In July 1901, McClure and Terrell of the Malleable Iron Range Company of St. Louis negotiated an agreement under which they became associated with Dauntless, subsequently moving their business to Beaver Dam.

At the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon, in 1905, the Monarch was awarded the highest prize, the World's Fair Gold Medal.

Ten of thousands of these Fedelco electric ranges were shipped until Insull's highly leveraged holding companies collapsed in 1931.

There were other appliances, such as wash machines made by ABC Washer, clothing irons, and vacuum cleaners, that were also sold under the Fedelco name.

In 1927–28, Fred Rogers, who was the current president of the company, built a five-story hotel to cater to the salesmen that frequently visited the city.

In 1934 Admiral Richard E. Byrd visited Beaver Dam and assisted in designing a Monarch coal-wood stove to be used in his second Antarctic expedition.

Additional product lines were developed and produced including refrigerators, gas and electric water heaters.

[2] After the Second World War, production of residential appliances was resumed and the factory ran at near full capacity until 1948 when the delayed demand was satisfied.

As a small company, Monarch found that it did not have the marketing strength to compete against the large appliance manufactures such as General Electric.

[9] In July, 1985, the assets, excluding buildings and land, were purchased for $2.36 million by the Famco Machine Division of Belco Industries of Kenosha, Wisconsin.

The registered trades names for Monarch and Jet Fan were last assigned to the Metal Ware Corporation, Inc., of Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

During the next several years, Dodge County hired an environmental consulting firm; submitted a site assessment to DNR; installed a system for dealing with petroleum contamination; cleaned up and disposed of contaminated soils; and put together a remedial action plan for removing non-petroleum products from groundwater.

The city of Beaver Dam created a tax increment financing (TIF) District in September 1994 for development on the property, and contributed $350,000 toward environmental clean-up costs.

Dodge County received $657,000 from the state PECFA (Petroleum Environmental Clean-Up Fund Act) to clean up groundwater pollution caused by underground tanks.

And the state Department of Development awarded Beaver Dam a $350,000 block grant for improvements, including street, sewer and water utilities, engineering and site work.

During World War I, the company developed portable coal-wood field ranges for use by the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe.

[1] During World War II, the Malleable Iron Range Company produced 75mm artillery shells, truck bodies, and gas and water cans.

Although US home appliance manufacturing was shut down early in the war, in 1943 the Defense department ordered 1,000, 20-inch, apartment sized electric ranges.

[16] (Photos) As is common with many corporations, the Malleable Iron range company applied for and was granted numerous patents for its products over the course of its existence.