Jerome Increase Case was one of America's industrial pioneers. Mr. Case built his empire around threshing machines for wheat. In 1842 while living in New York he purchased six ``ground hog'' threshers ...
The J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co. bought the lot on the southwest corner of Boone Avenue and Monroe Street in 1909 for $40,000 and built a new brick warehouse with a loading dock along the railroad ...