The coroner found the company responsible for the three deaths. 26 killed three people, including a student who was hit by falling debris at the nearby St. In 1881, the company moved to First and Madison Streets, producing, among other items, the “Dayton Patent Compressed Band Hub and Tenon Wheel.” In the same year, a boiler explosion in the plant on Oct. A decade later, Zwick was bought out, and the company changed its name to Pinneo & Daniels. Daniels invested in the firm as well, which was renamed Zwick, Pinneo & Daniels. Pinneo purchased an interest in the company, and a year later, E.A.
Bookwalter, and they advertised their business as “manufacturers of carriage wheels, hubs, spokes, and all kinds of bent material for carriages.” In 1865, A.W. Ernst Zwick, a native of Germany, arrived in Dayton in 1852 and set up the business in 1855. Before that, however, there stood a manufacturing plant for another wheel company, the Pinneo & Daniels Co. In the 20th century, Delco plants took up a large portion of the area around Patterson Boulevard and East First Street (today, one of the structures has been repurposed into the Delco Lofts). Brown by way of his father, Thomas Brown, who came to Dayton in 1828 and worked as a contractor and builder the street was named after him in 1848.) Company 2: Pinneo & Daniels (The nearby Brown Street is connected to Samuel N. By 1958, the house was gone and replaced with the Kroger grocery store that remains there today. Paul Lutheran Church then purchased the site with plans of constructing a church, but it failed to materialize. Another Dayton wheel maker, Harman Rogge, bought Brown’s house and lived there until his death in 1919. Newspaper articles hint at financial troubles for Brown in addition to the company going into receivership, multiple auctions were held to sell lots in the S.N. There, he built a house at 1557 Wayne Ave., where he lived until 1898. In addition to his wagon wheel company, Brown also owned a tract of land along Wayne Avenue south of Wyoming Street, east of Woodland Cemetery. By 1897, however, the company went into receivership - a form of liquidation - and ceased operations in 1899. The firm, at Fourth and Kenton streets along an extension of the Miami-Erie Canal, changed its name to S.N. Brown, and it carried the name Blanchard & Brown until Blanchard died in 1865. Shortly thereafter, he set up a partnership with Samuel N.
The first wagon wheel company in the region was established by Harvey Blanchard in 1847. “Daytons,” as the wire wheels are popularly known, have even earned some high-profile mentions* from artists including Snoop Dogg and LL Cool J. In the 19th century, three companies and a handful of men were largely responsible for the manufacture of wagon wheels across the Dayton region by World War I, however, one company was out of business, and the other two merged to create a business that is thriving today, serving aficionados of custom sports cars, street rods, race cars and motorcycles. An exploration of historical documents revealed some fascinating family, geographical and pop culture connections.
This installment contains a familiar name - Rogge - from past blogs, which have explored Rogge Street in the UD student neighborhood and the Brown Street business district, which had a grocery with the Rogge moniker.īefore vehicle assembly and automotive component manufacturing became signature Dayton enterprises in the 20th century, the city had a thriving industry in the sector’s prequel: wheels.
#Dayton wire wheels series
This blog is part of a series of Dayton historical pieces by Heidi Gauder and Bridget Retzloff.
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