| After
Arriving from grand detour Deere's family numbering 8 moved in with
Tate. A third partner Mr . Gould, friends from Grand Detour joined
the Deere Tate partnership. Which of the two partners, Tate or Gould
had the idea of dissolving the partnership, history shows that both
men had other plans. Mr Gould had been thinking of a factory making
wooden ware, tubs, pails,churns, etc as the pine logs were floating
right past here and everything is convenient The pail factory was
soon a successful operation. The new operation Dimock & Gould
still stands near where it originally was built next to Moline Consumers
materials at the foot of the I74 bridge. Mr. Tate opted for competition
with Deere forming a full line plow company with Charles Buford.
Doing business as Buford & Tate. |
