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It manufactured harvesting machinery – reapers, binders, mowers and hay rakes – under the "Champion" brand name. Warder and
Bushnell managed the factories in Springfield, which covered 20 acres. The company opened a branch office in Chicago in 1865, headed by Glessner. This developed as
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its most profitable, growing along with that major city: in 1871, the
Chicago office sold about 800 machines; in 1884, it sold 25,000 machines. By 1886, the company employed more than 1,000 workers, and was exporting to foreign countries. In 1908, the 2,000,000th Champion machine was sold.
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Washington, D.C., Warder purchased some large estates in areas then considered "country" and developed them for new residential subdivisions in Northwest Washington. Four were later combined in 1908 for the neighborhood now known as
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Whitney Close. This was followed by the subdivision and development of other "country" properties in the area. These subdivisions: including
Whitney Close, Schuetzen Park, and Bellevue, were organized into a single neighborhood known as
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in a bronze sarcophagus weighing 3,500 lbs, cast by the Gorham
Manufacturing Company of Elmwood, Rhode Island. It was designed by Philip Martiny, in collaboration with architects Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge.
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He had an uncle of the same name, Benjamin H. Warder (1796-1857), Philadelphia, PA merchant; and a nephew of the same name, Benjamin H. Warder (1866-1897), buried in
Ferncliffe Cemetery, Springfield, OH.
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Warder commissioned a speculative office building, designed by architect
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In 1850 (or 1852), Benjamin Warder co-founded Warder, Brokaw & Child
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After Warder retired from business in 1886, he moved his family to
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Benjamin's grandmother Ann (Head) Warder wrote a series of journals; they mention his grandfather and father. These are now held by the
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As a memorial to his parents, Warder commissioned Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge to design a new public library for Springfield, Ohio.
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as junior partners. Senior partner Ross Mitchell retired in 1880, and the firm became Warder, Bushnell & Glessner Company.
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on January 13, 1894, while on a trip to Egypt. His body was returned to the United States, where he was buried in
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In 1920, Warder's widow donated a collection of American sculpture to the
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Elizabeth (Betsey), married Ralph Nicholson Ellis (February 15, 1906)
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Alice (1877-1952), married John W. Garrett (December 24, 1908)
477:(Chicago: A. T. Andreas Publishing Company, 1886), p. 504.
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918:List of International Harvester/Navistar engines
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373:McCormick Harvesting Machine Company
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852:International Harvester Travelette
842:International Harvester Auto-Buggy
594:Historic American Buildings Survey
555:Directory and History of Park View
450:, Heritage Center of Clark County.
412:Will of John Warder, executed 1828
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872:International Harvester Payhauler
847:International Harvester Travelall
553:Park View Citizens' Association.
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538:"Important Real Estate Sales,"
487:Casson, Herbert Newton (1908).
460:Springfield factory, circa 1900
436:Warder, Bushnell & Glessner
402:from Earlham College Libraries.
344:Pennsylvania Historical Society
308:, Springfield, Ohio (1887â90),
229:, completed the house in 1888.
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969:People from Springfield, Ohio
495:Doubleday, Page & Company
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497:. p. 24. Archived from
474:History of Chicago, Volume 3
315:Tomb of Benjamin H. Warder,
830:International Harvester 660
825:International Harvester 650
820:International Harvester 600
807:Case IH axial-flow combines
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310:Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge
250:Benjamin H. Warder died in
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857:McCormick-Deering W series
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54:Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
750:Deering Harvester Company
490:The Romance of the Reaper
471:Alfred Theodore Andreas,
438:, Glessner House website.
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371:The other companies were
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290:Benjamin Head Warder tomb
168:1830 United States Census
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642:"The Cabinet: To Rome"
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462:, Wisconsin History.
400:Warder Family Papers
120:Benjamin Head Warder
16:American businessman
881:Former subsidiaries
541:The Washington Post
317:Rock Creek Cemetery
256:Rock Creek Cemetery
196:William N. Whiteley
85:Rock Creek Cemetery
791:Benjamin H. Warder
650:. August 12, 1929.
578:Dayton Daily News.
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672:Warder Tomb
660:Warder Tomb
627:October 27,
599:October 27,
505:October 27,
953:Categories
862:M5 tractor
387:References
217:Retirement
96:Occupation
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104:Signature
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570:Archived
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911:Furthur
812:Farmall
156:Quakers
75:, Egypt
759:People
282:Legacy
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174:Career
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158:from
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