The A.J. Lindemann & Hoverson Company was incorporated in 1890. The company,
however, dates back to 1875 when Albert J. Lindemann and his father John P. Lindemann
established a tinner's shop and hardware store under the name of J. P. Lindemann and Son.
Following the incorporation of the A.J. Lindemann & Hoverson Company, A.J. Lindemann
served as the company's president and H. C. Hoverson served as secretary for a few years.
The company initially manufactured roasting pans, stove pipe, and coal or wood stoves. As
the company grew, other products included gas ranges and heaters, oil and gasoline stoves,
portable ovens and oil stove wicks, electric ranges, electric water heaters, kerosene stoves
and ranges, and refrigerators and home freezers. In 1939, Eugene A. Lindemann took over as
president of the company. During the World War II years the company almost completely
converted to wartime production. The company was sold in 1958 to Chilton Metal Products,
Inc. of Chilton, Wisconsin, and Otto A. Boheim, a Milwaukee industrialist.
