Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marion was a small community of about 2,000 people when inventor Edward Huber and his wife, Elizabeth, came to the city to build a ...

Edward Huber held over 100 patents and founded the Huber Manufacturing Company in 1874. Huber's son, Frank, became president of Marion Power Shovel and helped build the Panama Canal and NASA's crawler ...