This bicycle and woodworking machinery manufacturer was incorporated in 1896 and seems to have been short-lived as evidence of its existence is very scarce. We have a single report of a Welivar jointer.

Information Sources

• The American Machinist for 1896-08-06 has this news item.

  The Welliver Manufacturing Co., Philipsburg, Pa., will erect a plant to manufacture bicycles and install a line of new and improved machinery.

• The Engineering News for 1896-08-13 has this news item.

  PHILIPSBURG, PA.—Work is beginning on a factory to manufacture bicycles. The incorporators of the company are: J. H. Turnbach, William L. Wellivar, G. Frank Wellivar, William E. Irwin, W. H. Denlinger, G. Frank Davis.

• The Wheel and Cycling Trade Review for 1896-08-21 has this news item.

  PHILIPSBURG, PA.—Work is beginning on a factory to manufacture bicycles. The incorporators of the company are: J. H. Turnbach, William L. Wellivar, G. Frank Wellivar, William E. Irwin, W. H. Denlinger, G. Frank Davis.

• The 1896-08-22 Chicago Journal of Commerce and Metal Industries has this item.

  The Welivar Manufacturing Company, Philipsburg, Pa., are engaging in the manufacture of bicycles and have just purchased from the Davis & Egan Machine Tool Company their entire equipment of tools including hub machines, engine lathes, milling machines, drill presses, shapers, etc.

• The Annual Report by Pennsylvania. Dept. of the Factory Inspector for the Year 1896 lists Welliver Mfg. Co. of Philipsburg, a machinery manufacturer, as a factory visited that year. The company's "goods manufactured" were "woodworking machines".
• Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Passed at the Session of 1897 has the following entry in its list of newly chartered companies.

  Wellivar Manufacturing Company of Philipsburg, Centre county, capital stock $20,000, August 11, 1896. Said corporation is formed for the purpose of the manufacture of all kinds of wood-working machinery and bicyles, and any articles of commerce from metal or wood, or both, and for these purposes to have, possess and enjoy all the benefits and privileges of said act of Assembly and its supplements.

  The index listing spelled the company name as "Welivar Manufacturing Co."
• J. H. Beers & Co.'s Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania has a biography of one William H. Denlinger that mentions that he was "a director in the Welivar Manufacturing Company".
• The Annual Report by Pennsylvania. Dept. of the Factory Inspector for the Year 1900 lists Welivar Mfg. Co. of Philipsburg, a machinery manufacturer, as a factory visited that year.