Date: 1879
At all events, the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Com pany was incorporated March 3, 1834, and in the fol lowing April the company was organized by the election of Josiah Barber, Richard Lord and Luke Risley, as directors, and Charles Hoyt, as agent.  The buildings and premises at the foot of Alabama street consist of two brick foundries, each one hun dred feet square, and one two-story machine shop, forty by two hundred feet in size.  The company manufactures car, bridge and general castings, and makes a specialty of casting water and gas pipe.