Browse Items (1 total) Tags: check-rower wire Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Robert Faries Photograph of Robert Faries (d. 11/17/1919). Faries was a manufacturer, inventor, and president of the Faries Manufacturing Co. He bought Wilson Park, and renamed it Faries Park in 1910. He founded the Faries Manufacturing Co. in 1881, which… Tags: 1080 E. Eldorado St., 1919, 521 E. Eldorado St., adjustable lamp holder, Autoposean attachment for cameras, biography, check-rower wire, Civil War, Decatur Herald and Review, Decatur IL, Faries Manufacturing Co., Faries Park, home electrical and gas fixtures, inventor, manufacturer, Photo File: Biography, revolving show window fixture, Robert Faries, Vandeventer, veteran, Walrus Manufacturing Co., Wilson Park