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Theo D. Morgan  


THEO. D. MORGAN, superintendent of the Sharon Iron Works, was born in New Castle-on-Tyne, England, February 24, 1853, and is a son of  David and Elizabeth Morgan, natives of Wales. In 1856 the family immigrated to Pittsburgh, where David was a manager of iron mills about thirty years. He is now a resident of Sharon, and connected with the Sharon Iron Works. Our subject grew up in Pittsburgh, and learned the iron business in that city. He took a scientific course and was graduated in chemistry from Mount Union College, Ohio, in 1874. For one year he was one of the writers on the American Manufacturer of Pittsburgh. Mr. Morgan was assistant superintendent of the Baugh Rolling Mills of Detroit three years; superintendent of the Judson Rolling Mill, Oakland, Cal., one year; had charge of the steel department of the Pennsylvania Iron & Steel Works one year, and was manager of the Chess. Cook & Co. steel mill of the same city a short time. In April, 1887, he came to Sharon to accept the position of superintendent of the Sharon Iron Works, which he has since filled. He is one of the inventors and patentees of an improved machine for the manufacture of wire nails on a cut-nail machine, and also of an improved reversing valve for regenerative gas furnaces and several other improvements on gas furnaces. Mr. Morgan was married August 21, 1875, to  Miss Jennie M. White,  of Glenwood, Pittsburgh, Penn., who is the mother of two children,  Minnie and Lottie. He is a Republican in politics, a member of the Masonic order and A. O. U. W., and the family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church. p 744

History of Mercer County, 1888 page 744;  Transcribed and Submitted by Marjorie Henninge



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