The second rank — Howard's list and the directory's small headings

1883 – 1907

The method of this entry: What remains of the sweep is the list itself. Howard's manufactures chapter closes, in its fifteenth section, with a partial list of some seventy further firms he does not profile; Farr's directory carries headings with a single firm under them. Neither source gives these houses a course, and none is invented for them here. They stand at list size — name, trade, and where the record puts them — because a completeness sweep that printed only the firms with stories would miss the point of sweeping.

Iron and wood, 1883: Under Boiler Makers the directory carries one firm, "Mathews, Jonathan, 306 to 314 e Tutt" — Howard's list keeps the trade and spells the name "Matthews": the Matthews Steam Boiler Works, "long conducted by Jonathan Matthews," with the Hull Brothers' Boiler Company, Thaddeus M. Talcott's Boiler Works, Maurer, Labadie & Company, boiler makers, and the Boiler Compound Manufacturing Company beside it. Under Planing Mills: Hartzell & Perkins, at Chapin and Orchard; Hodson, Stanfield & Co., at the foot of East Washington on the west race; and Jackson, Newton, at 524 e South — the first two again under Sash, Doors and Blinds, with Boyd & Hillier. Under Pump Manufacturers, one firm: the South Bend Pump Co., on the west race near the water works — Farr's errata carry a man who "wks South Bend Pump Co." Under Cement Manufacturers, one firm: the Stone Pipe and Cement Manufacturing Co., 518 s Lafayette. Under Chair Manufacturers, one: Huey, M. G., on the west race near the water works. Under Grain Drills, one: Strayer, Jacob & Co., 317 Hydraulic Avenue. Under Barrels, one: Quay, Arthur J., 157 to 161 e Tutt — the city's cooperage, a single-firm heading. Under Machine Shops, two firms only — Bowsher and Sibley & Ware — whose records stand in this section's own entries.

Howard's list, 1907: The foundries of the second rank: the Northern Brass & Aluminum Foundry, the Anderson Brass Foundry, the Meyer Foundry and Manufacturing Company, and the South Bend Foundry Company — beside the Indiana Foundry Company, which has its own entry here. Concrete and cement machinery: Botts & Klaasen Concrete Works; Calvert H. Defrees Concrete Works; R. S. Hollowell Concrete Works; the Ideal Concrete Machine Co.; the Edmondson Concrete Machine Co.; R. Z. Snell, cement block machine manufacturers; and Henry C. Eckler, building-material manufacturer. Brick: the Frank Fisher Brick Kilns, the Frank Perkins Brick Kilns, and the South Bend Brick Company. Lumber and planing: the Indiana Lumber and Manufacturing Company, headed by Christopher Fassnacht; Miller & Donahue; Smith & Jackson; and the Ziegler-Stickler lumber and manufacturing companies. Tents and awnings: the South Bend Tent & Awning Co., the Indiana Tent & Awning Co., and the James W. Camper Tent & Awning Works. Cigars: Farr's four makers of 1883 — Friedman Bros., Hafer & Lewis, Lennert, Hugo, and Solomon, P. & E. — had become a trade: Howard counts the McErlain & Elbel cigar-box manufacturers "and eighteen to twenty other cigar manufacturers," and the News-Times of 12 November 1913 shows the L. S. Kent Cigar Co. hiring cigar makers and tobacco strippers.

The tail of the list: At single-name size, from Howard's list: the Colfax Manufacturing Company, light wagons; Hunt Brothers' Wagon and Carriage Works; Colmer Brothers, tools and bicycle specialties; the South Bend Iron Bed Company; the Davies Shirt Company, beside the Wilson house of the Businesses record; the George Cutter Electric Specialty Company; the South Bend Chandelier Company; the South Bend Dowel Works; the South Bend Machine Manufacturing Company; the Williams-Forrest Machine Company; the Wells-Kreighbaum Extension Table Manufacturers; the Indiana Anchor Fence Company; the Worden Bucktail Fishing Tackle Company; the grill makers John Gannen, William Neidhart, and John A. Neuperth; the Owen Harness Snaps Manufactory; the John D. Haberle Machine Works; the Schock Machine Company; the Charles M. Starr Machine Works; the Perfection Mattress Company; Russell & Ober, excelsior and mattresses; the Turner Oil Filter Company; the South Bend Pulp and Plaster Company; the Beall Non-Pounding Frog and Crossing Company, railroad frogs; the John Beyrer Roofing Company; Lauber & Weiss Galvanized Works; the Cassady Rotary Engine Company; the David Armstrong Rubber Stamp Factory; the H. A. Pershing Office Supply Works; the Bailey & Ingram Rubber Stamp Works; the August Soderberg Snuff Factory; the South Bend Spark Arrester Company — Building South Bend's records spell it "Spark Arrestor" and name its founder as Albert M. Harris, whose grandson J. Albert Harris headed it in 1928, and the two spellings stand as their sources give them; the Malleable Steel Range Manufacturing Company; the C. G. Folsom & Co. Stove Company; the South Bend Spring Wagon & Carriage Company; John Dyer's and Chauncey Pippinger's weather-strip works; the South Bend Split Pulley Works; and the Stephenson Manufacturing Company, wood turnings — the Staley corporation, whose mill stands in the Businesses record and is named here only to complete the list. The list closes there, at the size the record gives it.

Sources:

1. Timothy E. Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, Vol. 1 (1907), manufactures chapter, sec. 15 — the chapter's closing list of firms, quoted at list size.
2. Farr's South Bend City Directory for 1883, Classified Business Directory — the Boiler Makers, Planing Mills, Sash Doors and Blinds, Pump Manufacturers, Cement Manufacturers, Chair Manufacturers, Grain Drills, Barrels, Cigar Manufacturers, and Machine Shops headings.
3. South Bend News-Times, 12 November 1913, want advertisements — the L. S. Kent Cigar Co. hiring.
4. University of Notre Dame, Building South Bend property records — the South Bend Spark Arrestor Company's founder and its 1928 head.