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Manufacturers Index - Sargent, Osgood & Roundy Co.
History
Last Modified: Sep 8 2011 9:24PM by Jeff_Joslin
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This agricultural equipment maker also manufactured some type of power circular saw, likely a firewood saw.

The business was founded in 1903 by W. R. Sargent, A. G. Osgood, and C. C. Roundy. The business survived into the late 1930s but probably not much longer than that.

Information Sources

  • The Online Archive of California's Inventory of the Floyd Hal Higgins Collection includes an undated pamphlet from Sargent, Osgood & Roundy Co., whose subjects include a "Saw, Power".
  • The 1920 Walton's Vermont Year Book (Register) lists this firm as a maker of "plows, harrows, cultivators, etc."
  • Midland Publishing Company's 1912 Implement Blue Book has this listing:
    SARGENT, OSGOOD & ROUNDY CO. President, W. R. Sargent; Vice-President, C. C. Roundy; Treasurer, A. G. Osgood.—Walking and Sulky Plows, Harrows, Horse Hoes, Hand Cultivators, Tank Heaters, Hog Troughs and Feed Mangers.
  • The 1920 Farm Implement News Buyers Guide has a listing of makers of "Wood Sawing Machines (Circular)", including this company.
  • From the Seventh Annual Cooperative Tractor Catalog, 1922, this firm is listed as a maker of "wood sawing machines".
  • A 1928 issue of The Foundry has the following obituary:
    Charles C. Roundy, aged 65, president of the Sargent, Osgood & Roundy Co., Randolph, Vt., died at his home in ... In 1903 he organized the Sargent, Osgood & Roundy Co. at Randolph. He returned to Worcester in 1911 and became sales ...
  • The United States Congressional Serial Set for 1938 lists this firm among makers of agricultural equipment.