Griffin Street, the former manufacturing site of Wayne Pump. From the archives of The News-Sentinel, written by MICHAEL HAWFIELD... "Silvanus Freelove Bowser often recalled how one cold morning in 1885 he went to his Fort Wayne well to draw water for his wife. The mist rising from the 70-foot well froze on the ropes, making the task of hauling the bucket very uncomfortable. Later, thinking about better ways to raise water from a well, the idea came to him of a simple pump tha