Illinois Inventors & Some other Firsts To see patent applications and diagrams: Go to the Patent Page and type or copy/paste the numeric patent number in bold into the Query box. Click the Search button. On the next page, click on the Images button. When the Patent appears, scroll thru the pages. The number of pages of diagrams and other documents for each patent appears at the top of the page (1 of 4, etc.).

Browse Inventors By County Adams Bureau Champaign Christian Cook Crawford DeKalb DeWitt Douglas DuPage Ford Fulton Henry Jackson Iroquois Jasper Jefferson Jersey Kane Kankakee Knox Lake LaSalle Lawrence Livingston Logan Macon Macoupin Madison Massac McHenry McLean Mercer Montgomery Morgan Moultrie Ogle Peoria Perry Pope Pulaski Richland RockIsland Sangamon Shelby St. Clair Stephenson Vermilion Tazewell Wabash Washington Warren Whiteside Will Winnebago Woodford

Aledo Alton Arcola Aurora Batavia Belleville Bloomington Butler Canton Carbery Carbon Cliff Chicago Clinton Cushman Daysville Decatur Dekalb Downers Grove Evanston

Evanston Dwight Eddyville Elgin El Paso Elwin Englewood Eureka Evanston Freeport Galesburg Grand DeTour Gridley Grove City Harlem Harvard

Hudson Hillsborough Hoopeston Hudson Hutsonville Iroquois Irving Park Jacksonville Jerseyville Joliet Kankakee Kensington Kewanee La Salle LaGrange Lebanon

Lincoln Litchfield Lukin Mackinaw Metropolis Millersville Modesto Moline Monmouth Mt. Carmel Mt. Vernon Mt. Zion Mound City Murphysborough Newton Palestine

Park Ridge Newton New Windsor Normal Okawville Olney Ottawa Palestine Park Ridge Peoria Perryton Peru Pinckneyville Princeton Pullman

Quincy Rockford Rock Falls st. Charles Sidney Springfield Sterling Streator Sycamore Taylorville Tuscola Tylersville Utica Virden Waukegan

Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
	1853	Tylersville (Unknown county)	Brown, George	George Brown (Tylersville, Illinois) patents a series of innovative planter patents starting in 1853, and into the 1860s : Furrows that open with edged runners; corn 'precisely placed under the control of an operator; and a closing wheel that covers seeds automatically and in check to allow for cultivating in both directions. Brown s is the first successful horse-drawn, two-row pull-type planter, with manual stick-type metering. (A hand lever and seat on the front part of the machine allow a second operator to mechanically drop the seed.) In 1858, Brown improves his planter by adding a shoe or furrow opener to break open the ground for the seed; he further improves it in 1860 by curving the shoes to better open the furrow. Kinze History of Planting
Adams County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 320855	June 23, 1885	Pullman	Decker, Cornelius and Trombly, Alexander	Car-Axle
		Quincy	Fisk, James	Wire-Fence Machine
Patent No. 321359	June 30, 1885	Quincy	Harrop, Joseph M. and Ash, Joseph	Fence-Making Machine
		Quincy	Stahl, G. H.	machine for loading cartridges
Patent No. 320703 and 320704	June 23, 1885	Quincy	Schmitt, Phillip L. and Peerless Oil Ejector Company	Lubricator
Patent No. 315738		Quincy	Cooper, William H.	Flue-Cleaner for Steam-Boiler
Patent 320538	June 23, 1885	Quincy	Hanna, Robert W. and Cabell, Milton S.	Steam Machinery Lubricator
Patent No. 320854	June 23, 1885	Quincy	Curtis, Charles R. S.	Fire-Escape and Elevator
Bureau County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Trademark Reg. #48847	circa 1st used 9/15/1903	Princeton	Cusic, Marshall M.	Hairilla (removal of superfluous hair)
Champaign County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 320983	June 30, 1885	Sidney	Temple, Winfield Scott	Car-Coupling
Christian County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 321735	July 7, 1885	Grove City	Lindsly, James Melvern	Nut-Lock
Patent No. 320153	June 16, 1885	Millersville	Miller, Sylvester J.	Portable stacking-frame
Trademark Reg. #73834	1908	Taylorville	E-Z Opener Bag Company	Marvel paper bags
Cook County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
	1883	Chicago	Mayer, Oscar F.; Mayer, Gottfried; Mayer, Max	Oscar F. Mayer and his brothers Gottfried and Max started a meat market in Chicago. By 1906, Oscar Mayer® is one of the first meatpackers to obtain the Federal Meat Inspection stamp of approval. Business had become so good that, instead of hand-carrying large orders to customers' homes in the neighborhood (as most meat markets customarily did), the Mayer's made their deliveries by horse-drawn wagons to all of Chicago - and its suburbs. In 1904, when some of the largest packing houses were still selling their own meats anonymously, the Mayer's took the bold step of affixing a brand name to their products. In 1924, it introduced packaged sliced bacon, for which it received a U.S. patent. And in 1929 (a year after Oscar F. Mayer was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors and his son, Oscar G. Mayer, named company President), Oscar Mayer & Co. began wrapping its wieners with a yellow paper band. This made OSCAR MAYER® Wieners recognizable at a time when most wieners were sold in bulk, without any packaging, from a display box. The yellow band was applied by hand, and bore the company name and U.S. government inspection stamp. In 1936, "Little Oscar and the WIENERMOBILE" started the advertising campaign for Oscar Mayer & Co. In 1963, the famous "wiener jingle" first appeared in Oscar Mayer commercials. General Foods Corp. bought Oscar Mayer & Co. in 1981.
	1919	Chicago		eggbeater made in Chicago
Patent No. 320644	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Fillmann, Emil	Molding manufacturing for less
Patent No. 320622	June 23, 1885	Chicago (Cook County)added 1/05/07	Brown, Aaron L.	Temporary Binder
	1910	Chicago	Sirrine, Earnest	Automatic Traffic System - Earnest Sirrine of Chicago, Illinois patented (976,939) perhaps the first automatic street traffic system in 1910. Sirrine's system used the non-illuminated words "stop" and "proceed".
Patent No. 315707	April 14, 1885	Chicago	Briggs, Orlando P.	Machine for Uncoiling Wire
Patent No. 315715	April 14, 1885	Chicago	Bush, Lewis, Jr.	Saw-Sharpening Machine
Patent No. #2,320,027	May 25, 1943	Chicago	Bradberry, Henrietta Mahim	Bed Rack - Henrietta Mahim Bradberry of Chicago, Illinois patented a bed rack, which was an attachment to the bed that permitted air to pass through and refreshen worn clothes. Device operated pneumatically and was adapted to discharge torpedoes under the water surface. May 25, 1943 - [Source: African American Women Inventors]
Patent No. 320457	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Byrne, Joseph	Bottle-Stopper
	1888	Chicago	Wright, William	Chicago - Calumet Baking Soda - In 1888 at age thirty-seven, salesman William Wright took his life savings of $3,500 and plunged it into developing his own baking soda. After much experimentation to differentiate his product from others, Wright tried adding egg white to the formula. It worked. By the next year, the production and sale of Calumet Baking Powder was a six-man operation....The company incorporated in Illinois in 1892
Patent No. 320357	June 16, 1885	Chicago	Crosby, William F. and Huber, Jacob (of Ohio)	Wrench
	1831	Chicago	McCormick, Cyrus	Cyrus McCormick of Virginia was responsible for liberating farm workers from hours of back-breaking labor by introducing the farmers to his newly invented mechanical reaper in July, 1831. By 1847, Cyrus McCormick began the mass manufacture of his reaper in a Chicago factory, founding what eventually became the International Harvester Company. He is known as the "Father of Modern Agriculture"
Patent No. 318946	June 2, 1885	Chicago	Bowbin, John and Croker, Michael H.	Device for Removing Window-Sash From Frames
Patent No. 318952	June 2, 1885	Chicago	Bush, Jr., Lewis	Bush, Jr., Lewis and American Machinery Company  Tool for Dressing Emery-Wheels
Patent No. 320338	June 16, 1886	Chicago	Dawson, William G.	Device for Converting Reciprocating Into Rotary Motion
Patent No. 321348	June 30, 1885	Chicago	Dunshee, Carlos E.	Lumber-Piler
Patent No. 320241	June 16, 1886	Chicago	Durkee, George B. and Golding, John F.	Machine for Making Slashed Metallic Screening
Patent No. 320242	June 16, 1885	Chicago	Durkee, George B. and Golding, John F.	Process of Making Slashed Metallic Screening
	1910	Chicago	Bendix, Vincent	Electric Starter - In 1910, Vincent Bendix patented the Bendix drive for electric starters, an improvement to the hand cranked starters of the time. The first automobile to use the Bendix starter drive was the 1914 Chevrolet "Baby Grand". The Bendix starter became a standard in all cars produced in the United States.
	1869	Chicago	Gray, Elisha	Chicago - Elisha Gray invented a number of telegraphic devices and in 1869 was one of two partners who founded what became Western Electric Company. Here's an extract from Elisha Gray's Patent Caveat filed on February 14, 1876: To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, Elisha Gray, of Chicago, in the County of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented a new art of transmitting vocal sounds telegraphically, of which the following is a specification: It is the object of my invention to transmit the tones of the human voice through a telegraphic circuit, and reproduce them at the receiving end of the line, so that actual conversations can be carried on by persons at long distances apart. ...... On February 14, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent application was filed at the United States Patent Office; Elisha Gray's attorney filed a caveat for a telephone just a few hours later. Bell was awarded the patent. When Bell first transmitted the sound of a human voice over a wire, he used a liquid transmitter of the microphone type previously developed by Gray which was unlike any described in Bell's patent applications to that date, and an electromagnetic metal-diaphragm receiver of the kind built and publicly used by Gray several months earlier.
Patent No. 318973	June 2, 1885	Chicago	Fentno, John H.	Animal-Guard
Patent No. 322177	1885	Chicago	Goode, Sarah E.	Folding Cabinet Bed - Sarah E. Goode was the first African American women to receive a U.S. patent, #322,177, which was issued on July 14, 1885. She was a business woman and inventor. Goode invented the folding cabinet bed, a space-saver that folded up against the wall into a cabinet. When folded up, it could be used as a desk, complete with compartments for stationery and writing supplies. Goode owned a furniture store in Chicago, Illinois, and invented the bed for people living in small apartments. Goode's patent was the first one obtained by an African-American woman inventor (patent #322,177, approved on July 14, 1885) [Source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml]
	1925	Chicago	Hall, Lloyd Augustus	Food Preservation Processes - 1925 - An industrial food chemist, Lloyd Augustus Hall revolutionized the meatpacking industry with his development of curing salts for the processing and reserving of meats. He developed a technique of "flash-driving" (evaporating) and a technique of sterilization with ethylene oxide which is still used by medical professionals today. Born in Elgin, Illinois on June 20, 1894, and raised in Aurora, Illinois,. Hall invented new ways to preserve food. In 1925, Hall was the chief chemist and director of research at Griffith Laboratories and it was there that Hall invented his processes for preserving meat using sodium chloride and nitrate and nitrite crystals..... Hall also pioneered the use of antioxidants [Source: Read more here: http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/hall2.html]
Patent No. 320126	June 16, 1885	Chicago	Gates, Ryerson D.	Pulverizing Machine
Patent No. 320127	June 16, 1885	Chicago	Giles, Charles K.	Dust-Proof Case for Watches
Patent No. 320905	June 30, 1885	Chicago	Alsip, Frank and Drake, Chester T.	Clay-Crushing Machine
Patent No. 320911	June 30, 1885	Chicago	Cadwell, Lydia J.	Apparatus for Treating the Products of Rendering-Tanks
Patent No. 320240	June 16, 1885	Chicago	Golden, John F.	Process of Making Metallic Screening Material
Patent No. 320241	June 16, 1885	Chicago	Golding, John F. and Durkee, George B.	Machine for Making Slashed Metallic Screening
Patent No. 320242		Chicago	Golding, John F. and Durkee, George B.	Process of Making Slashed Metallic Screening
Patent No. 318982		Chicago	Gross, Henry	Permutation-Lock
Patent No. 320355		Chicago	Haggett, George W. (with Cook, John A. of Englewood, Ill.)	Tag-Holder for Railroad-Cars
Patent No. 318988		Chicago	Hubka, Frank and Hubka, Anton	Window-Screen
	1885	Chicago	Jenney, William LeBaron	Chicago - In 1885 - The first skyscraper is constructed in Chicago William LeBaron Jenney, architect, engineer, teacher, and landscape and urban designer, is credited with the invention of the steel frame building, making possible the skyscraper - the Home Insurance Building in Chicago. It was completed in 1885, was 138 feet high, and 10 stories tall and was the first tall building to be supported by a metal skeleton of vertical columns and horizontal beams. It was demolished in 1931.
	1893	Chicago		Issued by Postmaster General John Wanamaker in 1893. The controversial first commemorative stamps were the Columbian Exposition Issue. issued to commemorate the World Columbian Exposition held in Chicago, Illinois, from May 1 to October 30, 1893. The stamps celebrated the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's voyage to the New World. [Read more: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blmailus7.htm]
	1914	Omaha, Nebraska (later moved to Chicago)		Kool-Aid - The powdered drink Kool-Aid was invented in 1927 by the chemist Edwin Perkins of Nebraska Omaha. Perkins started a company in 1914 that sold perfume and calling cards; it was called the Perkins Products Company. Originally located in Hendley, Nebraska, they moved to Hastings, Nebraska (about 90 miles west of Lincoln) in 1920, and expanded their product line to include spices, medicines, more toilet preparations, and other household items. Kool-Aid was originally a liquid called "Fruit Smack," and was sold in a 4-ounce bottles. It was later renamed Kool-Ade (and later, Kool-Aid), and sold in powdered form in packets. The seven original Kool-Aid flavors were: Cherry, Lemon-Lime, Grape, Orange, Root Beer, Strawberry, and Raspberry. The Kool-Aid factory later moved to Chicago, Illinois, and was bought by General Foods Corporation in 1953.[source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1900a.shtml]
Patent No. 320483		Chicago	Lindle, Joseph	Combined water cooler and filter
Patent No. 320484		Chicago	Lindle, Joseph	Water-Cooler and Refrigerator
Patent No. 320567		Chicago	Lord, Andrew H.; Hitchcock, Charles H.; Cooper, John A	Tile-Setting
	1903	Chicago	Kraft, J. L.	Mass-production of Cheese - In 1903, J.L. Kraft started a wholesale cheese business in Chicago. By 1914, J.L. Kraft & Bros. Co. opened their first cheese factory in Stockton, Illinois, within a year they begin producing process cheese in tins.
Patent No. 320570	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Marcus, Joseph	Windmill
Patent No. 319005		Chicago	Mehring, George	Fuel-Magazine for Steam-Generators
	1930	Chicago		Outdoor Games Company - Pinball - - ? - - In 1930 -
Patent No. 320390		Chicago	Pedersen, Sigward and Sernendinger, Thomas (of Pennsylvania)	Safety Device for Railway-Cars
Patent No. 320587	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Rathknecht, Victor	Nursery Chair and Carriage
Patent No. 321055	June 30, 1885	Chicago	Robinson, William	Sash-Fastener
Patent No. 321057	June 30, 1885	Chicago	Scribner, Charles E. (Assignor to the Western Electric Company)	Multiple Switch-Board System
Patent No. 321062	June 30, 1885	Chicago	Tideman, Sven (assignor to Edmund D. Barry of Grand Rapids MI)	Mechanical Movement
	1928	Chicago	Joyner, Marjorie	Permanent Wave Machine - Marjorie Joyner was granted a patent for a permanent wave machine which could wave the hair of both white and African-American people. November 27,1928 Patent #1,693,515 [Source: "African American Women Inventors"]
Patent No. 320312		Chicago	Thayer, John C.	Attachment for Lubricators
Patent No. 966677	1908	Chicago	Fisher, Alva J.	The first electric-powered washing machine (the Thor) was introduced in 1908, by the Hurley Machine Company of Chicago, Illinois. Alva J. Fisher was the inventor. The machine was a drum type with a galvanized tub and an electric motor, for which a patent was issued on Aug. 9, 1910 (US patent #966677 - see patent drawing HERE). [Interesting history of washing machines at http://www.borax.com/pioneer26.html]
Patent No. 320195		Chicago	Valk, Henry	Window-Sash
Patent No. 320515		Chicago	Van DePoele, charles J.	Electro-Magnetic Reciprocating Engine
	1893	Chicago	Judson, Whitcomb L.	Whitcomb L. Judson, a Chicago inventor with dozens of patents, invented the a metal zipper device with locking teeth in 1890. Judson patented his "clasp-locker'' On August 29, 1893, Judson received a patent for his "clasp-locker," a somewhat reliable hook and eye fastener. Later in 1893, he exhibited this new invention at the Chicago World's Fair. He never succeeded in marketing his new device. The zipper was improved by the Swedish-American engineer, Gideon Sundbach, and was named by the B.F. Goodrich company in 1923. Judson died in 1909, before his device became commonly used and well known. [Source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml]
Patent No. 319047		Chicago	Adcock, Edmund	Fire Extension-Ladder
Patent No. 320567	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Lord, Andrew  assignor to Hithcock, Charles H and Cooper, John A.	Tile-Setting tool
Patent No. 321025	June 30, 1885	Chicago	Hayes, Martin P. (and one half to Joseph M. Duncan of Warsaw, New York)	Evaporating Apparatus for Brine, etc.
Patent No. 319030		Chicago	Ross, George P.	Glove Fastener
	1893	Chicago	Wrigley, William, Jr.	Wrigley Juicy Fruit Gum - 1893 - Wrigley Juicy Fruit and Spearmint brands introduced. In 1914, Wrigley Doublemint brand was created. William Wrigley, Jr. and Henry Fleer were responsible for adding the popular mint and fruit extracts to a chicle chewing gum.
Trademark Reg. #11408	circa June 16, 1884	Chicago	Senour Manufacturing Company	Monarch Mixed Paint
Patent No. 320743	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Ames, Albert C.	Traction-Engine
Trademark Reg. #12857	circa December 15, 1885	Chicago	N. K. Fairbank & Company	Fairy Soap
Trademark Reg. #20175	circa July 30, 1891	Chicago		Nelson Morris & Co Matchless Brand Extra Sugar Cured Hams (became Armour)
Patent No. 320685	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Porter, Henry B.	Electric Bell
Patent No. 320618	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Boyle, David	Apparatus for Attemperating or Cooling Beer
Patent No. 320789	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Housley, Daniel W.	Spring-Hinge
Patent No. 320676	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Ott, William	Sofa-Bed
Patent No. 320833	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Anderson, Edward	Automatic Cradle-Rocker
Patent No. 320921	June 30, 1885	Chicago	Tubman, William and Schumacher, William	Compound for Insulating Electric Wires
Patent No. 320837	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Boyington, Levi C.	Folding Bed
Patent No. 320838	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Brainard, Adelbert M.	Generator for Hydrocarbon-Vapor Burners
Patent No. 320515	June 23, 1885	Chicago	Van DePoele, Charles J.	Electro-Magnetic Reciproacting Engine
Patent No. 321363	June 30, 1885	Chicago	Hurlbut, Daniel N.	Means for Driving Electrical Conductors into Conduits
Patent No. 321390	June 30, 1885	Chicago	Scribner, Charles E.	Duplicate Switch-Board System for Telephones  (Patented in England Nov. 29, 1879, and France Jan. 18, 1880 and in Belgium January 18, 1888)
Patent No. 321420	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Culver, Arthur T. and Parkhurst, Josiah J.	Horseshoe-bar
Patent No. 321427	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Elmes, Charles F.	Rolling-Mill
Patent No. 321518	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Moore, Edwards Y.	Sliding-Door Fixture
Patent No. 321529	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Rate, Edward F.	Husking-Glove
Patent No. 321533	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Richardson, George W and Shepard, Jason H. and Tawler, Willard A.	Dumping-Wagon Bottom
Patent No. 321546	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Steck, Ernst  - The Fire Extinguisher Manufacturing Company	Vehicle-Brake
Patent No. 321553	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Warner, James C. - Western Electric Company	Spring-Jack Switch
Patent No. 321615	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Letter, George Albert	Socket for Twist-Drills
Patent No. 321728	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Jamieson, George	Safety-Guard and Work-Holder for Edge-Molding Machines
Patent No. 321731	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Lee, J. Edward	Display Box and Package for Laces
Patent No. 321732	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Lee, J. Edward	Handkerchief
Patent No. 321736	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Mason, Henry and Hildreth, James H.; Riordan, John; and Trowbridge, W. E. S.	Fuel-Injector for Furnaces
Patent No. 321742	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Miller, Albert F. and the Burr Bed Company	Bedstead
Patent No. 321745	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Nelson, Oliver R.	Hydraulic Press Attachment
Patent No. 321783	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Blades, Leonard J.	Ticket-Case
Patent No. 321816	July  7, 1885	Chicago	Housley, Daniel W.	Tilting Chair
Patent No. 321829	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Mackley, Henry and Ross, Joseph B.	Non-Siphoning Attachment for Closet and Other Traps
Patent No. 321877	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Abell, Joshua L.	Strainer for Liquids
Patent No. 321893	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Gross, Henry	Time-Lock
Patent No. 321911	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Powers, David J. to the Union Wire Mattress Company	Folding Bed
Patent No. 321912	July 7, 1885	Chicago	Powers, David	Folding Bed
Patent No. 321951	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Culver, Fitz E.	Furnace-Grate
Patent No. 321957	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Enoch, John	Halter
Patent No. 321933	July 14, 1885	Chicago	McRoberts, Mortimer	Lantern
Patent No. 322019	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Spencer, George H.	Grapple
Patent No. 322031	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Wixon, Howard and Menard, George	Box-Pulling Attachment
Patent No. 322056	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Geier, John Leo and Rendtorff, Hermann	Apparatus for Crystallizing Tin-Plate
Patent No. 322257	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Chase, Henry I. and Chase, Philander F. and Chase, Henry G.	Process of Drying Grain
Patent No. 322264	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Dicey, Elmer C.	Cut-Off-Valve Gear
Patent No. 322065	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Norton, Edwain and Norton, Oliver W.	Soldering-Machine
Patent No. 322177	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Goode, Sarah E.	Cabinet-Bed
Patent No. 322212	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Thomas, Nicholas	Lathe for Turning Cross-Head Pins
Patent No. 322282	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Hall, Samuel L.	Baker's Oven
Patent No. 322287	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Herrmann, Henry and Doolittle, William B.	Street-Bridge for Fire-Hose
Patent No. 322309	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Miehle, Robert	Printing-Machine
Patent No. 322402	July 14, 1885	Chicago	Tierney, Catharine A.	Guide for Use in Cutting Garments
Patent No. 322417	July 21, 1885	Chicago	Byrne, John J.	Thermostat for Fire-Alarms
Patent No. 322436	July 21, 1885	Chicago	Ganser, Nicolas H.	Billiard-Table
		Evanston	Pajeau, Charles	Charles Pajeau invented Tinkertoy Construction Sets. Pajeau was a stonemason from Evanston, Illinois who established The Toy Tinkers company. Nearly one million sets were sold in the year following the introduction of Tinkertoys at the 1913 American Toy Fair in New York. Pajeau was inspired by watching children poke sticks into the holes of thread spools.
Patent No. 320355		Englewood	Cook, John A. (with Haggett, George W. of Chicago)	Tag-Holder for Railroad-Cars
		Englewood	Bason, Thomas	floor-latch
Patent No. 321433	July 7, 1885	Englewood	Goff, Francis C.	Coffin
Patent No. 321469	July 7, 1885	Irving Park	Wilson, Samuel R.	Needle-Threader for Sewing-Machines
Patent No. 319019		Kensington	Peelman, Albano F.	Combined Saw-set and Nail -Punch
Patent No. 321076	June 30, 1885	LaGrange	Baldwin, Myrton T.	Infant's Posing-Chair
		Park Ridge	Encap Development Company	Born and died in Schuyler County but company was in Park Ridge, Illinois. All I have is that he started Encap Development Company which developed the "Chia Pet".
Crawford County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
		Hutsonville	Coon, A. C.	wrench
Patent No. 319174		Palestine	Beam, Henry T.	Car-Couupling
DeKalb County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Trademark Patent #157,124	1874	DeKalb	Glidden, Joseph and Kelly, Michael	BARBED WIRE. United States Patent #157,124 was granted to Joseph Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois on November 24th, 1874 for improved barbed wire fencing. Nine patents for improvements to wire fencing were granted by the U.S. Patent Office to American inventors, beginning with Michael Kelly in November 1868 and ending with Joseph Glidden in November 1874. The new fencing not only simplified the work of the rancher and farmer, but it significantly affected political, social, and economic practices throughout the region. [Source and more info here: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbarbed_wire.htm]
Patent No. 321511	July 7, 1885	Sycamore	Marsh, William W. and Blood, Maurice E.	Grain-Binding Harvester
DeWitt County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
		Clinton	R.W. MCCLELLAND	running gear
Douglas County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 322246	July 14, 1885	Arcola	Boyle, William C.	Wagon Running-Gear
	1880	Tuscola	Gurelle, Johnny	Raggedy Ann and Andy, created In 1880
DuPage County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Trademark Reg. #84224	circa 1910	Downers Grove	Turtle Flexible Steel Lacing Co.	metallic belt-fasteners
Patent No. 320984	July 14, 1885	Downers Grove	Anderson, Charles and Farrar, Eugene W.	Combined Screen and Storm Door
Ford County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 320984	June 30, 1885	Carbery	Theis, Leonard	Cultivator Attachment
Fulton County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
	1842	Canton	Parlin, William	Another skilled blacksmith, William Parlin, at Canton, Illinois, began making plows about 1842, which he loaded upon a wagon and peddled through the country.
Henry County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
		Kewanee		corn huskers made in Chicago and Kewanee in the late 1800s/early 1900s
Iroquois County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 321898	July 7, 1885	Iroquois	Humphreys, James W.	Ditching-Plow
Jackson County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No.320671	June 23, 1885	Murphysborough	McGovern, John and Jeffrey, Peter	Caisson or Crib
Jasper County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
		Newton	Johnsons, J. B.	plant-tray
Jefferson County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 320472		Mt. Vernon	Hill, William	Latch and Lock Combined
Jersey County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 320545	June 23, 1885	Jerseyville	Doughton, Andrew	filtering-tank
Kane County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Trademark Reg. #89323	1890	Aurora	John Calvin Loos, Jr.	American Well Works deep-well pumps, etc.      "Since its founding as American Well Works in 1868, AMWELLý has written a history of uninterrupted service to the water and wastewater treatment industry."      A copy of the factory blueprints from 1897 owned by the Aurora Historical Society is online, compliments of the Aurora Public Library. Harvard University graduate, John Calvin Loos, Jr., was one of the AWW engineers.      At least one of the city wells in El Paso, Ill., was drilled in 1882 by American Well Works. 34. FIRST COMMERCIAL GAS WELL SITE.  In 1870 natural gas was accidentally discovered near this spot (in Shreveport, Louisisana,) by American Well Works, which was digging a 961 foot water well for the Shreveport Ice Plant. Gas from the well was used to light the plant and is the first known commercial use of natural gas in Louisiana. (90 Market Street)  http://www.shreveport.net/sites/historic/downtown.html      American Well Works is a part of history elsewhere such as the City of South Bend Water Works North Pumping Station historical landmark.  The pumping station was drilled by American Well Works.      An American Well Works patent law suit continues to be sudied as a landmark legal case. American Well Works rigs manufactured in the 1890's played a lesser role in the history of the petroleum industry.
Patent No. 322416	July 14, 1885	Aurora	Burkel, Peter	Circular Toy Bowling-Alley
Patent No. 321045	June 30, 1885	Batavia	Mole, John G.	Metallic Grinding-Ring
Trademark Reg. #47058,	First used 1886	Elgin	Black Leaf Products Co.
Trademark Reg. #50094	1874	Elgin		Elgin National Watch Co.
Trademark Reg. #48942	circa first used 1/1/1895	St. Charles	St. Charles Condensing Co.	Purity Condensed Milk
Kankakee County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 322213	July 14, 1885	Kankakee	Ubellar, James L.	Hat and Bonnet Fastener
Knox County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
		Galesburg	Brown, George W.	Corn Planter
Lake County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 3200921	June 30, 1885	Waukegan	Ferguson, Robert S. (alon gwith Schumacher, William and Tubman, William of Chicago)	Compound for Insulating Electric Wires
LaSalle County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Trademark Reg. #72178,	circa 1908	La Salle	Western Clock Mfg Co	Big Ben - clocks and watches
Patent No. 320876	June 23, 1885	Ottawa	Jordan, Richard C.	Hay-Carrier
Trademark Reg. #79089	circa 1910	Peru	Western Clock Mfg Co clocks	Monitor
Patent No. 320136		Streator	Iwan, Henry and Iwan, Louis	Tile-Ditching Hoe
Patent No. 320815	June 23, 1885	Streater	Powers, George W. and Jones, James Herbert and Powers, James M.	Chimney-Cowl
Patent No. 320951	June 30, 1885	Streater	Modes, William F.	Regenerating and Reverberating Glass Furnace
	1911	Utica		In 1911 - Starved Rock State Park becomes the first state park in Illinois.
Lawrence County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 320492	June 23, 1885	Lukin	Moore, Samuel M.	Animal Poke
Livingston County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 321639	July 7, 1885	Dwight	Reeb, Charles	Knot-Tyer for Grain-Binders
Logan County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
		Lincoln	Rankin, E., Jr.	harrow
Macon County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Trademark Reg. #55577	circa 1st used 1878	Decatur	A. E. Staley Manufacturing	Cream (starch for food purposes)
Trademark Reg. #30910	circa Nov 30, 1897	Decatur		H. Mueller Manufacturing Company
Patent No. 321013	June 30, 1885	Decatur	Faries, Robert	Machine for Forming Interlocking-Eyes
Patent No. 320673	June 23, 1885	Elwin	Montgomery, James H.	Check-rower for Corn-Planters
Patent No. 321945	July 14, 1885	Mt. Zion	Booth, Erastus L.	Buggy-Top
Patent No. 321945	July 14, 1885	Mt. Zion	Booth, Erastus L.	Spring Attachment for Carriage-Bows
Macoupin County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
	1892	Modesto	Mills, J. M.	- a device used to de-horn cattle manufactured in Modesto by J.M. Mills in 1892.
Patent No. 322352	July 14, 1885	Virden	Cox, William H.	Gate
Madison County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 321047	June 30, 1885	Alton	Van Blarcom, William D. (assignee by Charles Alfred Norling of St. Louis, MO)	Machine for Manufacturing Fences
Massac County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 320588	June 23, 1885	Metropolis	Rhoads, Solomon J.	Flower-Pot
McDonough County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 321972	July 14, 1885	Adair	Hunter, Joseph H.	Hand Water-Pumping Mill
McHenry County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
		Harvard	Burbank, A. J.	Hay Truck
Patent No. 327111	July 8, 1885	Harvard	Wooster, William I.	Means for Controlling Windmills
McLean County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Trademark Reg. #29592	circa February 23, 1897	Bloomington		Wishbone (became Thomas J. Lipton) J. F. Humphreys & Company
Trademark Reg. #79547	circa 1910	Bloomington	Paul F. Beich Company	Epicure
		Bloomington	Abraham Lincoln	Abe Lincoln was the only U.S. president to be issued a patent for his 1849 design of a device to help buoy vessels over shallow waters --- a device which was never manufactured. On April 6, 1858, Lincoln gave his first lecture on "Discoveries and Inventions" before the Young Men's Association of Bloomington, Illinois. In 1859 he delivered it at Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. He repeated the lecture in Decatur, Springfield, and Pontiac, but turned down future requests, saying, "I am not a professional lecturer. Have never got up but one lecture; and that I think, a rather poor one." His law partner, William H. Herndon, recalled Lincoln's work on the project. "He began preparation in the usual way by noting down ideas on stray pieces of paper, which found a lodgment inside his hat, and finally brought forth in connected form a lecture." But unlike his political speeches and courtroom presentations, the lecture lacked life. Herndon said, "he delivered it at several towns in the central part of the State, but it was so commonplace, and met with such indifferent success, that he soon dropped it altogether."
	1857	Bloomington	E. R. Roe	Received a patent for improvement in mechanism for operating railroad car brakes. Granted the week ending August 11, 1857
		Bloomington		Pennock's Patent Seed Drills - Rock Island advertised in the Weekly Pantagraph in Bloomington in 1857 (McLean County). This machine will plant wheat, rye, Indian corn, oats, peas, beans, rutabagas, and turnips; and can be regulated to drop any required quantity on an acre. The drills can be thrown in or out of gear separately, so as to plant a field of any shape without seeding any part twice. They are so arranged as to operate equally well on all kinds of land hilly and rough, as well as level and smooth. A man, with two horses, can put in from 10 to 12 acres with wheat in a day, and, with one horse, he can plant 20 acres with corn per day Pennock & Co., Kennett Square, Chester Co., Penn.
		Hudson	Dement, Robert H.	car brake
Patent No. 319168	July 14, 1885	Gridley	Burky, Joseph	Windmill
	1867	Normal	Warden, John	washing machine
Mercer County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
	1864	Aledo	Ramsay, John and Thompson, John	John Ramsay and John Thompson, Aledo, Illinois inventors, use a knotted wire rather than a chain to activate the seeding mechanism. (Additional patents refining and improving check row planting devices are later assigned to W.W. Hubbard, of Edinburg, IN (1864); G.D. Haworth (1870); and Aldon Barnes, of Bloomington, IL (1872 & 1877)
Patent No. 319168		New Windsor	Bachus, James Washington	Window-Screen
Patent No. 320465		Perryton	Daxon, Samuel Richard	Machine for measuring and elevating grain
Montgomery County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 322243	July 14, 1885	Butler	Betty, Alonzo A.	Sulky-Plow
Patent No. 320750	June 23, 1885	Hillsborough	Bell, Adam H.	Bundle-Dropper for harvesters
Patent No. 320750	July 7, 1885	Litchfield	Champe, James Monroe	Churn
Patent No. 322249	July 14, 1885	Litchfield	Brokaw, Isaac and Butler, Wesley	Straw-Stacker
Morgan County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
		Jacksonville	Black, Dr. Greene Vardiman	Father of Modern Dentistry - the first to use Nitrous Oxide while extracting teeth. Invented a cord-driven dental engine, invented and patented a foot motor; perfected the use of amalgram for fillings. Practiced in Jacksonville, IL.
	1892	Jacksonville		The Hall Braille typewriter (also called a Braillewriter or Brailler) was invented in 1892 by Frank Haven Hall, who was the Superintendent of the Illinois Institution for the Blind. The Hall Braille typewriter was manufactured by the Harrison & Seifried company in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Hall introduced his invention on May 27, 1892, at Jacksonville, Illinois. [Source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml]
Moultrie County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 321821	July 7, 1885	Cushman	Kenney, Martin V. B.	Hay-Derrick
Ogle County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 322430	July 21, 1885	Daysville	Edmonds, Elijah L.	Railroad-Alarm
	1837	Grand DeTour	Deere, John	John Deere was an Illinois blacksmith and manufacturer. In 1837, John Deere designed the first cast steel plow. The large plows made for cutting the tough prairie ground were called "grasshopper plows." The plow was made of wrought iron and had a steel share that could cut through sticky soil without clogging. By 1855, John Deere's factory was selling over 10,000 steel plows a year. In 1868, John Deere's business was incorporated as Deere & Company, which is still in existence today. [Read more at this website: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bldeere.htm] .... Read more about John Deere on our Rock Island website at http://genealogytrails.com/ill/rockisland/pioneersfolder/johndeere.html
Peoria County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 320535	June 23, 1885	Peoria	Brown, DeLoss S. and Sipf, Louis	Combined beer and spirit still
	1897	Peoria	Duryea, Charles E. and Duryea, J. Frank	- Charles E. and J. Frank Duryea, brothers, are known as the "Fathers of the American Automobile Industry". They are the inventors who are credited with being two of the originators of the automobile, and also founders of the short lived Duryea Company (1897-1900) which produced their horseless carriages. PEORIA, ILLINOIS USA - 1897 through 1900 Estimated production at this time - less than 20 cars
	1941	Peoria	Ag Lab	The "Ag Lab" in Peoria has contributed many discoveries/inventions...their main claim to fame is discovering a way to mass-produce penicillin in 1941. The "Ag Lab" in Peoria has contributed many discoveries/inventions...their main claim to fame is discovering a way to mass-produce penicillin in 1941. This is an excerpt from the website: http://www.lib.niu.edu "The NCAUR, more commonly known to Peorians as the "Ag Lab," was first authorized by Congress as part of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.... One of NCAUR's most renowned discoveries is the commercial production process of penicillin. In 1928 British scientist Alexander Fleming discovered a mold, identified later as penicillium notatum, with great bacteria-killing abilities. Scientists soon realized that this wonder mold would be a promising antibiotic if it could be produced in quantity. In 1941 British scientists Howard Florey and Norman Heatley joined other researchers at the Peoria facility. Scientists of NCAUR quickly started investigating the mold penicillium. Andrew Moyer, an expert on molds, soon increased the yields of penicillin tenfold with non-alcoholic corn steep liquor. Still not satisfied, Moyer added milk sugar to penicillium and grew the mold in deep vats. Production doubled again. Although results were assuring, another breakthrough was needed. Not to be outdone, Mary Hunt discovered a superior strain of penicillium in a garbage can at a local fruit market. She found a beautiful moldy cantaloupe containing the superior strain of penicillium later named penicillium chrysogenum. By the end of its research, the NCAUR team had increased production of the mold by one hundred times. Called the cheapest antibiotic ever, penicillin was soon available to treat soldiers wounded in World War II battles. No longer did people die from common infections like bacterial pneumonia. The process of growing penicillin developed by Moyer is now being used for growing many other antibiotics commercially. Moyer was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame joining other distinguished inventors, including the Wright Brothers and Thomas Edison. The NCAUR research team received a plaque from the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy for their hard work. NCAUR's miracle drug has saved numerous lives and has since been discovering other pharmaceutical uses for agricultural products." There are more inventions of the Ag Lab at the "lib.niu.edu" website... :-)    (Contributor: Janine Crandell)
Patent No. 318981		Peoria	Green, Andrew W.	Tuning-Hammer
Patent No. 320443		Peoria	Orchard, Henry and Venell, A. V.	Hay-Stacker
Trademark Reg. #61635	circa 1st used 1883	Peoria	Amole Soap Co.	Amole Mexican
Trademark Reg. #21340	circa June 21, 1892	Peoria	Oakford & Fahnestock Firm	Blue Ribbon Brand (canned veg & fruit)
Patent No. 320916	June 30, 1885	Peoria	Dunlap, John S.	Stool Pedestal
Trademark Reg. #62025	circa first used 9/15/1889	Peoria	Keystone Fence Company	trademark - Keystone
Trademark Reg. #58221	circa 1st used 1905	Peoria	Keystone Fence Company	Square Deal wire fence
Patent No. 321666	July 7, 1885	Peoria	Van Drelzen, John A.	Cooler for Water and Other Liquids
Patent No. 321666	July 14, 1885	Peoria	Benner, Lorenzo D.	Check-Rower for Corn-Planters
Patent No. 322020	July 14, 1885	Peoria	Stock, Charles F. and Moore, N. Grier and Peoria Target Company	Trap for Throwing Targets
Perry County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 321510	July 7, 1885	Pickneyvile	Losse, Henry	Fire-Engine
Pope County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 321651	July 7, 1885	Eddyville	Shufflebarger, Simon and Shufflebarger, Willis	Journal-Box
Pulaski County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 321606	July 7, 1885	Mound City	Hough, William Webster and Robarts, Joseph P.	Minnow-Bucket
Richland County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 319025		Olney	Richey, James I.	Automatic valve for drinking-troughs
Rock Island County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 320369		Carbon Cliff	Letsch, William F.	Potato-Digger
Trademark Reg. #30580	circa September 21, 1897	Moline	Deere & company Corporation	wagons
Patent No. 320369	July 14, 1885	Rock Island	O'Neil, Michael S.	Draft-Equalizer
Sangamon County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 321960	July 14, 1885	Mechanicsburg	Freeto, James H.	Telephone
		Springfield	Westlake, A. T.	dial figuring-machine
		Springfield	Wetzel, P. A.	washboard
	1853	Springfield		In 1853 - The first Illinois State Fair is held.
Patent No. 321726	July 7, 1885	Springfield	Ide, Albert L.	Steam-Engine Cross-Head Lubricator
Patent No. 321727	July 7, 1885	Springfield	Ide, Albert L.	Steam-Engine Cross-Head
Patent No. 322150	July 14, 1885	Springfield	Barrows, J. Frank	Piano-Truck
Shelby County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
		Shelbyville	Cochran, Mrs. Josephine Garis	The first dishwasher was patented in 1850 by Joel Houghton; his machine was a hand-turned wheel that splashed water on dishes - unfortunately, it wasn't very effective at washing dishes. The first working automatic dishwasher was invented by Mrs. Josephine Garis (W. A.) Cochran, of Shelbyville, Illinois, in 1889. Her dishwasher was a wooden tub with a wire basket in it. First, she measured her dishes and then built wire compartments - each specially designed to fit plates, cups, and saucers. The compartments fit in a wheel that lay flat inside a copper boiler. A motor turned the wheel, while hot soapy water squirted up from the boiler and rained down on the dishes, cleaning them. She unveiled her invention at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, and won its highest award. Cochrane's friends liked her dishwasher, and soon, Mrs. Cochrane was getting orders for the machine from restaurants and hotels around Illinois. She patented the design and went into production. (Her company is now the well-known corporation KitchenAid.) [Source: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/1800b.shtml]
St. Clair County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Pat. No. 318942		Belleville	Baumgartner, Alexander	Stalk and Cane Cutter
Patent 8480	1851	Belleville	Roberts, Cyrus and Cox, John	Cox & Roberts Threshing Machine Company later became Harrison Machine Works.
	1857	Belleville	Gundlach,  P.	1857 Packing for Piston Rods and the Like Family continues to manufacture under the names Beno J. Gundlach Co. manufactures smaller items, and the T. J. Gundlach Machine Company
Patent No. 23089	1859	Belleville	Kessler, Peter	Alcohol Still
Patent No. 27235	1859	Belleville	Penn, Worden P.	Horsepower
Patent No. 38824	1863	Belleville	Heaton, Charles	Armor Cladding For Ships
Patent No. 51690	1865	Belleville	Bunsen, George C.	Fireman
Patent No. 167138	1875	Belleville	Troll, Joseph	Tullerians
Patent No. 572,985	1896	Lebanon	Hammonds, Julia Terry	Apparatus for holding Yarn Skeins - Patent #572,985 granted to Julia Terry Hammonds of Lebanon, Illinois on Dec.15, 1896. Listed in the Offical Gazette of the U.S. Patent Office. vol.77 p. 1617
Stephenson County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
	1881	Freeport	Schofield, S. C.	corn sheller
Patent No. 319059	July 7, 1885	Freeport	Pattison, George H.	Windmill-Gearing
Patent No. 322314	July 7, 1885	Freeport	Pattison, George H.	Windmill-Gearing - new and useful improvements
Vermilion County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Trademark Reg. #23463,	circa April 10, 1893	Hoopeston	Illinois Canning Co.	Cream of the Prairie Sugar Corn
Trademark Reg. #23464	circa April 10, 1893	Hoopeston	Illinois Canning Co.	Baby Bunting canned corn
Trademark Reg. #23481,	circa April 10, 1893	Hoopeston	Illinois Canning Co	Pride of Illinois Sugar Corn
Tazewell County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 319059		Mackinaw	Brock, Levi M.	Wheel-Plow
Wabash County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
		Mt. Carmel	Riggs, J. W.	gate closer.
Warren County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
	1880	Monmouth		dead duck decoy holder
Patent No. 320519	June 23, 1885	Monmouth	Weir, William S.	Cultivator
Patent No. 320519	July 7, 1885	Monmouth	Ney, William E.	Velocipede
Washington County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 321349	June 23, 1885	Okawville	Eppel, Gustav. A.	Washing-Machine
Whiteside County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 321449	July 7, 1885	Rock Falls	Packer, George W.	Check-Rower
Trademark Reg. #62973	circa 1884	Sterling	Black Silk	Black Silk Stove Polish
		Sterling		Sterling -  Credit goes to the Charter Gasoline Engine Company of Sterling, Illinois, for first successfully using gasoline as fuel. Charter's creation of a gasoline fueled engine in 1887 soon led to early gasoline traction engines before the term "tractor" was coined by others. Charter adapted its engine to a Rumley steam-traction-engine chassis, and in 1889 produced six of the machines to become one of the first working gasoline traction engines. [Source: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bltractor.htm]
Will County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
Patent No. 318967		Joliet	Dice, Andrew F.	Barbed-Wire Spool
Patent No. 322372	July 14, 1885	Joliet	Hanscom, Joshua F.	Mackine for Making Staples
Winnebago County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
		Harlem	Haase, Leo G.	Harlem, road-scraper
	1906	Rockford		a 1906 pencil sharpener manufactured in Rockford
Patent No. 320211		Rockford	Bergsten, Joseph	Towel-Rack
Patent No. 321961	July 14, 1885	Rockford	Ganick, Louis	Desk Attachment for Trunks
Woodford County, Illinois
Pat or Reg. Num.	Date	Location	Inventor(s)	Invention
	1870	El Paso	Strother, David A.	David A. Strother, resident of El Paso, Illinois, becomes the first African American to Vote
Trademark Reg. #79903	circa first used October 7, 1900	Eureka	Dickinson & Co.	Walnut canned vegetables

Updated by K. Torp
©Judy Edwards and Genealogy Trails