"Sidney has...always enjoyed a steady and healthy growth; not is she yet at rest.  Improvements are continually going on, and everything appertaining to her moral, social, industrial, commercial, educational and professional life has an upward tendency...investors should investigate and be convinced.   For further information, inquire of THE SIDNEY COMMERCIAL CLUB."  A City Noted For Its Mfg., 1910. 


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LOCAL HISTORY

FACTORS INFLUENCING DEVELOPMENT
1805 to 1830/Immigration
1837 to 1850/Canal Era
1851 to 1870/Railroad
Financing
Recruitment
Available Resources

INDUSTRIES
Beer
Broom Makers
Butter Churns
Candy
Cigars
Cookware
Iron & Foundry
Machine Tool
Mills and their Byproducts
Paper Folding Machines
Pole & Shaft

School Desks
Steel Scraper
Tanning
Transportation
Woodworking
PRESENT DAY BUSINESSES
Amos Press
Copeland
Monarch Machine Tool
Peerless Bread Machine
Ross Aluminum
Stolle Corporation

IMPORTANT PEOPLE
J.O. & Delia Amos
W.H.C. & Ida Goode
Benjamin Slusser
Philip Smith
Lafayette M. Studevant
I.H. Thedieck
Daniel Toy
Wagner Family

RURAL INDUSTRY
Grain Mills
Inventors
Saw Mills
Tile Mills
Industry Faded

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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