Beginning in 1910, my great grandfather Alexander Maxwell and his brother Silas started laying clay field tile and building small bridges around Montgomery County, Indiana. Of Alexander's eleven children, three of his sons - Jack, Birle, and Walter - continued the business into the 1960's. We don't know when exactly they got their first Buckeye tiling machine, but until then everything was dug by hand. My grandfather, Ralph "Windy" Maxwell, helped my great uncles part time, and that's how Bart Maxwell Sr. got involved.