The Stover Manufacturing and Engine Company was created by D.C. Stover in 1881.American Gasoline Engines Since 1872, MBI Publishing, 1999, pp. 489-96. An established inventor, he progressed through a profitable windmill business to, in 1895, the manufacture of

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and

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powered

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for use on the American farm.

History

The Stover company began producing windmills in 1879. It was incorporated in 1881 as the Stover Manufacturing and Engine Company and by 1922 they had 600 employees. Stover made more than 277,000 engines of various sizes and uses. Stover licensed some designs to

Sears, Roebuck and Co. Sears, Roebuck and Co. ( ), commonly known as Sears, is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as ...

under the Economy trademark.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stover Manufacturing and Engine Company Engine manufacturers of the United States