Central Oil Co. Incorporated in 1900. Its purpose was to drill for oil. Its investors were Dudley H. Wiggins – a farmer, George E. Hume – secretary of a Title Co., John G. Walleck, William E. Wocher – an insurance agency manager, and Newton B. Tarkington. This last signer was the famous Hoosier author Booth Tarkington, early in his career. It is interesting  he later wrote that he detested the pollution caused by industry and automobiles.

C.G. Fisher Co. Incorporated in 1908. “to deal in bicycles, self-propelled machines, and other vehicles”. Directors of the C.G. Fisher Co. were Charles & George Koehring – owners of a hardware store at 878-882 Virginia Ave, and Carl G. Fisher. Fisher was originally a bicycle repair shop owner and racing enthusiast. He became enamored with the new invention of the automobile and opened the Fisher Automobile Co. in 1901, which sold a variety of automobiles at 400 N. Capitol Ave. Besides owning the Prest-O-Lite Storage Battery Co. at this time with P.C. Avery and James A. Allison, he later was instrumental in promoting and developing the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Lincoln Highway from New York City to San Francisco, the Dixie Highway from Michigan to Florida, and the city of Miami Beach, Florida.