The first manufacturer in Beatrice was said to have begun production in 1857 when the townsite company established a sawmill on the east side of the Blue River on the southwest corner of First and ...

BEATRICE, Neb. (AP) - In recent years the oldest name in Beatrice manufacturing has received new life under new owners set to make Dempsters once again prominent in the ag industry. As new faces focus ...

BEATRICE — An Ohio family bought 130-year-old windmill maker Dempster Industries Inc. Wallace Davis and his family from Centerville, Ohio, bought Dempster, which is based in Beatrice. Davis said ...

— Excerpts from "Nebraska: 150 Years Told Through 93 Counties," a World-Herald book by staff writer David Hendee CHARLES B. DEMPSTER BOUGHT INTO A RETAIL PUMP AND WINDMILL SHOP IN BEATRICE IN 1878.