This firm was known as Moore & Kerrick in 1879, and as Kerrick & Co. in 1880. They seem to have been both a retailer and a manufacturer of woodworking machinery, included a Zschech patent lever head-block for sawmills.

Information Sources

• Twenty-Ninth Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture", 1879, Indiana State Fair, Indianapolis, October 1879. "Moore & Kerrick, 158 and 164 South Pennsylvania street, Indianapolis, Ind., as usual had a good display of Wood Working Machinery and Supplies. They are leaders in this line, having one of the largest machinery warerooms in the West, containing every improvement in machinery, which they thoroughly understand in a practical way. Their trade extends all over the United States."
• Thirtieth Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture, 1880. "Report of the First Division of the Committee on the Special Merits of unpremiumed articles, Exhibited at the State Fair, 1880".

  Kerrick & Co., Indianapolis, Inc., exhibited a set of improved simultaneous, compound lever-set head blocks for saw mills, of which Gustavus H. Zschech is the inventor. The main claims to advantage in these head blocks are the construction of the feed movement. It is very simple and accurate. There being no pawls, springs or clicks to handle, all that is require to adjust is a wedge used to disengage the set movement, in order to bring the knees back quickly to get ready for another log. They are accurate to any required thickness and very rigid. The knees are set up by a lever and screw of one inch and nine-sixteenths in diameter, and one and a half inch pitch. The head blocks take in fifty-one inches between saw and knee, a very important consideration in sawing large logs. The set rod, which brings the knees up to the saw, is of two inches diameter, being made extra heavy in order to avoid the effect of torsion in handling long and heavy logs. The screws work through five inches long gun-metal sleeve boxes, chilled on steel mandrel. On the back of box is cast a round boss, two and one-half inches in diameter, and nicely twined to fit the recess in knee, and one bolt to hold it in place; this avoids the breaking of bolts if a heavy log should roll quickly against the knee. The head blocks are adjustable to any wide of carriage, and, if desired, the sawyer can ride on the carriage in order to save time in getting ready for another cut. The work is done very accurately, all the parts are made interchangeable and well finished.

• From A Practical Treatise on High Pressure Steam Boilers, by William Miller Barr, 1880: "A very simple and convenient device for raising water is shown in Figure 128, made by Moore & Kerrick, Indianapolis, Ind."
• No patents were found that could be tied to this firm.