Vonnegut Hardware Company , a native of Germany, immigrated to America at age 27 and started the Vollmer and Vonnegut business with Charles… Read More »Vonnegut Hardware Company
Walker Dorothy “Tommie” Walker could never have imagined what she was starting when she began going door-to-door conducting surveys in 1939.… Read More »Walker
War Manpower Commission Industries producing war material geared up immediately following Pearl Harbor. To meet the demand for labor, the employment services of… Read More »War Manpower Commission
Western Electric Western Electric was a telephone manufacturing unit for Bell Telephone. Its predecessor obtained control of the telephone equipment factory managed… Read More »Western Electric
Wheaton World Wide Moving Ohio native Earnest S. Wheaton founded Wheaton Van Lines in 1945. He had entered the moving business in 1916 with… Read More »Wheaton World Wide Moving
William B. Burford Printing Company The Burford Printing Company had its beginnings in the 1860s in a partnership between Miles W. Burford, a banker then… Read More »William B. Burford Printing Company
William H. Block Company In 1896, Herman Wilhelm Bloch, who later anglicized his name to , opened a small department store at 9 East… Read More »William H. Block Company
Woodburn Sarven Wheel Company In the mid-1860s, J. R. Osgood and S. F. Smith established a business producing wagon and carriage materials on South… Read More »Woodburn Sarven Wheel Company