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Oliver Timeline 6

1910 Mar. 19 J.D. Oliver and son Joseph sailed for New York on the Lusitania after a
visit to France, Germany, and England. This ship was sunk by a
German submarine in World War One.

1911 Jan. 12 The James Oliver residence at 325 W. Washington was sold to the city
of South Bend for the Central High School site.

1916 Sep. 30 Gertrude Wells Oliver and Charles F. Cunningham were married at the
First Presbyterian Church, South Bend.

1917 Apr. 30 Joseph D. Oliver Jr. and Ellinor Foster McMillan were married at
Sherry’s in New York City.

1917 Aug. 30 George Ford died (J.D. brother-in-law) at 9:30 p.m. He was secretary
of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works.

1918 Oct. 23 Joseph Oliver Cunningham, son of C.F. Cunningham and Gertrude
Oliver born (first child).

1918 Dec. 2 C.F. Cunningham elected Secretary and Works Manager of the Oliver
Chilled Plow Works.

1919 Sep. 16 Mrs. Joseph D. Oliver Jr. (Ellinor McMillan) died at the University of
Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia, as a result of a fall from her
horse December 5, 1918.

1920 Aug. 17 James Oliver II and Louise Yarrington married at the Cunningham
summer home at Harbor Point, Michigan.

1923 Jan. 22 Anna Gertrude Cunningham, second child of C.F. Cunningham and
Gertrude Oliver was born.

1927 Nov. 2 Frederica Jane Cunningham, the third child (and last) of Mr. and Mrs.
C.F. Cunningham was born.

1929 Feb. 21 J.D. Oliver was permitted to enter into contracts with several other farm
implement companies to expand the offerings of the Oliver Company.

1929 Mar. 30 The merger went into effect. Basically the Oliver Chilled Plow Works
ceased to function on this date when this merger was ratified. Though
the Oliver name went onto several models of tractors and other farm
equipment until 1985 when White Farm Equipment quit manufacturing
farm equipment here in South Bend.

∗ Taken from an index compiled by H. Gail Davis entitled, Index to Oliver Historical Data 1770-1929.
Completed October 1, 1955.