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EST"TEC`_% INDIANA HISTORIC SITES AND DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES STRUCTURES INVENTORY (SUPPLEMENTAL SHEET) State Form 42881 (11-88) ab STATE OF INDIANA Name Survey / Site Number Address (Street and number) County 1302 High Street "Wells-Kreighbaum Manufactur,'Lng Company/ City 311iJIC1 81 VLI ICI 5 Ku lour at.: Lu1 _j smIff JIIINd IIy „ Additional Information (Use reverse side for drawing) The brick industrial building on the southeast corner of High 3Li ccL aiiJ 1101111.>yItlallia Avclluc way 4,VIIaLI ut-,LatJ ill 16303. Tllr; original firm here was the Wells-Kreighbaum Manufacturing C-,alJe 111}+lly . iL LI IC 11 t-:a IIIC LIIC C J W11 -3II1 IC1 I Idllul r-ct"; L u i lllty CVI11pa Ily from 1908 to 1910 and the Shidler Brothers Manufacturing Company from 1"10 Lu 19S7 . Yllc bulls- iiiI j wd5 1dLCl u5ed d5 d wdI CIIVuSC (VI the H. J. Schrader Company, who eventually opened ```a retail I- L, 11LLuIC •LVIC ill LIIC bui 14 J. Ily, I C111a J.Il.l.11y IIv1C ullLil 17V0. The original company, Wells-Kreighbaum, manufactured dining alij liLl al y T Ilt::y raVeIILually tzxA pctiiJtvt-I LIICJ.I lily LV include extension tables and a variety of store and office fJ.iiLU--, ca. Dy 1.13110 Llle I_umNaIIy ut.,t uF,it J Lwu lal 5e buJ,lJilly5 tall LIIC site with " modern" steam power machinery and alarge, skilled WVI k fVl k_V . T IIC H1 VJu,_La IIIat.. -_ IICI C wCl e J15L1 J. bu Lt,-j LI II VuyI IVuL the United States. Tllc fir aL of fit al a of LI1 t..VIIINaIIy wcl a - Evil t~LL E. Wt 115, president; Hiram/ W . Kreighbaum , vice-president; Mark D . (Early, ar ly , Jc\..1 CLaI r, alli l.Ill 1 L1all H. WCII CI , 1 I Cast.-ll CI 1litvz-C. VI (14C."> changed hands several times in the ten years the company operated i...il,dwi LIIC Wcll"'I(1 triyl-(L)a1.111I IIa111C . ElmerEllsworth Wells had been in a similar- business, under L11c: ilalllC A. WC11J alld SVII, wjAh Ilia IIC fciLI 167ry 6. Ihim film, atthefoot of Washington Street in South Bend, manufactured wood at 1 t".C11 Gild IJllllll, IJall1\ dlld rrl(.:C I uI IIl I1111t4j-, az: wCll d dealing in lumber. The name of the business changed in 1889 to Lll WtA1z=, I alluf auLul iliy Gumpolly ctiid by 1912 ill LIIC manufacture of wood products for engravers and electro-t-ypers. WC 11wdbut II 1 II AVVCd IJCAi :, W j K ApI i 1 24 , 1661 , I VII V AlValI and Marietta (Smith)Wells. Hediedin September of 1947. Hi de oll W. KI iV1IbCtUlIl KIIuwii ill 5uuLII 6CI1V dzsaministerof the German Baptist Brethren Church, the Dunkards, in Ll le z.VuLl leaSL ,- LIIC u.i Ly . HC wctz:; Clt tuLvd LV LIIC nli lliz::;Lr y in 1882 and served for thirty years. Born in September, 1846 on a fdim iivcti AKrVI1, Ohiu, he died Julie ii, i9i4- , ill SouLI-I bend. His son, Hiram C., was also an officer of the company at various Llllle5. Foe wdz: bull] 111 16/6 111 6Vui. l1 wds employed as an cont.: see supplemental sheet #2) Information Sources Prepared By I Date