J. Weller & Co.

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About
Name
  • J. Weller & Co.
Manufacturing
  • Food Manufacturing
Trading names
  • Weller Pickle Factory
Services
  • Pickle Manufacturing
Facts
Founded
  • Date unknown
    Smithville,Ohio
Dissolved
  • 1909
Related
Key Persons
Founders
Location
    • Smithville, 44677, Ohio

Located West side of railroad tracks of Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad & Norfolk & Western, Smithville, Ohio [1] Cincinnati business man owned plant. The J. Weller & Co. established in 1870,which had other canneries and salting factories at Oak Harbor, Mishler, Kenton, Falmouth, and Smithville, Ohio.

Quick Facts

  • 1897 - July, SMITHVILLE: Coal was found at Smithville pickle factory in digging a well.[2]
  • 1909 - Fire destroyed plant, never rebuilt [3]
  1. History of Smithville & Surrounding Area: 1776-1976 - In celebration of the American Revolution bicentennial. GENEALOGY OHIO WAYNE HISTORY SMITHVILLE, p. 39.
  2. Wooster Republican, Wooster, Ohio. 1897 July 14, p. 2.
  3. History of Smithville & Surrounding Area: 1776-1976 - In celebration of the American Revolution bicentennial. GENEALOGY OHIO WAYNE HISTORY SMITHVILLE, p. 48.