John Deere Plow Works, Moline

Events here

• 1965, after thirty-nine years

  Retirement from John Deere Plow Works

  Held several positions and retired as a hot press operator on the plow share line.

• Daddy worked there for thirty-nine years.

  Gus helps Daddy begin work at John Deere Plow Works

  Gus obtained the promised job for Daddy. Iris also recalls Daddy driving a truck for a WPA road-building company during some of the first years of the Great Depression.

• 1921

  Floyd begins at John Deere Plow Works

  Gus, a supervisor, helped Floyd obtain work.