Canton Hughes Pump Company, The

Canton Hughes Pump Company, The

The Southwestern Way. Wooster Progress. 1914.
Type	Pumps
Industry	Manufacturing
Fate	Dissolved
Headquarters	Wooster, Ohio, United States
Number of locations	1
Services	Complete line of Steam Pumping Machinery consisting of Air Compressors, Automatic Feed Pumps and Receivers, Duplex Boiler Feed Pumps, Single and Compound Duplex Pumps, Hydraulic Pumps, Water Works Pumps and various other styles of Pumps.

Locations

• 0000 Unknown St., Wooster, Ohio 44691

Comprehensive History

Wooster Gets Big Factory: Pump Factory Employing Two Hundred Men Will Come From Canton

• Wooster Gets Big Factory: Pump Factory Employing Two Hundred Men Will Come From Canton

The Wooster Board of Trade on Thursday night closed a deal that will bring to Wooster the Canton Hughes Pump Co., incorporated at $_________, a concern which will employ 200 men. By the first of next January, or at least not later than the first of April, the company will have their buildings erected here and a force of 75 men at work. The contract says that the number of employees shall be gradually increased during next year, and that the full force of 200 men shall be at work on or before January 1, 1912.

Historical documents

• Wooster Progress (1914)
  • 1914 - Manufacturing

"The Canton-Hughes Pump Company had been in business for a number of years at Canton, Ohio, and moved to Wooster in October, 1911. They have erected a strictly modern and fire-proof factory which is equipped with the highest grade of machinery for building their product, and they are doing a very nice business.

This Company builds a full and complete line of Steam Pumping Machinery consisting of Air Compressors, Automatic Feed Pumps and Receivers, Duplex Boiler Feed Pumps, Single and Compound Duplex Pumps, Hydraulic Pumps, Water Works Pumps and various other styles of Pumps.

They have a very good reputation as pump builders, and their product is shipped to every state in the Union as well as to almost every foreign country. They but recently shipped a number of pumps to Australia. Recent installation of Water Works Pumps have been made at Marine City, Birmingham and Dowagiac, Mich., Findlay and Painesville, Ohio, Union City, Ind. and Marshall, Ill.

Every pump built and sold by them, or any of their agents, is fully guaranteed, and they solicit your trade.

If interested in their line, drop them a postal and catalogue will be promptly forwarded.

Timeline

• 1911 - October, Moved to Wooster, Ohio.

Gallery

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What Links Here

• Wooster Board of Trade ‎ (← links)
• File:Canton Hughes Pump Co, Wooster 0001.jpg ‎ (← links)
• Wooster: City of Progress (1914) ‎ (← links)
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• Newspaper article:Canton Hughes Pump Co WDN25Jan1913 p1 - Copy - April 17 2023 ‎ (← links)
• Newspaper article:Canton Hughes Pump Co WDN8Feb1911 p1 - April 17 2023 ‎ (← links)
• Newspaper article:Canton Hughes Pump Co WDN15Jul1910 p1 - Copy - April 17 2023 ‎ (← links)
• File:Canton Hughes Pump Co, Wooster 0002.jpg ‎ (← links)