This company, probably founded by Eber C. Preble, was in business from about the late 1870s through to 1897, and perhaps for longer. Their product line consisted primarily of planers, shapers, and resaws.
By 1883 it seems that the company had been taken over by Ransom Richards (president), George F. Wetherell (secretary-treasurer) and Richard B. Jones (superintendent). Between 1883 and 1889 Wetherell and Jones received a half dozen patents, primarily for planers, that were assigned jointly to the three men.
Information Sources
- An 1879 planer patent was assigned to Eber C. Preble of Chicago.
- Ad in the May 1889 issue of "The Wood-Worker".
- Mention in Planers, Matchers & Molders in America as a woodworking machinery maker that was in business in 1897.