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In 1866 Daniel Geiser, now deceased, established at Waynesboro the business that was incorporated in 1869 as the Geiser Manufacturing Company, Mr. Geiser having as associates J. F. Oller, Benj. E. Price and Josiah Fahrney. They originally built the Geiser self-regulating threshers and horse-powers, beginning the manufacture of engines in 1879, when they purchased the plant of F. F. & A. B. Landis, of Lancaster, Pa. F. F. Landis took at this time the position of superintendent and in 1889 designed the New Peerless thresher. The company also made portable engines and sawmills, and have for several years past had steam plowing outfits on the market, using their traction engine. A. E. Price is president; B. E. Price, vice-president; A. D Morganthal, secretary; J. J. Oller, treasurer, and F. F. Landis, superintendent.
This maker of engines, threshers, and sawmills was acquired by Emerson-Brantingham Co. in 1912. It was sold back to investors in Waynesboro in 1925 and went bankrupt in 1939.
Information Sources
- 1905, 1906 catalogs.
- American Agricultural Implements,1894 page 234
- Listed in C. H. Wendel's The Circular Saw Mill.
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American Steam Engine Builders: 1800-1900 by Kenneth L. Cope, 2006 page 101
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Steam Power on the American Farm by Reynold M. Wik, 1953 pages 252 & 254
- More history and machine information can be found at the Wikipedia web site.
- The Steam Tractor Encyclopedia by John F. Spalding & Robert T. Rhode, 2011 pages 168-177