Oliver Employees with 15 Years of Service -1918
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Oliver Employees with 15 Years of Service -1918
Description
This group of employees on the lawn in front of the Oliver Typewriter factory are being recognized for having been employed for 15 or more years of service. Three women join the gentlemen who are dressed in suits, many with medals on their lapels in recognition for service.
The article "Decade and one half at Oliver" in the Woodstock Sentinel on July 24, 1918 identifies the people in the photo:
Top row left to right: John Brewer, Foreman George J. Griffiths, John Shannon, Ed Wienke, Willard Sherman, Ralph Milton, Amos Stephenson, Fred Wynkoop, A. Classen, William Downing, Louis Lohnson, C. E. Jones.
Middle row: C. M. Curtis, Charles Roderick, E. E. Greenley, Louis Boone, Fannie Stephenson, John Whitworth Superintendent and Second Vice-President, Harriet Young, Secretary to the Superintendent, Foreman C. C. Harting, Amanda Chappel, S. A. Greenleaf Local Cashier, Foreman E. A. Young
Lower row: Foreman Harry Cross, Foreman L. H. Dibler, Vet. Rowley, Will Snyder, Foreman L. E. Copeland, Foreman E. A. Senger, B. C. Young, Assistant to the Superintendent, Charles Franson, Matt Riley, E. A. Boyce
Medlar 1907 Series
The article "Decade and one half at Oliver" in the Woodstock Sentinel on July 24, 1918 identifies the people in the photo:
Top row left to right: John Brewer, Foreman George J. Griffiths, John Shannon, Ed Wienke, Willard Sherman, Ralph Milton, Amos Stephenson, Fred Wynkoop, A. Classen, William Downing, Louis Lohnson, C. E. Jones.
Middle row: C. M. Curtis, Charles Roderick, E. E. Greenley, Louis Boone, Fannie Stephenson, John Whitworth Superintendent and Second Vice-President, Harriet Young, Secretary to the Superintendent, Foreman C. C. Harting, Amanda Chappel, S. A. Greenleaf Local Cashier, Foreman E. A. Young
Lower row: Foreman Harry Cross, Foreman L. H. Dibler, Vet. Rowley, Will Snyder, Foreman L. E. Copeland, Foreman E. A. Senger, B. C. Young, Assistant to the Superintendent, Charles Franson, Matt Riley, E. A. Boyce
Medlar 1907 Series
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Source
McHenry County Historical Society
Date
1918
Citation
Medlar Studios, “Oliver Employees with 15 Years of Service -1918,” Woodstock Public Library Archives, accessed August 17, 2026, https://woodstockpubliclibraryarchives.omeka.net/items/show/1530.
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