history

Arthur Briggs Farqhuar began to work for W. W. Dingee & Company in 1852. They were a small manufacturer of agricultural implements in New York, PA. 18 months later, he told his bosses that he intended to leave and start his own business but he had become so valuable to the company that they asked him to stay an extra month to facilitate the transition. At the end of that month, they offered him a partnership in the company to get him to stay. During the Civil War, a fire destroyed the Dingee factory and Farquhar took over all liabilities and assets and formed a new company called Pennsylvania Agricultural Works. They continued making agricultural implements, including small steam engines. The company was not fully incorporated until 1899 and that was only because of estate planning purposes. Farquhar wanted to be in control of handling the distribution of his estate upon his death. Eventually, they went by their new incorporated name, A. G. Farquhar Company, Limited. They manufactured steam engines, traction engines, circular sawmills, and edgers among other products. They became Farquhar Sawmill Division in 1952 after it was acquired by the Oliver Corp. Oliver sold the division to E. E. Titus, Inc. in Feb 1956, and they began manufacturing sawmills for export later that year.