This maker of agricultural machinery also made sawmills and related machinery. The business is known to have been active from 1855 through 1904.It was originally operated as Munn & C0. founded by Abraham G. Munn and Thomas Brennan. In 1877, this firm manufactured a Sugar Cane Mill patented by Abraham G. Munn, Charles T. Clark and Thomas Brennan. An announcement on 25 Jan., 1904, stated that the business was sold to the Blymyer Iron Works Co. of Cincinnati, OH., by the American Seeding Co. who were the successors to Brennan & Co.

Information Sources

• Listed in the 1874 work, Wiley's American iron trade manual of the leading iron industries of the United States as "BRENNAN & Co.—Proprietors South-western Agricultural Works.—Location of works, Louisville. Agricultural machinery and implements."
• An 1886 patent for a circular sawmill was granted to one Harvey R. Wolfe and assigned to this company.
• An 1889 patent for a sawmill dog was granted to Wolfe and co-assigned to John R. Bascom of Louisville and South Western Agricultural Works.
• Ca. 1890s catalog of 31 pages, entitled, "Brennan & Co. South-Western Agricultural Implement Works / Manufacturers of agricultural implements, standard farm machinery, circular saw mills, &c. Reduced prices to suit the times. Circular saw mills, shingle and lath machines, &c."
• The American Cane Mill, ©2010, pgs. 82-85