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William W Dingee
William Welch Dingee was born January 5, 1831 in Byberry, Pennsylvania and died May 25, 1919 in Chicago, Illinois.

Business Career
He started his career as an apprentice machinist in Baltimore.

In 1852 he worked at A. B. Farquhar Co. York, PA and became a partner in the business.

When those facilities were destroyed by fire he went to work for Geiser Threshing Machine Company in Pennsylvania.

In 1863 he moved to Racine to establish an additional Geiser facility.

When the Geiser facility in Racine was destroyed by fire, Dingee moved to Oshkosh, and joined by Philetis Sawyer, they built the Dingee horse-power and an agitator thresher.

J I Case purchased the Sawyer interests and in 1878 and Dingee moved to Racine.

There, the Agitator threshing machine and Dingee-Woodbury horse power machine were produced.

He resigned from J I Case Threshing Machine Co. and moved to Chicago in 1906.

Dingee Patents
I have found 32 U S patents issued to Dingee from 1860 through 1906.

Two were issued to W W Dingee & A B Farquhar; 1862 & 1863.

One to Roberts & Dingee; 1870.

One was issued when Dingee was working for Geiser; 1871.

Two were issued when Dingee was in Oshkosh at Sawyer Mfg; 1877 and 1878.

One was issued to; J I Case, M B Erskine and W W Dingee in Racine; 1881.

Sixteen were assigned to J I Case Threshing Machine Co; 1888 - 1906.

Others were unassigned.