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Industry Grows ■■In the early seventies Davenport breweries made about 18,tS barrels of beer annually and about two-thirds of it was consume® locally. About 80,000 gallons of native wine were produced in the county in 1871.Among the successful wholesale firms listed in 1874 were Scig and Williams, hardware; Jens Lorcnzcn, crockery; Robert Krause, clothing, and Haight, Scars Co., saddlery.One of the newcomers to the manufacturing field was llcnry G. Weincrt, former school teacher who experimented on a stovo in a tannery in west Davenport and developed glucose or corn sugar. A company .was formed to finance manufacturing, mid shortly Davenport had one of the first glucose plants of its kind in the United States.Another important phase of the manufacturing field, was that of pork packing, A leader in that business during this decade was J. L. Zoeckler. Others followed, including Henry Kohrs in 1875.Also in '75 Robert Krause established a clothing factory, turning out pants, vests, jeans, suits, shirts and overalls.Various food products wcro produced on a large scale after the war, and Henry Korn introduced new machinery and methods to producing bakery goods.The most important brandies of manufacturing using largely imported raw materials were the implement plants and machine shops. In the sixties in Davenport Raff, Cock and Company manufactured reapers, mowers, cane mills, horse rakes and cultivators; and in the seventies LcClaire Foundry and Machine Sho*'! turned out threshing machines, corn and cob mills, horse powei1 and steam engines.
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Morning Democrat
Davenport, Iowa, US
Wed, Oct 05, 1955
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