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BUDD - DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV - Page 57-58 WILLIAM H. BUDD. An organization that insured a prompt, regular wholesome supply of an essential element in the daily food consumption of a large city is obviously one of the most important institutions of such a community. In realizing all the exacting demands of such program Columbus has been properly proud of the Budd Dairy Company, one of the model organizations of its kind in the state and one that has regularly anticipated the progressive requirements affecting the production and distribution of milk and milk products to the public. This company represents an interesting history of development and progress. On November 1, 1894, nearly thirty years ago, Mr. Simon T. Budd, with a one-horse wagon, started the sale of milk in Columbus, carrying the product from his farm near Mifflinville, seven and one-half miles northeast of Columbus. The sales for the first day totaled only ten quarts, or sixty cents. Mr. Simon T. Budd is still a director in the Budd Dairy Company, but the active control of the business for many years was in the hands of his son, William H. Budd. William H. Budd was born in Delaware County, Ohio, in 1877. When he was a small boy his father moved to a farm in Plain Township, Franklin County, and on that farm the dairy business was started in the modest way just described. About twelve years later, with the gradual growth of the business, a local plant was established in Columbus, at 1390 Wesley Avenue. At that time the business was conducted by the S.T. Budd Dairy Company. By September, 1906, this company was distributing about sixty gallons of milk daily. At that time William H. Budd, who had grown up on the farm and from boyhood had familiarized himself with all the technical processes involved in dairying, bought out his father, and it was subsequently incorporated as the Budd Dairy Company, of which he became president and general manager. The business was continued at the Wesley Avenue location until December 7, 1916, when it was moved to a new plant at North Fourth Street, between Detroit Avenue and Fourth Avenue. The new plant is probably one of the finest in the country. The main building is 70 feet front by 150 feet deep, one and two stories high, and basement under all. It is of concrete and steel construction throughout, faced with red pressed brick laid with black mortar, trimmed in white terra cotta, so that the building as a whole presents a pleasing architectural design. All the air taken into the building passes through washing and sterilizing processes before it is delivered into any of the rooms. The equipment of boilers, engines, ice machinery and pasteurizing equipment is thoroughly modern. The plant produces forty tons of refrigeration every twenty-four hours, and from ten to twelve thousand gallons of water are required for cooling purposes. One notable feature of the building is an assembly hall, kitchen and laboratories, arranged especially for the use of the company's customers and friends, frequently used for parties, luncheons, club banquets, either during the day or evening. This known as Budd's Assembly Hall, and is open to the company's customers during the day. The milk and cream sold from this plant are under the strict testing and approval of the state and city health departments. All employes who handle the milk are required to pass medical examination and have certificates of good health. The milk is received daily by train and motor trucks, and is shipped from farms in a radius of fifty miles around Columbus. At the original point of production the milk is produced under rigid specifications and every successive trip is properly safeguarded until the perfect product is placed at the customer's door. This beautiful and very efficient plant was designed, built and financed by W.H. Budd, and under his personal supervision he purchased and installed all the modern machinery and equipment. When the company moved to its new plant in 1916 it had a capacity of about 900 gallons of milk daily. There was then a delivery equipment of twenty wagons. With subsequent growth the company now distributes about 3,000 gallons of milk daily, employing forty wagons in the delivery. Since then the capacity of the plant has been increased to 9,000 gallons. Out of 45,000 families in Columbus about 11,000 are served with milk and cream by this company. It is an interesting fact that there has not been a single day in the last twenty-eight years where the service of the Budd Dairy has been discontinued. The delivery equipment consists of forty-one horse wagons, electric trucks, gasoline trucks and their housing requires a barn and garage covering a space 100 feet wide by 140 feet deep. The equipment of the garage includes the company's own charging plant for the daily charging of the electric trucks. This was the first company in the United States to use electric trucks for retail milk delivery. After an association of more than twenty years, during which time he had expanded its facilities as above described, William H. Budd disposed of his interest in the Budd Dairy Company, in February, 1924, and has since given most of his energies to other affairs. On November 1, 1905, he had, in partnership with W.E. Ranney, organized the Budd-Ranney Manufacturing Company, establishing a plant at 37 South Scioto Street, Columbus, for the manufacture of dies, tools and special machinery. In March, 1906, William A. Vance joined the original partners and at a later date the company was incorporated as the Budd and Ranney Engineering Company, of which Mr. Budd is vice president. The present location of the plant is the southeast corner of Chestnut and Water streets, Columbus, and it is a business of flourishing proportions. Mr. Budd is also president of the Safety Wire, Gas, Globe company, located at 44 East Second Street. Mr. Budd is a popular member of Columbus business social circle, being affiliated with the Rotary Club, Young Men's Christian Association, the Scottish Rite Masons and Shriners, and is also an Elk. ------------------------------ X-Message: #2 Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 08:27:24, -0500 From: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com (MRS GINA M REASONER) Subject: OSCAR CASE - DELAWARE COUNTY HISTORY OF OHIO The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925 Volume IV - Page 14 OSCAR CASE is proprietor of the Case Creamery Company at Delaware. The patrons of that business know and appreciate its high class and efficient management and the splendid quality of its product. Some of them also known something of the personal history of its proprietor, how he started when a boy just in his teens in the milk business, and by his persistency, enthusiasm and high ideals has developed a service that is one of the most essential in any community. He was born on a farm in Delaware County, February 20, 1889, son of Ralph Frank and Ida (Hickel) Case, and grandson of Ralph and Esther Ann (Holcomb) Case. The Holcombs were an old Connecticut family. Ralph Frank Case died in 1901. The widowed mother still occupies the old home farm, which is owned by Oscar Case. Oscar Case attended school only when there was no pressing work to do on the farm. His education ended when he was fifteen. Two years previously he had started in an exceedingly modest way to sell milk, at first only three pints daily. He kept adding to his list of patrons so that at the end of two years he needed a wagon for his delivery, and there has been no interruption to an increased volume of business and progressive addition of facilities to make a perfect service. He put in a supply station in the City of Delaware, then a creamery with modern machinery for pasteurizing milk and the manufacture of butter, and in 1916 erected the most modern creamery and ice cream plant in the state. It occupies a fine building one block from Main Street. In this flourishing business Mr. Case has realized the dream and ambition of his boyhood. He understood even as a boy that quality was what people demanded, and his success has been largely due to his ability to maintain his standards above the ordinary. In March, 1916, at Columbus, Mr. Case married Miss Ethel McCloud, daughter of William and Sarah (Boddel) McCloud, who live at Columbus. Her father was a Union soldier in the Civil war. Associated with Mr. Oscar Case for a number of years has been his brother, Craiton Case, who was born July 9, 1887, and both grew up on the farm together and had similar educational advantages. Craiton Case has been making his own way since he was fourteen. He did farm work by the month, and he now manages the home farm and assists in the creamery business. He is unmarried. -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V99 Issue #321 *******************************************