, 1882.
AD. SOUTHWEST MACHINE WORKS, SAMUEL CLARK, Proprietor and Mechanical Engineer. Having again assumed control of the machine department of the above works, I will give it my personal supervision, and will run it as a general Machine Works. Will build and repair ENGINES, BOILERS, ETC., And guarantee satisfaction. Will buy and sell Second-hand Machinery on Commission. Shops near A. T. & S. F. R. R., Winfield.
Cowley County Courant, March 30, 1882.
Sam Clarke, our boss machinist, is down at Arkansas City doing a big job of work for one of the mills there. Clarke is a good one, and it is a hard matter to keep him at home.
J. B. Magill: Winfield foundry...
Cowley County Courant, April 6, 1882.
J. B. Magill, of the Winfield foundry, is putting up a fine iron front for the new McLaughlin building at Arkansas City.
Cowley County Courant, June 22, 1882.
Some time ago our enterprising fellow citizen, J. B. Magill, of the South Western Machine Shop, of this city, put in the iron front in McLaughlin’s new building at Arkansas City. Mr. Magill has just contracted to put in the iron front for A. A. Newman’s new brick in that city. Evidently friend Magill’s work gives entire satisfaction to our Arkansas City friends.
Cowley County Courant, June 29, 1882.
Headquarters 1st Reg., Cowley County Vets. Special order No. 2. H. L. Wells is hereby reappointed Adjutant to rank as Captain. Rev. P. F. Jones Chaplain, to rank as Captain, 1st Lieut. James Kelly as Quartermaster, J. B. Magill, reappointed Sergeant Major and will be respected accordingly. By order, H. L. Wells, Adjt. C. E. Steuven Col. Commanding.
Winfield Courier, August 17, 1882.
RECAP OF ARTICLE POINTING OUT IMPROVEMENTS IN WINFIELD.
In the way of manufacturing enterprises, the season presents very favorable results. Mr. Samuel Clarke has started, near the Santa Fe depot, his Winfield Machine Shop, which is doing good work and is making money.
Winfield Courier, October 12, 1882.
We are under many obligations to Mr. Magill for a handsome “cuspadore” manufactured at his foundry. It is a beauty and about the best we have seen.
Winfield Courier, October 12, 1882.
Winfield Machine Works.
Mr. Abbott, the new member of the firm, is a practical Millwright and Draughtsman from Avon, Illinois. He came to Kansas in June, 1881, with Mr. Ayres, to superintend the building of his new mill on the canal at Arkansas City, after which he superintended putting in the machinery of Mr. W. H. Speers’s new mill at the same place, and is well qualified to build any mill from the water wheel or engine to the flour packer.
Mr. S. Clarke has been with us since September, 1878, and is a machinist, engineer, etc.
October 18, 1882 - Traveler - Geo. W. Abbott has purchased a half interest in the Winfield Machine works. He is a mill wright, and is the gentleman who built Ayres' Mill at Arkansas City. Courier.
Winfield Courier, October 19, 1882.
S. CLARKE, Machinist and Engineer.
G. W. ABBOTT, Millwright and Draughtsman.
WINFIELD MACHINE WORKS
CLARKE & ABBOTT, Proprietors,
MANUFACTURE ENGINES, BOILERS, AND MILL MACHINERY.
Will also furnish estimates, specifications, and drawings for all kinds of machinery for Flouring Mills, Saw Mills, and contract for building the same.
Manufacturers’ Agents for all kinds of Mill Machinery and Furnishings, Steam, Water, and Gas Fittings.
Will send men to a distance to erect or repair ENGINES, BOILERS, ETC., at reasonable rates. Repairing Engines, Boilers, etc., a specialty.
Shops near Santa Fe Depot, Winfield, Kansas.
[OLD SOLDIERS: ROLL OF HONOR.]
Winfield Courier, November 22, 1883.
Abbott, Geo. W., Winfield, wd head, $4.00.
Winfield Courier, February 7, 1884.
Mr. Frank Oliver has leased lots on north Main Street just south of the foundry, and will put in a large stock of lumber at once.
J. P. Baden has rented the old foundry on North Main...
Winfield Courier, March 20, 1884.
A Big Shipping Business.
J. P. Baden’s fame as a produce dealer has reached New York City and is spreading to the uttermost parts of the earth. A man came direct from New York City last week and bought of him three carloads of eggs, 40,500 dozen, and bargained for more. Another carload goes today. Baden has sold $13,500 worth of eggs alone in the last two weeks. He has rented, in addition to his other buildings, the old foundry on North Main, and has thirty men constantly employed packing eggs. He has made a market in Winfield for produce second to none in the west. He gets produce from nearly every county in Kansas and ships it all over the United States. He will put his immense business under one roof as soon as the additions to the McDougal Building are finished.
Warner Bros. Shop in Old Foundry Building...
Winfield Courier, September 11, 1884.
The card of Messrs. Frazier & Harvey, plain or ornamental plasterers, appear in this issue. They are first-class workmen. They are at present doing up Mr. Rogers’ new residence on east Ninth Avenue.
PLASTERING. The undersigned have formed a co-partnership in the plastering business, and will take contracts for work, plain or ornamental, to be done promptly and in first-class manner. Estimates furnished on short notice. Leave orders at Warner Bros. shop in old Foundry Building. CHAS. FRAZIER, A. R. HARVEY.
Old Foundry Building...
Winfield Courier, October 2, 1884.
W. T. Warner, of Warner Bros., contractors, who have recently located among us, left Saturday for St. Louis, to purchase machinery for their planing mill. He will also go on to Indiana for his family.
Winfield Courier, October 16, 1884.
Warner Brothers have received their machinery and are now ready to fill orders for scroll or bracket work on store fronts, odd sizes of doors and windows, and all kinds of trimming work. Doors and Window frames complete or in Knock-down, Old Foundry building, North Main street.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
Warner Bros. have shown us a very neat design turned out on a lathe in five minutes from Cowley County stone. It shows the ease and success with which our stone can be worked up in any shape under the sun.
Winfield Courier, November 6, 1884.
The new third-ward school building is going up with a rush. Messrs. Warner Bros., the contractors, have some twenty men now at work and expect to finish the building by January first. It is large and convenient and will certainly “fill a long felt want.” Its room will relieve the over-crowded departments of schools and greatly enhance educational opportunities.
Winfield Courier, November 20, 1884.
Beautify Your Homes! WARNER BROS. are now running in first-class style their PLANING MILL. They make a specialty of putting up VERANDAS with the latest and most attractive designs. Their machinery is complete for turning out all classes of turned work, Scroll Work, Brackets, Window and Door Frames, Circle Moulding, and everything in fancy carpentry. Estimates furnished on all classes of buildings at short notice, and contracts taken for the same.
[Note: Paper had “Plaining Mill.” I have corrected to “Planing Mill.]
Warner Bros. Planing Mill.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, January 1, 1885.
Messrs. Warner Bros. have recently located here with a first-class planing mill and are getting a good business. They are extensive contractors. Their mill has complete machinery and turns out all kinds of bracket and scroll work and everything in fancy carpentry.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, January 8, 1885.
WARNER BROTHERS.
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
Will furnish estimates and do all work complete on short notice.
Will be found for the present at the Olds House.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, January 8, 1885.
Beautify Your Homes!
WARNER BROS.
Are now running in first-class style their
PLANING MILL.
They make a specialty of putting up
VERANDAS
with the latest and most attractive designs. Their machinery is complete for turning out all classes of turned work, Scroll Work, Brackets, Window and Door Frames, Circle Moulding, and everything in fancy carpentry. Estimates furnished on all classes of buildings at short notice, and contracts taken for the same.
Excerpt from a lengthy article...
THE SECOND MEETING OF THE WINFIELD ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION.
Machine Shops And Foundry.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, February 26, 1885.
J. E. Conklin introduced, with commendatory remarks, his old friend, J. M. Stayman, of Champaign City, Illinois, who is an experienced machinist and a man of ability and capital. Mr. Stayman stated that he was here on a prospecting tour and after being shown around the city and county by Mr. Conklin, had determined to locate with a foundry and machine shops in the stone building on north Main. James Ostrander, a machinist of equal experience will accompany him from the East soon and together they will establish this enterprise. Mr. Conklin gives these men the highest recommendation and Winfield will no doubt have reason to congratulate herself on their advent.
James Jordan was evidently the owner of the old foundry in Winfield...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 12, 1885.
Messrs. James Ostrander and John Stayman arrived last week from Champaign City, Illinois, and will open a foundry and machine shop in the Jordan building on north Main street as soon as the machinery can be put in.
Ostrander & Stayman putting shops in Bryan building...
OUR NEW MACHINE SHOPS.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 9, 1885.
The new shops of Messrs. Ostrander & Stayman in the Bryan building on north main street were surrounded with a very businesslike air this morning. Eight or ten men were busy at work putting the huge machinery in place and getting the bells and pulleys adjusted. They will be ready for business Thursday, and can turn out any kind of machine work from a locomotive down. The proprietors are thorough businessmen, and are putting an institution in our midst that will be one of much value to our people. They are arranging to build a foundry in connection with the shops. Verily, Winfield is booming.
Warner...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 16, 1885.
WEDNESDAY.
G. E. Bradt went to Wichita this afternoon in the interest of the Warner Manufacturing Company, to sell their lawn seats and step ladders.
Next item indicates Bryan building was at corner of 7th & Main opposite Brettun...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 23, 1885.
OSTRANDER & STAYMAN,
ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS
-MANUFACTURE-
ENGINES AND BOILERS
Jail and Sheet Metal, Mill and Elevator Work.
And do a General Repairing Business of
FARM MACHINERY
such as Engines, Separators and Mowers, Reapers, Etc.
MAKE DRAWINGS, SPECIFICATIONS and Patent Office MODELS.
Shop equipped with New and Improved Machinery and Tools.
First-class Work guaranteed at Reasonable Prices.
Within the next 30 days will be prepared to do all kinds of
CASTING IN IRON and BRASS.
Office and Works, Opposite Brettun House.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 7, 1885.
F. A. Wilkins, from Illinois, is working for Ostrander & Stayman. He is a first-class workman.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, May 28, 1885.
Ostrander & Stayman, machinists, are getting their shop in fine working order. The machinery is of the latest improvement. They have just completed an upright eight-horsepower engine, 250 revolutions a minute. It is a daisy and shows this firm’s ability to turn out first-class work. This engine is for their own use. They are getting all the work they can do.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 18, 1885.
Ostrander & Stayman, proprietors of foundry, have just received an order from Meeks & Co., of Wichita, for a stone saw, derrick, and car. And yet Wichita has several foundries.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, June 18, 1885.
Farmers, bring in your reapers and mowers and have them repaired and made good as new. Ostrander & Stayman, Winfield Foundry, N. Main st.
FARMERS, THRESHING MACHINE MEN HOLD.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, July 2, 1885.
Do you know that we have the largest and best stock of brass goods, pipe fittings, hemp and rubber packing, machine and cylinder oils, waste, and, in fact all kinds of supplies this side of Kansas City. Call and see us and get anything you may want at low prices.
Ostrander & Stayman, Foundry and Machine Shop, N. Main st.
Warner...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 6, 1885.
We visited today one of the, at first, unnoticed institutions of Winfield, but which, on examination, becomes one of the important ones. We speak of the planing mill of the Warner Bros. Here, in one half day, work can be done by the applicable machinery that would take the work of two carpenters a week to accomplish by hand. In speaking of the other important institutions of Winfield, let us not forget this one.
Ostrander & Stayman...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.
James Ostrander, of Ostrander & Stayman, machinists, went to Burden Saturday to finish up a boiler job he has had on hand there.
Warner & Warner has changed to “Warner & McIntyre”: address given...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 13, 1885.
WARNER & McINTYRE.
CONTRACTORS & BUILDERS.
Turned Work, Scroll and Bracket Work, and all machine work got out to order. Stair Building a specialty. Estimates furnished on all work and satisfaction guaranteed.
Shop Corner of 6th and Main, Winfield, Kansas.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 27, 1885.
John A. Eaton’s new residence corner of 9th Avenue and Menor Street, is progressing rapidly. Messrs. Warner & McIntyre are the contractors. It is modern in design, convenient, and handsome. It contains fifteen or more rooms, with statuary arches and fine embellishment. It will represent about twelve thousand dollars and make one of the city’s handsomest and most creditable residences.
J. M. Stayman (Ostrander & Stayman)...
LITIGATION’S LONG LIST.
Trial Docket Cowley County District Court,
September Term, 1885, Commencing Sept. 1st.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, August 27, 1885.
2130. The City of Winfield vs J M Stayman. W. P. Hackney for plaintiff; McDermott & Johnson for defendant.
Warner & McIntyre...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, September 24, 1885.
Warner & McIntyre have the contract for putting up the Wallis & Wallis and Curns & Manser buildings on South Main street.
Notice the change in name to “Winfield Machine Shops” and the fact that the partner (James Ostrander) is no longer mentioned...
A THOROUGHLY RELIABLE INSTITUTION.
Winfield Courier, December 3, 1885.
The Winfield Machine Shops are rapidly establishing themselves in the appreciation of our people. Mr. J. M. Stayman, the proprietor, has no superior among machinists and his workmen are all first-class mechanics. During the past week Mr. Stayman and his head man, C. W. Gest, have entirely overhauled THE COURIER presses, piped our gas room, and set up our gas engine in a manner far beyond expectation. Intricate parts of our press, for which we anticipated having to send away, they have made perfectly. They can make about anything that can be manufactured from iron or steel. And when it comes to setting up any kind of machinery, they can’t be beaten. The Winfield Machine Shops are thoroughly equipped, capable of doing any work that is needed in Cowley County. Mr. Stayman is a genuine gentleman, with whom it is a pleasure to do business. The benefit to Winfield of these shops is incalculable. If your machinery gets out of gear, has any broken parts or needs any new parts, or if you want any machinery set up, you know where to go to get perfect and speedy satisfaction. Mr. Stayman is working up an appreciation most gratifying. His investment is large, his institution one of our substantial and growing manufactories and THE COURIER is glad to note his success.
Warner & McIntyre were in the Jordan building: the old foundry building...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, December 10, 1885.
The wind was in a bad tirade Friday. Real estate sailed around the heavens interviewing the angels, while part of it was playing thunder down here on earth. Out-houses were scattered all over town. The S. K. train was late—couldn’t make speed against the wind. The wires wee blown down in several places. At the depot, while waiting for the train, Stafford’s “Old Queen” gray and buss was picked up by a gust and carried down Millington street about half a mile. Stafford started after her and ascended an air balloon. In some mysterious way, both were recovered. At the courthouse the weight of brains, influence, and general ability was too slim to hold things down, and the old house shook like an autumn leaf. The air had a spite of Judge Gans and blew the chimney off his office and through the roof on top of the vault. It broke three heavy joists, making an awful hole. Nobody was killed. Arthur Bangs lost his fine bus cap this morning two miles this side of Burden. A gale turned it out to grass. “Bill,” at Ferguson’s stable, had his hat lifted while at the depot this morning. He found it on Ninth avenue, a mile away. Judge Bard and Walter Seaver can’t be found, and it is rumored that they rode off this morning on the bosom of a miniature cyclone. One of Hank Paris’ bus sorrels was blown up on the platform at the depot this morning, with his hind feet under. His last end was too fast and came near standing him on his head. Seven men lifted him out. The roof of Warner & McIntyre’s planing mill on North Main was ripped to pieces. The building is owned by Mr. Jordan. The lower part is used by Warner & McIntyre, the upper story by Mr. Jordan for sleeping rooms.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Warner mentioned in next item. Thus far, only “W. T. Warner” has been mentioned as a partner of Warner and Warner, which changed into Warner & McIntyre. Could it be that “J. W. Warner” was the other person?
Winfield Courier, Thursday, January 14, 1886.
The agreeable home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Miller was a lively scene Tuesday evening. It was the occasion of the twentieth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Miller, which fact was unknown to the guests until their arrival, making the event all the more appropriate and lively. It was one of the jolliest gatherings of married people, old and young, composed as follows, as near as we can recall: Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Millington, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Fuller, Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hackney, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Harter, Dr. and Mrs. T. B. Tandy, Dr. and Mrs. Geo. Emerson, Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Pryor, Col. and Mrs. Wm. Whiting, Mr. and Mrs. Ed G. Cole, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Doane, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Balliet, Mr. and Mrs. Handy, Mr. and Mrs. O. Branham, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Carson, Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Jennings, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McMullen, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Wallis, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Greer, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lynn, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Stone, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Buford, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Warner, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Baird, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Albro, Mrs. Alice Bishop, Mrs. Scothorn, Mrs. R. B. Waite, Mrs. Hartwell, Mrs. A. T. Spotswood, Mr. Wm. Whiting, Mr. J. R. Brooks, and Mr. D. Taylor.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, February 11, 1886.
Company C., K. N. G., and the Fire Department moved out of the Bryan building Wednesday into the old foundry building on North Main. The Fire Department will have elegant quarters on the completion of the new city building—everything in metropolitan convenience.
P. G. Van Vleet rents Bryan stone building on North Main...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, February 4, 1886.
P. G. Van Vleet and wife, of Elmira, New York, have located in Winfield. He has rented the Bryan stone building on North Main and will enter the wholesale agricultural implement business—a regular commission, storage, transfer, and forwarding business for eastern manufacturers. He is a young man of vim and means.
Van Vleet & Sage, implement dealers...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, February 18, 1886.
Holbrook & Donnell are putting in a fine glass front in the building on north Main, to be used by Van Vleet & Sage, our wholesale implement dealers.
Schofield livery barn moving: next to old foundry building on north Main...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 4, 1886.
The old Schofield livery barn, one of the oldest and homeliest landmarks in Winfield, will soon be moved on north Main next to the old foundry building, where Frank Schofield will continue his livery business. A. H. Doane will erect a handsome business house in its place. And still we boom. The old shells will all be banished from Main street before 1886 goes out.
P. G. Van Vleet, of Van Vleet & Sage...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 18, 1886.
P. G. Van Vleet, of Van Vleet & Sage, our new implement firm, went to Oxford Thursday.
Stayman to occupy building being erected by Jennings and Crippen on north Main, that will be a frame, 20 by 76 feet...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 18, 1886.
Jennings and Crippen commenced the erection of a building Monday on the lot recently purchased on north Main. It will be a frame 20 x 76, and will be occupied by Stayman for a machine shop.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 25, 1886.
Mr. Herman D. Crow, attorney at law from Urbana, Ohio, an old friend of Mr. Stayman, the machinist, is visiting Winfield. He is surprised and delighted to find such a large, live, and growing city, and says he is going to locate here as soon as possible. We size him up as just the right kind of a gentleman for such a city as this.
Van Vleet & Sage in front of room now occupied by Stayman...
Believe this indicates that both entities were at the moment in Bryan building...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 25, 1886.
Van Vleet & Sage have moved their desk room and weighing apparatus of the city scales into the front of the room now occupied by Stayman’s machine shop. They are also putting up a small barn back of their business rooms.
Finally an address: 614 Main Street (address of Bryan Building)...
Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 1, 1886.
Van Vleet & Sage, city weigh masters, have complained to the city council that others were weighing for hire. A strong prohibitive ordinance has been ordered.
NOTICE.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, April 1, 1886.
Notice is hereby given to the public that the legal city scales of the city of Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas, is situated at 614 Main Street, nearly opposite Brettun House, and that Van Vleet & Sage are the duly appointed weighmasters of the same.
Signed, W. G. Graham, Mayor. Dated March 18, 1886.
More information on Samuel Clarke...
SAMUEL CLARKE. ARKANSAS CITY.
Samuel Clarke: moved to Arkansas City...See file abdocs\AcFoundryChanges...
Samuel Clarke from Winfield Occupies Foundry as a Machine Shop.
Arkansas City Traveler, June 20, 1883.
Mr. Clarke, late of Winfield, will occupy the foundry building in this city as a machine shop.
Arkansas City Traveler, Supplement, December 19, 1883.
SAMUEL CLARKE, REPAIRING HYDRANT.
A. A. NEWMAN, DEED TO FOUNDRY LOT [AMOUNT $45.00]
Arkansas City Republican, Saturday, February 16, 1884.
FOUNDRY.
Samuel Clarke is proprietor of the Arkansas City Foundry. Any repairs to machinery can be obtained on short notice at low rates.
Arkansas City Republican, February 16, 1884.
Mr. S. Clarke, our energetic foundry man, informs us that he has sufficient work for months, but still can do urgent work on short notice.
Arkansas City Traveler, July 16, 1884.
Mr. S. Clarke, who is now running a machine shop in the foundry building, comes out in a business card this week and solicits the patronage of our people. Mr. Clarke is a first-class workman in every respect, and we hope all needing anything in his line will call upon him.
AD. S. CLARKE, MACHINIST. Every description of machine repairs done on short notice. SHOP IN FOUNDRY BUILDING. ARKANSAS CITY, KANSAS.
Arkansas City Republican, September 20, 1884.
ARKANSAS CITY IRON WORKS. SAMUEL CLARKE, MECHANICAL ENGINEER AND PROPRIETOR. Manufactures Engines, Boilers, Shafting, Pulleys, all kinds of Machine Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing and Wagon Work. Repairs on engines, boilers, mill machinery, etc.
Arkansas City Traveler, January 21, 1885.
H. P. Farrar was ordered to foreclose the mortgage on the machinery of the Arkansas City Machine Shops, owned by Samuel Clarke. It appears that the city has become responsible in some manner for the payment of the chattel mortgage and takes this means to clear themselves The mortgage was for $1,250, bearing 12 percent interest, on which the city pays 3 percent. Mr. Clarke has never paid anything either on the interest or principal of the mortgage. He has not even paid for the use of the building. The principal and interest now amount to $1,500.
Mr. Danks, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who has been prospecting here for some time, has offered Mr. Clarke $1,200, which was refused. The council, realizing that the machinery would bring almost nothing if thrown on the market, have determined to sell it now, while a purchaser is at hand.
Arkansas City Traveler, February 4, 1885.
Mr. Samuel Clarke came before the board and made a statement in regard to his understanding of contract between the city and himself, and on motion the City Attorney was instructed to go on and foreclose mortgage held by city on his machinery.
On motion the verbal contract between Mr. Clarke and city was canceled.
Article by Samuel Clarke written in October 1884...
[TARIFF.]
Winfield Courier, October 30, 1884.
A Craftsman on Tariff.
Having some leisure this evening, my thoughts run politically, and, of course, free trade and protection are prominent. This appears to some a mixed affair, but to me it seems plain. The Democratic press is howling that the workingman is being robbed through protection, and that free trade is the only remedy. The idea as presented to my mind is this. England and other foreign nations are great manufacturers of machinery, cotton, and woolen goods, etc., in fact, are producing more than they can consume, and, of course, must seek a market elsewhere. The United States manufacture and produce the same goods. The producers here pay taxes to our government, employ the masses of the people, and in improvements, extension of “plants,” etc., spend their money with us. England and other foreign countries, if they sell their goods to us, simply pay the customs on their goods there, and the bulk is spent to build up their own nation. The Democratic press and speakers try to make the people believe they are robbed through this tariff. Now let us look at this and ask ourselves individually, what do we need that is not produced in this country? I do not believe, today, that it is necessary for workingmen to buy any foreign manufactures, nor do I believe that in the last twenty years that the protective tariff has cost them $20 each on what they have purchased. I have thought a good deal on this subject and am emphatically for protection. The Democratic taffy to Independent Republicans and colored men, as the great Lincoln used to say, “reminds me of a story.”
“Some years ago there was an old man whose son was an intimate friend of mine in my boyhood days. The old gentleman had given his boy a pig on the promise that he would feed and care for the balance of them in the pen. The boy, James, took good care of all, and when they had grown fat, ready for the knife, he traded his pig for a gun. He told his father about it, and he said all right James, when will you take it away? James told him the boy he got the gun of would come with him from school the next day and drive it off. The next afternoon the boy came with him, and just as they got to the pen they saw the pig’s hind quarters just sliding into a barrel of hot water. The old man had killed the pig, and he was now scalding it. James, with tears in his eyes, ran up and said, “Father, that is my pig.” The old man turned around to him and said, “Oh, yes, James, that is your pig, but you know it is your father’s pork.’”
From the past record of the Democratic party, they promise colored men and others a great deal before it can be used to profit and the colored men and others are promised a good many pigs, but when the division of offices come, it is all Democratic pork.
I am glad you are giving us the experiences of your life on this subject and trust they may be carefully read My opinion is that if the voters of this country examine for themselves, there is no doubt of Blaine and Logan being elected by an immense majority. Yours as ever for the truth. SAM’L CLARKE. Arkansas City, October 24th, 1884.
Winfield Courier, Thursday, March 11, 1886.
Mr. Samuel Clarke, the machinist and engineer, writes us from Arkansas City, his present residence: “The steamboat company are making preparations to deck and equip their barges and as soon as complete, I expect she will take a cargo of flour for Fort Smith. Please send my COURIER down here as we cannot keep house without it.”
