The Hydraulic Foundry went through a variety of owners: variously Emile Barbaroux, Benjamin Franklin Tevis, Richard Snowden, and others. In 1854 the operators of the foundry were Tevis & Barbaroux. By 1858 it was known as the Barbaroux & Snowden Hydraulic Foundry. By 1888 (and probably by 1860) the foundry was operated by Barbaroux & Co.
Ad from Montague's Illinois and Missouri state directory for 1854-5
Information Sources
- From an ad in 1854 Scientific American.
- From page 2 of Montague's Illinois and Missouri state directory for 1854-5 is the ad shown above. It provides us the names of the co-owners: B. F. Tevis and E. Barbaroux. The hub mortiser patent mentioned in the ad is Patent 3,891.
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The encyclopedia of Louisville, by John E. Kleber, 2001, writing of the many Louisville foundries in 1860, says, "The Hydraulic Foundry of Emile Barbaroux and Richard Snowden at Floyd and Washington Streets produced the usual line of steam engines and varied machinery. The Louisvile Daily Journal of October 13, 1858, reported Snowden's death of yellow fever in Mississippi, where he had gone 'to put up machinery made by his firm.'"
- From The Railroad, Telegraph, and Steamship Builders' Directory, 1888: a listing under wood-working machinery for "Barbaroux & Co., 31 3d st., Louisville, Ky."
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Steam Power on the American Farm by Reynold M. Wik, 1953 page 252