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Antique Engine Database
Wogamon Bros. Co.
The company is believed to have proudced four different engines. Only 6 are known of a 4 HP model, similar to Art Gaier’s. A similar but larger 4 HP, of which none are known to still exist, a six-cycle, air-cooled engine of which none are known to still exist, and their largest model with unknown horsepower that was known to be made, also of which none are known to still exist.
history
In 1885, Harry Howard was an ironworker in Brookville, Ohio. While he was building Brookville’s first iron bridge and first hydraulic elevator, he came up with the idea to manufacture gas engines. Understanding it would be most practical to live near a foundry, he and his family, and two brothers, Willis and Webster, moved to Greenville, OH in 1902. Their new company was founded and called Wogaman Bros. Co. but after about a year, changed the name to The Wogaman Mfg. Co. When World War I began in 1914, the company stopped making gas engines and began to make machine artillery shells for the war effort, and continued until 1918 when the factory closed for re-tooling. It is believed they never reopened and that Harry gave his shop foreman, Connor Miller, all the patterns and molds. The foreman continued producing Wogaman replacement parts until sometime in the 1940s.
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