Upton Machine Company
Louis and Frederick, along with their uncle Emory, founded the Upton Machine Company in 1911. The company engaged in the manufacture of electric washing machines. The Upton Machine Company became the Nineteen Hundred Machine Company in 1929, before becoming the Whirlpool Corporation in 1950.
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