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W. Giles
St. Louis, MO; Cincinnati, OH; Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Manufacturer Class: Wood Working Machinery

History

Last Modified: Oct 25 2016 8:41AM by Jeff_Joslin
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From an 1879 advertising pamphlet

William W. Giles, a maker of human-powered drag saws, was in St. Louis in 1878, in Cincinnati in 1879, and in Chicago by 1881. He received several patents for his machines. He successfully sued Farmers Manufacturing Co., another drag saw maker, for patent infringement.

Information Sources

Most of the information is from patent records. See the Patents section, below.
A web page on AmericanArtifacts.com provides the "smoking gun": an 1879 advertisement for W. Giles' drag saw.

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