Listed in the 1874 work, Wiley's American iron trade manual of the leading iron industries of the United States, as a maker of "steam engines, saw mills, and general machinery.
Reinhard Scheidler was a noted inventor of steam engines and related technology. The Scheidler Machine Works building, constructed in 1861, is now a museum.
Newark Machine Works went bankrupt in 1860 and one of the receivers was Reinhard Scheidler. Scheidler and another machinist at the Newark plant named John H. McNamar leased the Newark factory and founded Scheidler & McNamar. In 1861 they built their own factory on South 3rd Street, in Newark, OH. What was left of Newark Machine Works was sold to the Blandy Co. of Zanesville, OH. In 1866, a fire destroyed Blandy's Zanesville, OH factory and Blandy moved to the old Newark Machine Works factory in Newark. Scheidler & McNamar was dissolved in 1881.
Meanwhile, both Scheidler and McNamar went their own ways, Scheider founding Scheidler Machine Works and McNamar establishing as Julius J. D. McNamar .
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