Wheeler & Bennett, North Mankato. (Mankato City Directory, 1892, Page 531)
Wheeler & Bennett, North Mankato. (Mankato City and Blue Earth County Directory, 1895, R. L. Polk & Co., St. Paul, 1895, Page 519)
Wheeler & Bennett, are manufacturers of the best building brick. This firm started about ten years ago, they are energetic men. The brick from their yards have been used in a number of the best business blocks and fine residences in Mankato and have always given perfect satisfaction. (Laws and Legal Forms, An Abridged Compilation of the Laws of Minnesota, for the Convenience of the People, Containing a Review of the Enterprising Business Firms of Mankato, Minn., W. A. Funk, Free Press Printing Co., Mankato, 1898, Page 46)
Wheeler & Bennett, 448 Wheeler, N Mankato. (Mankato City and Blue Earth County Directory, R. L. Polk & Co, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1900, Page 534)
Bennett & Wheeler of Mankato, have purchased the brick plant at Duluth and will operate it in addition to their North Mankato works. (Brick, Windsor & Kenfield Publishing Company, Chicago, IL, May 1900, Volume XII, Number 5, Page 199)
M. F. Rusfeldt has sold a half interest in brickyard near Duluth, Minn., to Wheeler & Benedict (Bennett), at Mankato, Minn. (The Clay Worker, T. A. Randall & Co., Indianapolis, June 1900, Volume XXXIII, Number 6, Page 554)
…and somewhat earlier as well as later, Wheeler & Bennett, and others opened yards in North Mankato. But we can scarcely hope for a large brick business in the future, as in many of the surrounding towns brick making has recently been established. (Mankato, Its First Fifty Years, Prepared for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Settlement of Mankato, 1852-1902, Free Press Printing Company, Mankato, MN, 1903, Page 101)
Page 170. Mankato. Brick and Tile – 1903. Wheeler & Bennett. Total Number Wage Earners - 18. Adult Males - 18. Number of Hours Each Day - 8. Number of Hours Each Week - 48. Average Number Weeks Operated During 1902 - 23. Number Employed between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. – Not Listed. Number Persons Regularly Employed Sunday - Not Listed. Established in Year – Illegible.
Page 171. 1904. Total Number Wage Earners - 15. Adult Males (Excluding Office Force) - 12. Males Under 16 Years – 3. Number of Hours Each Day - 10. Number of Hours Each Week - 60. Average Number Weeks Operated Last Year - 22. Number Employed between 6 p.m. and 7 a.m. - Not Listed. Number Persons Regularly Employed on Sunday - Not Listed. Changes in Name of Firm or New Inspections – None. (Ninth Biennial Report of the Bureau of Labor of the State of Minnesota, 1903-1904, Volume 2, Great Western Printing Company, 1904)