William Lodge (1848-1917)
Lodge had his apprenticeship in theEnglish machine-tool industry and arrived broke in Cincinnati in 1872. After eight years with John Steptoe, he had saved enough to start his own firm. This became Lodge & Davis, whose export activities exceeded the capacity of the firm. So while Davis sold the machines, Lodge helped start other firms to supply them. Later Lodge & Davis split up over Lodge's desire to concentrate on a single type of machine. The original firm eventually became American Tool, and Lodge's new firm became Lodge & Shipley. By 1900 there were 25 machine-tool firms in Cincinnati, and the formation of about half of them had been strongly influenced by Lodge.
Elected 1982
 R. Bannow (1897-1962) |
 T. Blanchard (1788-1864) |
 E.W. Bliss (1836-1903) |
 W. Brainard (1912-1976) |
 J. Brown (1810-1876) |
 W. Bryant (1875-1931) |
 E. Bullard (1872-1953) |
 F. Cone (1868-1936) |
 Ralph E. Cross (1910-2003) |
 T.W. Davenport (1861-1937) |
 C. DeVlieg (1892-1973) |
 E. Fellows (1865-1945) |
 R. Gaylord (1888-1980) |
 F. Geier (1894-1981) |
 James Gleason (1868-1964) |
 George Gridley (1869-1956) |
 John Hall (1781-1841) |
 J. Hartness (1861-1934) |
 James Heald (1846-1931) |
 J. Herkenhoff (1905-1996) |
 F. Howe (1822-1891) |
 W Ingersoll (1865-1928) |
 E. Kingsbury (1893-1973) |
 Ralph Kraut (1908-1985) |
 E. Lamson (1814-1891) |
 A. Landis (1851-1923) |
 F. Landis (1845-1932) |
 R. LeBlond (1900-1995) |
 R. LeBlond (1864-1953) |
 W. Lodge (1848-1917) |
 R. Moore (1896-1987) |
 S. North (1765-1852) |
 C. Norton (1851-1942) |
 John Parsons (1913- ) |
 Louis Polk (1904-1991) |
 F. Pratt (1827-1902) |
 Henry Prentiss (1848-1943) |
 W. Sellers (1824-1905) |
 H. Sharpe (1872-1954) |
 L. Sharpe (1830-1899) |
 A. Swasey (1846-1937) |
 F. Taylor (1856-1915) |
 F. Trecker (1909-1987) |
 T. Trecker (1868-1955) |
 Eli Whitney (1765-1825) |
 L. Wilkie (1900-1993) |
 D. Wilkinson (1771-1852) |