1915 Linn Tractor advertising

Copy and comments courtesy of Rene Elliott

In late 1915 H.H. Linn was showing off his tractor and having Norm Carey take images like this, printed by the Morris Chronicle in an early catalog, showing the 1915 rebuilt prototype pulling two town road graders on the flat up past McWilliam's on county rt. 51, with the original town tractor, a International Harvestor traction engine, in the background as a suggestion.

This is how Linn # 1 probably appeared originally, with a "C" cab and body, all the wood pieces built by George Fisher, who along with Fred Southern and Bert Leska were the first people besides H.H. Linn employed. Leska was actually a day late, he took the train from Syracuse and arrived late in Mt. Upton thinking there would be some kind of bus or taxi available, and walked to Morris with his luggage and went to bed when he got here and slept.