Joseph C. O’Brien, secretary; John Harper Jackson, assistant
secretary.
Frank H. Rea was formerly with Rea & Company, pork
packers, whose business was dissolved after a disastrous fire
about fifteen years ago. Mr. Rea looks after the financial
end of the business and has devoted much of his time to
developing the company.
Henry E. Rea is a son of the president and after about
five years of practical training in the shop in various cap-
acities is now engaged in sales development work, in addition
to his duties as assistant treasurer.
John J. Jackson is one of the pioneers in the gear busi-
ness, having worked his way from machine operator to the
position of general superintendent of the plant of the R. D.
Nuttal Co., one of the oldest gear manufacturing companies
in the country. Mr. Jackson personally looks after the
shop operation and is known throughout the gear industry
as a “live wire.” Joseph C. O’Brien is also an “old-timer”
in the gear business, having served in various capacities
from machine operator to chief mechanical engineer of the
R. D. Nuttall Company.
Mr. O’Brien is in charge of the engineering, estimating
and cost work of the company.
John Harper Jackson is a son of John J. Jackson and
after graduating from college was with the Sharpless Sepa-
rator Co. and United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry
Company. He then served as lieutenant in the Ordnance
Department and is now in charge of the development of
the business.
In the hectic days at the opening of the World War this
small company was not carried away by the abundance of
opportunities for branching out from their chosen lines of
endeavor, but calmly selected the work for which their organ-
ization was best fitted to serve the country, mapping out a
war program and a post-war program regarding policies to
be followed in the development of the business.
During the war they manufactured transmission gears
for a number of the largest farm tractor companies in the
country; also larger gears for ammunition presses, and kin-
