. The journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York continental regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's campaign against the western Indians . Fig. 57.—Early Whteler Machine. Fig. 58.—Cutting Apparatus of First Wlieeler Machine, 1853. 166 INVENTOKS AND INVENTIONS who kept a store at Poplar Ritlgc. He afterwards became aRail Road contractor, and subsequently a coal dealer in tbiscity, and in 1858, became- the managing head of the firm ofRoss, Dodge and Pomeroy, which firm engaged in the man-ufacture of small agricultural tools and wlieel-barrows inA


. The journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York continental regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's campaign against the western Indians . Fig. 57.—Early Whteler Machine. Fig. 58.—Cutting Apparatus of First Wlieeler Machine, 1853. 166 INVENTOKS AND INVENTIONS who kept a store at Poplar Ritlgc. He afterwards became aRail Road contractor, and subsequently a coal dealer in tbiscity, and in 1858, became- the managing head of the firm ofRoss, Dodge and Pomeroy, which firm engaged in the man-ufacture of small agricultural tools and wlieel-barrows inAuburn Prison. They also engaged, (in__coiniection withSheldon & Co., who had a contract in the prison,) in themanufacture of what was then known as the Wheeler Com-bined Mower and Reaper. Subsequently they engaged inthe manufacture of the Ball machine; Sheldon & Co. takingthe Wheeler. Alter this Mr. Ross and Mr. Pomeroy retired,and the Ball n>achine was superseded by what was known asthe Dodge machine, and an incorporated company, know asthe Dodge and Stevenson Manufacturing Co., engaged quiteextensively in its manufacture. On this machine Col. Dtxlge obtained seven patents indi-vidually, and two in


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