page_title: Stedman Machine Company
section_title: Twentieth century
hierarchical_section_title: Stedman Machine Company / Twentieth century
caption_attribution_description: English: Stedman's Foundry &amp; Machine Works staff photo Circa 1840, Cochran, Indiana
context_page_description: Stedman Machine Company is a manufacturer of crusher equipment in Aurora, Indiana, United States, that was founded by Nathan R. Stedman in 1834.
  Stedman owes its origin to the market that was created in the South many years ago for iron nuts and screws for use by planters and others in assembling their cotton and hay presses.
context_section_description: In 1912, the business had to move to a larger area.  A new plant was built in the Cochran area, on a site still formerly occupied by an Ohio and Mississippi Rail Road service garage where it exists today.  That same year, the Stedman family sold the business to Cincinnati industrialists Stuart P. Sutphin, Chester A. Peebles and Perin Langdon.  The company began operation as two divisions, the foundry division and the machinery division.  The foundry continued to produce castings for manufacturers of machine tools, valves, pumps, presses, motors, blowers and tool and die equipment.  The machinery division's product line expanded to include crushing, pulverizing, disintegrating, mixing and screening equipment for the fertilizer, chemical, meat packing, crushed stone, sand and gravel and glass industries.  The company was conveniently located for the delivery of goods to the boat landing or the railroad.
caption: Stedman staff photo 1912
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