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Title: Historical review of Chicago and Cook county and selected biography. A.N. Waterman ... ed. and author of Historical review
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Waterman, Arba N. (Arba Nelson), 1836-1917
Subjects: Chicago (Ill.) -- History Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography Cook County (Ill.) -- History Cook County (Ill.) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Pennsyl-vania, for whom he opened the first analytical laboratory to be estab-lished in connection with iron or steel works in America. Whilethus employed he joined the Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, serv-ing in the Civil war as private, sergeant, captain (in command ofCamp Curtin (Harrisburg), and mustering officer for the state ofPennsylvania. After the war Mr. Hunt was appointed superintendent of theexperimental Bessemer steel works at Wyandotte, Michigan, whichwas controlled by a number of iron companies (of which the Cambriawas one), and in this capacity had charge of the first Bessemer steelplant operated in America. In May, 1866, he returned to the homeworks to become superintendent of the steel business of the CambriaIron Company, at Johnstown, continuing thus for several years. In1871 he assisted George Fritz, chief engineer of the company, indesigning and erecting their Bessemer plant, of which, on its com-pletion, he assumed charge, remaining in the employ of the Cambria
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■v?j. .-If r^-AZL ^^vwvvrVwJ^ THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LEIWX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONSB L CHICAGO AND COOK COUNTY 911 Iron Company until August, 1873, when he removed to Troy, NewYork. He there entered the employ of John A. Griswold & Com-pau) as superintendent of their Bessemer works, and later was madegeneral superintendent of their entire plant, known as the Albany &Rensselaer Iron and Steel Works and later as the Troy Steel andIron Co. In this position he remained until April i, 1888. In these various connections, covering a period of more thantwenty years, Mr. Hunt acquired high standing as one of the pioneersin the manufacture of Bessemer, steel The earliest steel rails man-ufactured in the United States on a commercial scale were turned outunder his direction at the Cambria plant and it was with a nationalreputation that he came to Chicago, in 1888, to establish the engi-neering house which he still guides and develops. The principaloffice of Robert W. Hunt &am

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