Show he invented a rolling disc blade to cut tough prairie sod S A ingersoll Inger soU founder of the company had decided as a farm boy that a sharp rolling roiling disc blade was wag needed to run ahead of the mold board on horse drawn plows to cut the tough prairie sod of his day by 1884 he had developed a complete rolling coulter which was widely accepted by farm implement manufacturers and d he opened a factory to manufacture the blades at 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 traffie traffic manager a nager 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 maker catering 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 HI it was there during world war 1 I supplying necessary parts for farm implements when the plant was completely destroyed by fire undismayed ingersoll Inger soU workers continued their production during a bitter winter while new walls and toas roof were built around them |