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Oil Well Supply Company
Industrial
1900s
c. 1905
Poplar Bluff
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"In 1905, George R. Schweitzer, who had come to Neelyville from Chicago in 1897, became the manager of the Oil Well Supply Company in Poplar Bluff. Owned by United States Steel, the company made sucker rods for pumping oil."
— Source: The History of Butler County Industry 1870-1930 (referenced c. 1905)
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An industrial plant managed by George R. Schweitzer that produced sucker rods for the oil industry until the late 1930s.
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