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Cambria Iron Company
| Name | Cambria Iron Company |
| Ortssitz | Philadelphia (Penns.) |
| Straße | South Fourth Street 218 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eisenwerks-Unternehmen |
| Anmerkungen | Lage (1896): Harrison Building, Südwest-Ecke Fifteenth und Market Strrets. 1876: E. Y. Townsend, Präsident; Dr. Charles Stewart Wurts, Viziepräsident; John T. Kille, Sekretär und Finanzleiter; D. J. Morrell, General-Manager. Werke in Johnstown (1876) und Hollidaysburg (1896), siehe diese. |
| Quellenangaben | [Ironworks of the United States (1876) 20+87+114+117] [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 155] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1852 |
Gründung |
| 1853 |
Der Bau von vier Koks-Hochöfen beginnt |
| 1869 |
Errichtung eines Bessemer-Stahlwerks |
| 1871 |
Verkauf der ersten Stahlschienen |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Betrieb von Eisenhüttenwerken |
1876 |
[Ironworks of the U.S. (1876)] |
1876 |
[Ironworks of the U.S. (1876)] |
Siehe betriebene Werke! |
Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| ZEIT | 1891 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | This Company was chartered under the general laws of the State in the year 1852. The purpose was to operate four old
fashioned charcoal furnaces, located in and about Johnstown, at which period the early manufacturer of iron saw a great future for the industry. Coal, iron and limestone were abundant, and the extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad would enable them to find a ready market for their products. In 1853 the constructions of four coke furnaces were commenced. England was then shipping rails into this country under a low duty, and the iron industry, then in its infancy, was struggling for existence. The furuaces at Johnstown labored under great difficulties in the years between 1852 and 1861, and the Cambria Iron Company after many reverses aud failures had finally succeeded in establishing itself. When the war came and with it the Morrill tariff of 1861 a greater field was opened up. A new era in the manufacture of iron and steel was about to dawn upon the American people. From an infant industry in the United States, struggling for existence, as it had been for a century past, suddenly became the greatest of our industries, and astonished the world by its magnitude. The first experiment in this country in the manufacture of pneumatic steel was made in 1857 at the Cambria Iron Works by Mr. William Kelly, and in a large sense the steel industry must be regarded as of American origin, though to Mr. Bessemer is due the invention of the ingenious machinery by which the discovery is now so wonderfully applied. The Cambria Iron Compauy commenced the erection of Bessemer Works in 1869, and sold its first steel rails in 1871, at one hundred and five dollars per ton. The immense plant has been gradually expanded from the
original rolling mill and four old style blast furuaces, into its present wonderful proportions. The Philadelphia offices of the Company are at 218 South Fourth street. Mr. E. T. Townsend the President, was one of the original organizers of the Company in 1855. Mr. Powell Stackhouse, Vice-President; Mr. J. Y. Townsend, Second Vice-President. |
| QUELLE | [Philadelphia and popular Philadelphians (1891) 155] |
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