Source: Rockford Register Star, December 3, 2019.
Beloit
A Few Ads, July 1966
Source: Rockford Morning Star 7/2/1966
“39 JA Companies Are Organized” – 1968
Source: Rockford Morning Star Oct. 15, 1968
Weekend Dancing at Waverly Beach, Beloit – April 1971
Source; Rockford Morning Star April 30, 1971
Waverly Beach Ballroom, Beloit – May, 1971
Source: Rockford Morning Star May 7, 1971
Joy Environmental Technologies Inc – Babcock & Wilcox
Source: Rockford Register Star April 24, 1995
Waverly Beach, Beloit – 1962
Fairbanks-Morse – 1952
Fairbanks-Morse
“Fairbanks, Morse is Giant of Rock River Industries”
The invention of a windmill by a Beloit missionary and the invention of a scale by a Vermont youth led to Fairbanks-Morse of Beloit, Wisconsin
Thaddeus Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont invented the scale and sought expansion
The windmill was invented by the Reverend Leonard A. Wheeler of Beloit, an Indian missionary
The company covers 100 acres and 5,400 employees, and has its own gas system and water system
The produce pumps, marine engines, magnetos
More than 3,000,000 magnetos have gone into Ford automobiles
43 marine engines ordered by the U. S. government were designated to pull army tugboats
Source: Rockford Morning Star, 04/13/1952
Brown, Horace
Brown, Horace treas. Forest City Ins. co., and vice-pres. and city treas. Rockford nat. bank, resides Beloit, fourth house n. of bridge
Source: Bassett’s Rockford City Directory for 1879, page 28
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