Roling’s
In 1892, a business began in Salisbury that continued until 2018. In 1892, John F. Roling, a native of Quincy Illinois, bought the machine shop of E.A. Chadwick. This shop was across the street from the present location of the business. Mr. Roling was a blacksmith and ran a one-man shop, soing smithy and lathe repair work. Later he branched out and sold and installed windmills for his customers.
Before long, he added “and Sons” to the firm name. The firm now included his two sons, Ben and Joe Roling.
Steam engines were included in the line and around 1910 those were replaced by gasoline engines. This in turn was replaced by electric motors which produced power to run the shop equipment. Acetylene welding equipment and a cutting torcher were added. The firm was by that time making stock tanks, sheep dipping tanks and sorghum cooking vats.
Ben Roling later chose employment elsewhere, and on the death of J. F Rolilng in 1947, Joe Roling remained the head of the firm. By this time John Deere farm machinery in volume had been added to the sale inventory. At one time the company also offered services in plumbing and HVAC trades.
The business grew from a one-man shop to a modern implement dealer and shop facilities under Joe’s son Bob Roling and later was owned and managed by Bob’s children Ron and Dave Roling and Betty Asbury. When the business sold in 2018 to Sydenstricker-Nobbe Partners it was the oldest continuously owned family John Deere dealership west of the Mississippi River.
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