Show he invented a rolling disc blade to cut tough prairie sod S A ingersoll founder of the com sany any had decided as a farm boy hat a sharp rolling disc blade was deeded to run ahead of the mold oard on horse drawn plows to cut he be tough prairie sod of his day by 1884 he had developed a coin complete rolling coulter which was widey acce accepted apted by farm implement manufacturers and he opened a actori to manufacture the blades it sandoval ill where his grain and lumber business already was established it is told of him that in those earlier times S A ingersoll was a man of many duties simultaneously he was plant manager workman salesman shipping clerk traffic manager bookkeeper and treasurer so that his income might be supplemented and the opportunity for steady employment spread more evenly among his employees the senior ingersoll became also a bar rel in maker a ker cater catering ing to the needs of fruit growers he built and operated a canning factory twenty years after the business was started he moved it to galesburg ill it was there during world war I 1 supplying necessary parts for farm farin implements when the plant was completely destroyed by fire undismayed ingersoll workers continued their production during a bitter winter while new walls and roof were built around them |