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relationship now constitute a large element of the most substantial citizens of that section. W. B.
Martindale moved, at the close of the war, to Missouri, where he read law and commenced the
practice, but a taste for writing led him into the field of legal literature, first as a contributor to
some of the leading periodicals, and afterward as a law book writer. He is the author of two very
successful law books, and as such is known to the legal fraternity throughout the country. He
married in Missouri and in 1882 moved with his family to Kenosha, Wis., where for a number of
years he was editor and proprietor of the Kenosha Courier. After disposing of that paper he
became the inventor of a Time Stamp, an ingenious device for stamping time on paper. A
company has been organized which under Mr. Martindale’s superintendency, is manufacturing
these machines for commercial purposes, and is also building a machine for postoffice use which
they hope to have adopted by the Government. It will change the time automatically every minute
and postmark and cancel the stamps on forty to sixty thousand letters an hour.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, September 20, 1895]
BUGGY SEAT PATENT
One of the drawbacks to comfortable buggy riding when they get so thick as “three in a
seat” has been overcome in a most simple and practical manner in a patent just issued to our
townsman, Mr. Charles B. Moore. It is a seat for the third passenger in a single buggy and it works
like a charm. It is simply a narrow slide seat which pulls out from under the main seat when
seating capacity for three is wanted. And the popularity of the patent will at once be recognized
when it is stated that it can be put in a new buggy at a cost of less than a half dollar. It is
comfortable, convenient, and inexpensive and there is certainly a great market open to such an
improvement of buggy seating.
Mr. Moore has spent considerable time and money on his patent and as it is one which
will greatly conduce to the comfort of humanity at little or no expense the SENTINEL hopes Mr.
Moore may realize handsomely on his invention. He is a popular and reliable gentleman and
deserving of the confidence of the trade.
[Rochester Sentinel, Friday, November 19, 1897]
ROCHESTER MAN INVENTOR
M. C. Kessler, formerly of this county, but now a resident of Denver, Colo., has just
completed a device upon which he has been working since 1899 for the simplifying and
cheapening of motive power for auto vehicles which it is thought will revolutionize the industry.
Kessler’s new invention has but one cylinder, but it is claimed that it will do the work of a doublecylinder
engine. Kessler, who began work on his new machine in 1899 having his experiments
upon ideas gathered from the mechanical history of the sixteenth century.
Denver capitalists are going to promote the new invention, which is already covered by
patents.
The inventor expects to greatly reduce the cost of automobiles, as well as to greatly
increase their speed, by reducing the weight of the machines.
Representatives of one of the largest manufacturing concerns in Denver pronounces it to
be one of the greatest of recent times in mechanical engineering. The principle is also adaptable
for stationary engines, and will doubtless bring about a similar revolution in hoisting machines,
etc. The consumption of fuel will be reduced from one-fourth to one-third of the present expense
of developing the same amount of power.
Mr. Kessler is a brother of Del Kessler of this city, and is well known here having
attended school at Rochester college several years ago.
[Rochester Sentinel, Wednesday, March 29, 1905]
FORMER ROCHESTER MAN IN BIG SPLURGE IN CHICAGO
“Prof.” Benson Bidwell, a former Rochester candy kitchen proprietor, is making quite a
splurge in Chicago as inventor. He has a manufacturers company back of him and in the Sunday
Chicago newspapers there were large and expensive advertisements of stock for sale in a patent