HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS

Edited by Newton Bateman, LL. D. and Paul Selby, A.M.

AND HISTORY OF EDGAR COUNTY

Edited by H. Van Sellar

Chicago: 

Munsell Publishing Company

1905

 

 

Page 652-653

 

HISTORY OF EDGAR COUNTY.

 

In 1854 Graham & Henry organized a manufactory of plows in connection with general blacksmithing and wagon-making on East Wood Street, in Paris, which they conducted with success for fifteen or twenty years, employing a number of workmen; and for some years Lisbon Odenbaugh operated a manufactory for lighter vehicles, such as buggies, carriages and spring-wagons.  Odenbaugh went to the war in 1862 and never resumed his manufacturing, while Graham & Henry closed out their business when it ceased to be profitable because of competition of the big plow factories.