Does Microsoft do this electronically?
http://www.accessible.com/amcnty/PA/Crawford/Craw09.htm 1885 Agriculture Article.
"Plows possessing some of Woods improvements were manufactured in Birmingham, near Pittsburgh, and brought to this county in considerable numbers from 1824 to 1830, and probably some were made here prior to the last named date. About this time Woods agents, or the assignees of the patents, were traveling over the county collecting royalties from the farmers for using their patents. This continued to be a burden upon many in this county until 1848 49, when Hon. John W. Farrelly, an eminent lawyer of Meadville, and Member of Congress from this district, succeeded in defeating a bill introduced in the House for the extension of Woods patents on the plow. The manufacturers of Birmingham, Penn., to show their appreciation of Mr. Farrellys efforts to relieve them of this load, made and sent to him, in 1849, a plow made entirely of metal, beautifully polished. This is said to have been the first complete iron plow manufactured in this country, and was on !
exhibition at the store of John McFarland in Meadville for several months."
Fred
