Moline Plow Company
3rd Avenue

Founded as Candee, Swan & Co. in 1866 by local businessmen Robert Candee and Henry Swan, the company was formed to compete directly with John Deere in the manufacture of plows. Changing its name in the midst of a three year long trademark dispute with John Deere, Candee, Swan & Co. named Stillman Wheelock its president after a $75,000 investment, and changed its name to the Moline Plow Company.

The Moline Plow Company purchased the Universal Tractor Company (Columbus, Ohio) in 1915, after which a tractor facility was moved to Moline for production of the Universal. Through the 1920s the company operated as the Moline Implement Company, and after 1929 Minneapolis-Moline Power Implement Company.

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