Re: Joseph Sargent Kemp
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In reply to:
Re: Joseph Sargent Kemp
7/10/98
There were many who claim to have invented the manure spreader.J.S. Kemp
invented his in 1870 in Quebec by putting
a beater bar on an ox cart.His many patents in Canada and the United States were bought out by International Harvester
in Newark Valley and Waterloo, Iowa about 1905.Massey Harris bought the
rights to the patents of the Waterloo, Ontario factory about then too.Kemp and
Burpee in Syracuse, New York was bought
by John Deere.J.S. Kemp's family was from Lynn's End in Suffolk, England.His
father Joseph Kemp was born there.I have copies of about twenty of Joseph
Sargent Kemp's patents.Advertising always claimed his was the first "practical
manure spreader."He also held patents for a unique meat cutting block and a furnace system.One son Wesley also was
an inventor and a great one for promoting
his father's companies.Nelson Kemp another son invented Kemp's Shredders made in Erie, Pa.A third son John worked
for General Electric in Scotia, New York.
If I come across your Alexander Kemp, I'll
keep you in mind.