Dempster MILL WINDMILL Weight MILLWEIGHT longtail HORSE
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Dempster WINDMILL Weight HORSE long tail MILLWEIGHT FOLK ART beatrice NEBRASKA cast iron PRIMITIVE morgan AMERICANA gorgeous FOLK ART millweight LONG TAILEDHORSE (Primitive - Saddlebred? Morgan? Ethan Allen? Hambletonian?; hard to get lighting right; will gladly supply additional pictures from specific angles upon request) windmill weight Weighs 13 Pounds (1" wide "DEMPSTER" inside diamond shape mark appears on both rear flanks) From Dempster Vaneless Windmill Model #1 or #2;Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company, Beatrice, Nebraska Additional information & excerpts from: /Dempsterhistory.html "The Dempster Mill Manufacturing Company was established in 1878 by C.B. Dempster, a native of Carpentersville, Illinois. He was born t in 1835. He was reared on a farm near the town, and when all his older brothers entered military service on the side of the Union in the Civil War, he became responsible for much of the work that was done on the family farm In the autumn of 1871, Dempster left his home and lived intermittently in Elgin and Chicago, Illinois, w he worked at such jobs as selling sewing machines, running a horse car, traveling on the road as a salesman for paper shirt patterns, and clerking in a dry goods store. Feeling that t were better opportunities for a young man in the West, in 1878 he moved to Beatrice, Nebraska.
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