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Letter: more on local
Dear Editor,
In the June 23rd issue I
read about the mills in this
area.
The account concerning
the last Spangler Mill
covered the last number of
years.
I am enclosing informa-
tion of the origin of that
mill from the year 1857.
Gabriel Bear was my great
grandfather. The informa-
tion concerning the mill 1
am writing about was in a
Centennial Souvenier Book
of 1812 to 1912.
This book has been in
our family, and handed
down through a number of
generations.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Anna Grissinger
P.S. The Mill is on the
North Market Street, a few
doors beyond the Post
Office.
BRANDT & STEHMAN’S
MILL NOW ‘“‘SPANGLERS’
(from 1912 Souvenier Book)
Mount Joy has the dis-
tinction of having the first
roller process flour mill in
the State. The mill was
first built in 1887 by
Gabriel Bear, who moved
here from Lititz in the
spring of the same year,
who operated it for several
vears when he gave the
wuisness into the hands of
his son Samuel Bear who
conducted it for a few years
vhen he died. Afterwhich
nis father again took
charge. In the course of a
few years, Mr. Bear sold
out to John M. Brandt,
who operated the mill only
a short time when he took
in A. K. Manning as a
partner.
The mill was then run
under the firm name of
Brandt and Manning, and
was greatly remodeled dur-
ing the year 1881 and were
the first to install the roller
process for making flour, in
PA in fact there were only
a few roller mills in the
United States at that time.
The first one in this
country being operated at
Minneapolis, Minnesota by
Washburn, Crosby and Co.
The mill was started in the
fall of 1881 and the
demand for roller flour at
once became so great that
they were compelled to run
day and nigh! 24 hours in a
day and round 800
pushels of eat in that
time filling 00 barrels of
flour. They found ready
sale for the: flour in the
Philadelphia and New York
markets, and merchants
from Baltimore and various
cities of New Jersey gave
them large orders. The
mills of the surrounding
towns and cities, which
were then unable to sell
their flour made by the
old method followed the
example of the Mount Joy
Roller Mill and also instal-
led the roller process.
The mill ran under the
management of Brandt and
Manning for ten years
when Mr. Manning retired
mills from 1912 book
from the firm and Mr.
Brandt conducted the busi-
ness alone for some time
until he took in I. D. Steh-
man as a partner and the
firm was known as Brandt
& Stehman ever since. In
1910 Mr. Brandt died and
his son Owen Brandt was
taken in as a partner in his
father’s stead.
Since the installation of
the roller process this mill
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has turned out an immense
lot of fine roller flour,
which has been shipped to
all parts of the world, but
during the present year of
1912 all the old machinery
has been torn out and a
new roller process has been
placed in its stead, with
which they are able to
grind spring wheat and
make flour that is second to
none.
July 7, 1976
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